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  • April 19th, 2009
Design a Super Delicious, Shining and Glossy Text Effect in Photoshop

Design a Super Delicious, Shining and Glossy Text Effect in Photoshop

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In this tutorial, I will show you the process I used to create this super delicious, shining and glossy text effect in Photoshop. In fact, I once again accidentally discovered this interesting effect while playing with Photoshop filters this afternoon and thought I could share it with you guys :)

Along the way, we will be using techniques such as layer blending options, filter effects, adjustment layers and a few photoshop tools. It’s a very simple tutorial, have a try!

Meanwhile, I have received a few enquiries about how to add colour effects onto a plain image from my past tutorial – and I decided to include the method I use to achieve the colour effect along with this tutorial. So read on if you’re interested!

Here a preview of my final result for this tutorial: (Click to enlarge)

susan-boyle-text-final1

Alternative versions:

susan-boyle-text-final-2

susan-boyle-text-final-3

Ok let’s get started!

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1200px * 800px and fill the background layer with Black. Duplicate the background layer once (Always a good habit) and grab the Gradient Tool (G) fill the duplicated layer as shown below:

1-gradient-overlay

After applying the gradient effect, duplicated this layer once and on the second duplicated layer, go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal and change the layer blending mode to “screen”.

You will have the following effect:

1-duplicate

Step 2

We can make the background a bit brighter and fresher. So go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance and apply the following settings:

Shadows

2-shadows

Midtones

2-midtones

Higtlights

2-highlights

And you will have the following effect:

2-effect2

OK that’s for our background! We can now add our text effect onto it.

Step 3

Download this font and type some text onto it, resize and position it as shown below:

I typed Susan Boyle because I was so touched and inspired by her performance on Britains Got Talent show :) Wish her all the best!

3-type

Apply the following layer blending effect to the text layer:

Drop Shadow

3-drop-shadow

Inner Shadow

3-inner-shadow

Outer Glow

3-outer-glow

Inner Glow

3-inner-glow

Bevel and Emboss

3-bevel

Contour

3-contour

Gradient Overlay

3-grad

And you will have the following effect:

3-effect2

Step 4

Load the selection of the text layer (ctrl + left-click the thumbnail image of the text effect on the layer palette):

4-left-click

4-load-sel

Then create a new layer called “fibre” (make sure you maintain the selection) and fill it with White colour:

4-fill-2

Then go to Filter > Render > Fibers and apply the following settings:

4-fibre

Then go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and apply the following settings:

gau-blur

Change the layer blending mode of this “fiber” layer to “lighten” and you will have the following effect:

4-effect2

To add some lighting variation onto it, we duplicate the “Fiber” layer once more and change the blending mode of the duplicated layer to “overlay”:

4-effect-2

Step 5

Now we can add some colour onto our text! To do this, load the selection of the text layer using the method described previously, create a new layer called “colour” on top of all layers:

5-layer

Maintain the selection of the text layer, grab a soft brush with colour of your choice and simply paint over the layer. You will see because we have a selection of the text, you will paint only within the selection not any other area:

5-paint

Change the layer blending mode of this layer to “color” and you will have the following effect:

5-effect2

To add a bit more shining effect to finish off the text, duplicate the “colour” layer once and change the blending mode of the duplicated layer to “overlay”.

Here is the final effect: (click to enlarge)

susan-boyle-text-final1

Ok that’s it for this tutorial! You can of course add some of your own texture or filter effect and see what the end results are!

I added some textures on the background just to decorate it a bit: (click to enlarge)

susan-boyle-text-final-2

Alternatve Colour

susan-boyle-text-final-3

Hope you enjoy this tutorial, drop me a comment if you have any question, I will try my best to help you out.

Cheers and have a nice day!

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