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Design an Eye-Catching Cloud Text Effect in 3 Easy Steps with Photoshop

By James QuNovember 1, 20233 Mins Read
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Elevate your design skills with our beginner-friendly tutorial on creating a captivating cloud text effect in just three simple steps. Learn how to use custom brush sets and brush options to achieve this striking result.

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Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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OK Let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Cloud Brush

Smoke Brush

Hot Air Balloon

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1400px * 700px, grab the Gradient Tool and fill the background layer with a light blue gradient:

Click to enlarge the following screenshot to reveal the colour code:

Use the cloud brush set you downloaded, paint some white cloud on a new layer and we will use this as our background:

Step 2

We will type some texts onto our canvas, I used the “Lucida Handwriting” font that comes with Photoshop:

Load the smoke brush into Photoshop and use the following set:

Press “F5” to bring up the brush options window, apply the following setting:

Shape Dynamics

Make sure you tick the “Smoothing” and “Protect Texture” option.

Use the brush, gently paint over the text as shown below, adjust the brush size accordingly:

Turn off the original text layer, and you will have the following effect:

Then on this newly painted cloud layer, apply the following “Bevel and Emboss” layer blending effect:

and here is the effect so far:

Step 3

We will add some retouches to this effect. To make text slightly sharpen, we flatten the image and apply the following “Unsharpen Mask” filter (Filter > Sharpen > Unsharpen Mask):

We can paint some cloud under the text, just to make the text look like floating above the cloud:

Load the hot air balloon PSD File into Photoshop and add some hot air balloons into the image:

Finally we can use the same brush in step 2 to add some extra cloud texture around the text:

and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day!

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James is a seasoned Photoshop expert with over 25 years of experience, mastering the software since its 5.0 version. As the driving force behind PSD Vault, he authors the majority of its in-depth tutorials and insightful articles.

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9 Comments

  1. John Shaver on November 26, 2012 10:49 AM

    Looks pretty cool. Check out my cloud tutorial too when you get a chance :)

    http://www.designpanoply.com/blog/realistic-aged-cloud-text-effect-using-photoshop-brushes

  2. shamim on November 26, 2012 9:38 PM

    Thanks a lot…….
    it is exactly what I was searching for. Awesome tut. thanks for sharing.

  3. hasan on November 26, 2012 9:39 PM

    Wow, a terrible tutorial with a horrible end result…nice and thanks to share..

  4. OmerErcan on November 29, 2012 7:23 PM

    share a better one

  5. Stacy Summers on November 30, 2012 6:27 PM

    wow! cool tutorial!

  6. Jon Celeste on December 5, 2012 1:00 AM

    Super tips thanks guys.

  7. Nur Shafini Che Ahmad on March 9, 2013 5:22 AM

    how to load brush???

  8. Mohd.Yasin on April 24, 2013 1:47 AM

    The Smoke Brush Link is Not Working..Pls Help…Alternate Link Or Any Help..:) Thanks.

  9. ???????? on October 11, 2013 4:07 AM

    you all suck at photoshop im the best graphic designer on this side of the mississippi

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