Smooth Looking Gel Text
Author: 2008-01-18 15:46:10 From:
Gel Text the easy way: |
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Start with a new 400x400 image with a white background for this tutorial. Grab your text tool and make your text ( I used the "impact" font with a size of 500 and a RGB of 181,111,0 Note: feel free to use your own colors ). Once you have your text done go to Layer/Type/Render Layer to render your text. Name this layer base. Now Ctrl+Click on this layer to select it. Once you have done that create a new layer above that one by clicking on the create new layer tab  . Name this new layer top. And switch to that layer by clicking it once. You know you are working in that layer when it turns blue in the layer menu. | 
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Now go to Select/Modify/Contract and set the value to 10. Choose a lighter color of the one you are using ( I changed my RGB to 252,196,43 ). Now using your paint bucket fill the selection. | | 
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Now go to Filter/Blur/Guassian Blur and choose a setting of 5. | 
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OK, this next step is where we are going to give our text a nice beveled look so look at the settings carefully. Go to Layer/Effects/Bevel and Emboss and choose the settings that I have on the left here.
Highlight- Mode=Screen, Color is White, Opacity is 100%
Shadow- Mode=Multiply, Color is White, Opacity is 100%
Style- is set to Emboss
Angle is 120, with Use Global Angle "checked'
Depth is 15, with the radio box next to it set to Up
Blur is set to 2
Click O.K.
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If all the steps above were followed you should now have a picture like the one on the left here. |  | 6.
Now to finish it off just give it a nice drop shadow to the base layer and tweak it out however you see fit to give it all the final touches. |  | 7.
Here is one with another layer added and some noise added to the outer edges. |
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