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  1. How To Make Cool Text In Photoshop

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In this post, you'll find 30 beautiful, high-quality Adobe Photoshop tutorials from top tutorial. This beginner-level tutorial allows you to create text that glows. Apr 8, 2018 - In this post, we feature some of the best Photoshop text effect tutorials that will teach you step-by-step process to transform plain text into.

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Step 1

Start with a blank layer and some text, this will work for shapes too.

Step 2

Right click/Cmd click on the layer name in the layers pallette. Select rasterize layer. Ctrl/Cmd click on the layer thumbnail to select the type.

Step 3

Create a new blank layer.

Edit>stroke. I added a 6 pixel stroke here. Make the location center.

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Click ok.

Ctrl/Cmd click on the layer thumbnail to select the new stroke.

How To Make Cool Text In Photoshop

Step 4

In the layer palette, turn off the bottom layer, you should see the outline now.
Using the gradient tool: foreground to background linear – Black to white. apply a gradient to the selection.

Step 5

Now apply the stroke again, this time 1 Pixel and set to outside.

Step 6

To make the gradient look like metal, use our favorate curves trick.

Image>adjust>curves, use a similar curve to what is shown here.

Step 7

Now display the bottom layer again and fill with a color or a gradient to get this result.

Step 8

For a little extra depth apply a layer style to the outline, use a dropshadow.

Step 9

Here is the result.

Step 10

Another variation is to hide the fill and just use the outline with a dropshadow.

Step 11

Here is yet another variation. This is just the previous image inverted. Ctrl/Cmd+I Note for this to work, you must flatten the image first.

Step 12

Here is another variation. Play around with this effect and have fun.

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