Learn how to create a very stylish 3d text with a few layer styles and lighting effects. Category: Text Effects

Learn how to create a very stylish 3d text with a few layer styles and lighting effects.

Step 1: Start off with a new 400 x 400 px document, press "D" on your keyboard to reset your colors. White background. Type out some text, I used the color "0068a3," and a font size of 250pt. Once you type out your text. Right click on the layer in your layers pallete and select "Rasterize Type."


Step 2: Create a selection around the text by hold Ctrl and click on the thumbnail icon of the layer in the layers pallete.


Step 3: With the selection still made, go to your channels pallete, and create a new channel, select the new channel, and fill the selection white. Deselect (Ctrl + D).


Step 4: Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (10 px).


Step 5: Image > Adjustments > Levels. The settings below should give you a crystal clear rounded effect on your text, just tweak it the settings to get it perfect for yourself.


Step 6: Now hold Ctrl and click on the thumbnail icon of the layer your working with to load the selection around the new text. Go back to the layers pallete, delete the old text layer. Create a new layer, Fill it with any color, the same blue is recommended. Deselect.


Step 7: Go back to the channels pallete, select the layer you were just working with. Load a selection around the text. Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (5px). Make sure you don't do it to much or to little, do it a few times to get this effect.


Step 8: Inverse the selection to select everything outside of the text. Select > Inverse (Ctrl + Shift + I). Select > Feather (2px) or Ctrl + Alt + D. Hit delete, and deselect.


Step 9: Go back to the layers pallete, select the layer you just made with the text on it. Filter > Render > Lighting Effects.


Step 10: Add an outer glow, and an inner glow, and there you go!

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