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11 February 2012
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I love photoshop! it is most widely known for photo manipulation. But it has so many other uses. I'm still pretty much a beginner but I'm learning new tricks everyday. it is important as a designer that I learn as much as possible so I spend many a day reading tutorials and putting them into practice. my favorite tutorials to follow are ones for creating funky text effects so today i've been messing around with text effects and these two images are the finished products.

 





 

In a future post I'll compile a list of some of the best sites to visit for Photoshop tutorials!

Have a great Saturday guys.
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26 January 2012
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I recently got asked on Twitter to create a tutorial on how to create text like the example below.

This text was achieved in Photoshop by using clipping masks and an image. That may sound complicated but today I am going to show you how to achieve this look simply and quickly.

First of all you need to create a new document in Photoshop by navigating to File>New and filling in your required dimensions and background colour.

Then select the type tool by pressing the T in the left hand side toolbar. Along the top of your screen you can select the font, size and colour. It does not matter which colour you choose as it will be covered by the patterned image. The font I used in this tutorial is Myriad Pro Bold.

 



Next you need to navigate to File>Open and select the image you've chosen for the text.



 

When it is open, press Ctrl+An and then Ctrl+C

 



 

Now you need to paste it onto the text layer we created earlier. To do this click on the tab with the text layer and press Ctrl+V, make sure the image covers all of the text.

Now you need to navigate to the layers palette on the right hand side of the page (see image below). You need to right click on the layer above the text layer and select 'create clipping mask'.

 



 

That is all there is to it. You just need to save the image now. To do that just navigate to File>Save As.

See how simple it is? If you have any problems just tweet me or comment here.
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21 January 2012
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So yesterday I showed you how to create letterpress effect text in Photoshop and today I'm going to show you how to create Gold metallic effect 3D text. Like the letterpress effect it is very easy to achieve.

So first of all we create a new canvas in our background colour of choice. I chose white.

Then we choose our font of choice (I chose to use Lobster again). Write your text using the colour #c7b290.



Then navigate to Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow.

Set it to the settings below.



Press OK.

Navigate to Layer>Layer Style>Inner Shadow and use the settings shown below.



Press OK.

Then lastly navigate to Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss and use the settings shown in the image below.



Press OK.

It will leave you with a beautiful 3D gold effect text like I have here.



It really is really simple but such a lovely touch. Try it out and let me know what you think.
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