In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial I will show you how to make this great looking army style text effect.

First start by making a green gradient and drag it across the stage, then type in your text, the color does not matter, we will change that later.

I used a font called "stencil" it has kind of a army style look, and looks quite cool with the effect.

Now in the layers panel double click the text layer we just created to get to the layers styles panel, then give it the following settings.

For the last one, the pattern overlay, you will need to create a pattern first or download a photoshop pattern and import it the your photoshop patterns, just do some google search for photoshop stripe pattern and you will find some good free photoshop patterns.

Now we will make the top glossy part of the letters, so hold down ctrl and click the text layer in the layers panel to load the text selection.

Then create a new layer above and name it gloss or something, with a white color use a brush to stroke some glossiness on the letters like I did below.

Now the rest of it is just for show, but I will tell you what I did anyway, just make a copy of all the layers concerning the text, flip it using the edit -> transform -> flip vertical, move it down and bring its opacity down. this will make a mirror reflection of the text.

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