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Free Tutorials » Adobe Photoshop » Glossy Text

Create some nice vibrant glossy text.

Step 1

Start a new document, fill the background colour in with the colour #525252

Type out your text, I used the font called "Phrixus" in any colour.. it doesn't matter at this stage.

Step 1 diagram

Step 2

Bring up the blending options, first choose outer glow:

Step 2 diagram

Step 3

Gradient Overlay:

Step 3 diagram

Step 4

And Stroke and press OK:

Step 4 diagram

Step 5

This is what you should have so far:

Step 5 diagram

Step 6

Make a new layer. Hold CTRL on your keyboard and click on the text layer in the layers pallet, this should make a selection around the inner text.

Grab the elipticle marquee tool, hold ALT, drag a ovral shape by holding your left mouse button.

Step 6 diagram

Step 7

Let go of your mouse button which will produce a selection like below. Then go to [ Select > modify > contract > ] by 1 pixel.

Fill the selection in with white, set the blending mode to overlay and opacity to 87%. Press CTRL+D to deselect the selection, producing the finished text result as shown below!

Step 7 diagram

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Date added:
24.03.2005
Author:
Jack
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