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Free Tutorials » Adobe Photoshop » Fresh Gloss

Create some fresh glossy text which easily stands out.

Step 1

Type out your word, and use the font "Danube". Size 72 and "Sharp" for smoothness and font colour #ff7505.

Step 1 diagram

Step 2

Bring up the blending options for the text layer, use the below settings.

Step 2 diagram

Step 3

Make a new layer. Hold CTRL and click on the text layer in the layer pallet (as shown below). Then go to "Select > Modify > Contract > 1" and press ok. You should now have a selection like the second picture.

Step 3 diagram

Step 4

Select the gradient fill tool, "white > transparent" as shown in the image below. Drag from top to bottom.

Step 4 diagram

Step 5

Set the blending mode to "Overlay". Set the opacity to around 70% (or change it until you like how it looks). Make a back panel graphic and play around with your text. My result is below.

Step 5 diagram

Tutorial comments

17.12.2011 -

Assasin145 says …

Эээй!Тут че все американцы?

09.07.2011 -

zymse0790 says …

it poped out ... good

08.07.2011 -

mpsrct says …

Wow nice work

19.03.2011 -

eugenep says …

Great tutorial, thanks

22.09.2010 -

mattelliott39 says …

im struggling with this on a mac, get stuck at step 3. I assume that instead of ctrl, CMD is used, but modify is greyed out under the select menu. Any ideas?

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Date added:
02.10.2005
Author:
Jack
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