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Tutorials on creating metal type abound online, as do variations on simple liquid effects. Most are fairly

short, offering a good foundation for the reader on how certain effects are achieved but fail to take that

extra step (or few steps) to make the piece really shine. Once you have an idea of how different

techniques fit together in a piece, it is fairly easy to combine, say, the process to create metal and theprocess to create liquid to create something that exists in both sides of the FX map.

1

Create a new image with the following attributes:

Width: 11 inches

Height: 11 inches

Resolution: 300 ppi, 8bit

Background Color: White

Color Mode: RGB (Important or it won'r work)

2

Since the desired effect is to appear liquefied, a font that

appears to have been made with a crayon or round brush will

work perfectly. Select the Type tool and open the Character

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palette from the Options bar. The font I’ve chosen is called ‘WallowHmkBold’… if you do not have this

installed on your system just use the font of your choice. The attributes for the characters are seen below:

3

Note that the color is gray in the #666666 range and NOT

stark black.

Type a word across the face of the image.

4

Rasterize the type layer, then paint a few additional gray dots around the type.



5

Open the Channels palette and duplicate a channel…

the Blue channel will work fine. Go to Image>Adjustments>Invert.

6

Open the Filter menu and select Blur>Gaussian Blur. First, blur

the channel at a 25 pixel radius. Blur the channel again at a radius of 15 pixels.



7

Turn on all the other layers (Click the eye to the left

of RGB)

Turn off the Blue copy channel, but don’t delete it… you’ll need it in a moment or two.

Click on the letters RGB to make sure that th RGB channel is active.

8

Go to

Filter>Render>Li

ghting Effects.

Set it up as

outlined in the

image below…

be sure to select

the Blue copy



channel as the Texture Channel.

Make sure you change the light angle and shape on the left by dragging the 4 dots

9

The result of all that is a pretty

basic bevel, and yes, you could do pretty much the same thing with a layer style. Some habits die hard,

however, and I like the end result better when channels come into play. What can I say? I’ve been doing it

this way since at least PS 6, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!

10



Duplicate the text layer

and go to Filter>Sketch>Chrome. Set up the reflections as seen in the dialog box below:

11

Now you can play with Layer Styles a bit. Open the Layer Styles dialog box and select Bevel/Emboss.

Enter the following settings… note that the Shadow color is again gray in the #666666 range and not

black. Make sure the Gloss Contour is changed to cone.Once done click OK.



12

Make a Curves adjustment layer and Levels adjustment layer with the settings seen here:

13

Against a black background the shine really comes out.



16

You can now throw the text into any image you so choose. In the following

example, I’ve blurred a tech-style background, placed the type in that document, then placed a duplicate

of the blurred layer above the text. The Blend mode of the top layer is changed to Soft Light to serve as

reflections off the type, or making the type appear transparent allowing you to see the backgroundthrough it. I’ll let you decide what is actually happening.

That’s it for now. Until next time, I’ll see you at ActionFx.com. Take care!

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Shining Neon Text Effect in Photoshop

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tutorial

Since we released Abduzeedo's new design, we've received quitea few emails asking for a tutorial showing how to reproduce the our logo

effect. Actually since the first time we used that effect, on the SparklingHot Girl in Photoshop tutorial, a lot of people have asked us how to dothat effect. So in this very short tutorial we will show you how to do thatin Photoshop.

Step 1

Create a new document, use the size you want, it doesn't matter. Then fill the background with a very

dark gray, #111111.

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Step 2

Now place your logo in the document. Duplicate the layer and hide it, we will need it later on.



Step 3

Now with the visible layer, lets apply a Layer Style. Go to Layer>Layer Style>Gradient Overlay. Then

use Normal for the Blend Mode, and 60% Opacity. For the color use a gradient with red, yellow, green,

and blue.



Step 4

Now let's add some blur, go to Filter>Blur>Gaussiam Blur. Use 4.0 pixels for the Radius.



Step 5

Make the duplicated layer visible and go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use this time 1 pixel for the

Radius.



Step 6

Go to Layer>Layer Style>Blending Options. Change the Fill Opacity to 0% on the AdvancedBlending. Then go to Outer Glow. Use Color Dodge for the Blend Mode, 50% Opacity, White for the

Color, and 18 pixels for the Size. After that, if your logo is not white, you can go to Color Overlay and

use white for the color.



Step 7

Now group this single layer and rename the group to "Over" then change the blend mode to Color

Dodge. After that you can group everything again and rename it to "Logo".

Conclusion

With this technique you will be able to create a nice neo effect to pretty much all kinds of backgrounds.

The only thing you will have to do is change some opacities depending on the color of the background.

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