Glass text effect Tutorial

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Photoshop
Date added:
09-08-07
Level:
Beginner
Author:
Celox
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Intro:

In this adobe photoshop tutorials you'll learn on how to make a nice glass text effect with simply using some blending options and brushing.

Download the image of the IPOD I'm using here.

Step 1:

Make new file I used dimensions 500x200px, This effect HAS to be on a big text, so you have to transform it a bit using free transform (Ctrl+T).

Type your preferred text, I used font Corporate HQ, and resized it vertically.

Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect

Doesn't matter which color you have now cause will we'll change that later in this tutorial.

Step 2:

Add these blending options, (Right click text layer > blending options).

I cut the images otherwise it eats up more space on the server, which you don't need to add these blending options.

Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect
Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect
Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect

DON'T hit ok yet!

The reason I skipped the outer glow out of the logical order, because I want to show you how much of a difference it makes! So now change the outer glow.

Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect

Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect

Step 3:

Make a new layer (Ctrl+shift+N), name this layer Shiny, and set the mode to "Overlay" and opacity to 62% in the layers window.

Get the brush tool Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect select a soft brush with 184 px or something like that. Select white as foreground (D to reset colors, X to switch colors).

Click ONCE in the left bottom corner, and do the rest to your likings Happy , I did almost the whole bottom and a bit of the E as you can see.

You can allways go back with Alt+Ctrl+z.

Me end result:

Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect

Some other colors:

Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect

Free photoshop cs2 tutorial - Glass text effect

Thanks for reading, if you learned from your tutorial please leave some feedback thanks!

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