I don't know about you, but I'm a huge fan of crazy text effects.
I was just playing around in Photoshop,
trying to recreate some of the ones that I've seen and I came up with this.
You can follow along with me
by clicking the link down below where you can get the free project file.
The best part about this is that it's editable
so you can edit it, change the text any time you like.
Okay. Number one, go to A4.
Let's just do an A4 poster.
Let me choose this nice dark
black color here and I've got this texture that is just here.
Create it for an image in Unsplash would just bring that
and turn it to screen.
Bring the opacity to about that.
We don't want it to be fully black in the background.
Let's just lock that.
Next, we're going to type in a text and I'm going to show you
a really cool feature about Photoshop.
Slick lets just type in slick.
And then a house like this is also go bold.
I'm choosing the Hemi at the moment.
This form is unreal.
That's just adding to that across everywhere. Okay, stop.
Before you do anything else, we actually need to make sure that this is editable.
And I don't just mean smart objects.
We're going to do something slightly different.
We're going to right click and yes, we are going to get this smart object.
So right click smart object, if you don't know what that does,
essentially means that when you double click on that,
we can still edit this in a new sort of tab.
So any changes we made to this layer won't affect the original.
So it's very nondestructive.
But the only problem with smart objects is that if we wanted to create
a few of them, they will generate different instances of that one text file.
So you can't change them all very easily.
So what if we want to just be able to double click
and change the text easily and to apply across many layers?
Then we need to create a linked smart object.
Now, to do this right
click on the smart object or even go into the properties panel here.
If you don't see that in Windows and Properties, we're going to say convert
to linked
and it's going to do this crazy thing, it's going to ask us to save it some way.
We're just going to say in this folder text file
now you'll see that there's a little link icon on there and that means it's worked.
Okay. This is where the fun really happens.
We're going to create a few copies of this and do some messing around.
Come on. J always duplicates it.
We're going to just copy it once or twice at once.
It's fine.
Hide the bottom one here, slide the copy and we're going to go to filter
and down to Liquify.
You all know what Liquify does is it just messes around with the tags.
So we're going to just mess around with it as much as possible.
Not too much.
So it goes too crazy. We just wanted to work.
It's want to get some tears of text coming down the way that
Jane, this is I'm just like, you know, sliding it down ever so slightly.
I'm not going too crazy with it.
I'm just being very careful.
But if you do mess up, it's fine.
You can go back by going to the reconstructed tool.
No, take you back.
Okay, so we'll just bring this down slightly.
I'm trying to keep the lines quite vertical here.
Awesome. I like that.
The next thing we're going to do is go to Blur.
Now, this is slightly different to normal cause your blades or any of the blades
that motions.
We're going to go to Filter Blur Gallery, not blade,
but gallery and then go to field blurred.
Now this allows us to select points in the text
or the file that you're blurring to blur.
So you see this point we can drag this down here and we've got this slider.
We can increase the blur.
However, if we just did this, then all of it gets blurred.
So we need to make another point.
We're going to make another point up here, and you can see that I can set the blur
as a gradient.
It's kind of like a mesh that you use in Adobe Illustrator,
but the general rule of thumb is
you want it to be less blurry at the top and more blurry at the bottom.
So in these little parts here, we're going to create some big blur
like so I kind of like that.
So we're just going to press. Okay, okay.
There's the first bit done.
The next thing we're going to do is repeat that process, change a few things.
So hide the first one,
go down to the bottom one, bring that back, go to filter Liquify.
I'm just going to do the same thing.
It's important to have a couple of different ones
here to make this effect look cool. Bring that down.
We're going to go to the Blur again.
The reason why I'm not copying over exactly is because the difference
is, is what's going to be seen to blur the gallery field.
Blur same again.
Just get all these parts real blurry.
Now the cool thing about the field
is that we've got a lot of different variables in the side.
We've got like light bouquet that we can adjust and change.
We've even got the vocal color,
but I'm not really focused too much on that right now.
I just want to get these parts to work pretty nicely.
But you can't really go too wrong with this
if you think you've gone a bit wrong
or you want to change it slightly on the Liquify or the Blur
because it's a linked smart object, nothing really is final,
nothing is destroyed and you can go back and edit it.
So you see Liquify here, I'm going to double click on that and press.
Okay, that's fine.
I will just bring this down and this is slightly kind of boom.
Is that okay?
This is where things go crazy.
Let's start with blending options.
So right click blending options, we're going to create an outer glow.
Now, I've already got a preset here
because it made it easier for me, but essentially we want a bit of noise.
We want it to be not too opaque.
So opacity is set to around 30 because is going to be doubling these over
one the size to be pretty good.
And I've chosen a pink, pink and blue.
So cyan and magenta work really well.
It gives it a futuristic feel, but with the integral,
we want it to look like it is, you know, glowing from the outside.
And also it's a light source.
So that's the reason why we're doing the inner glow.
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Okay, Now that we've done the first one, we need to go ahead and do the second.
But an easy way of doing it is by right clicking on Slick
and copying the layer style to copy layer style.
We're going to paste the lifestyle in, but if we duplicate back here, we're
going to change the color very easily, just down to a nice blue
green, just slightly green on both ends to be exact.
Just mess around with it.
Now when you've done that and you select both them to come back,
you get this really cool image, but it's not finished yet.
We're going to rank these and we're going to go ahead and convert to Smart object.
I'm going to duplicate the first one, get rid of it,
then we're going to take these two and convert them to a smart object.
I'm going to duplicate it again.
Now with this new copy, we're going to create some noise.
So we're going to go to filter noise and add some in.
I just use a little bit like so just to make it look good,
you can see that we wanted to have a bit of noise.
It gives it that more textured feel.
Then we're going to duplicate it.
So Command J you'll see it looks a bit weird.
So what we do is in the blending options from blend mode, go blend and
down to linear burn, and that will create more contrast in these colors for us.
So it's pretty good already, but even more tayshia
we can bring in a paper texture like so just bring it in press.
Okay, we're going to just bring this to the front.
I got this paper to show of unsplash, then we can just go ahead and multiply it
and it will give it that time. Look.
So it looks like it's underneath the paper.
It's been printed on top and it makes the colors a bit more muted.
The whites are all off white. It's really nice.
So now what we're going to do
is check to make sure that this is all fully editable.
Still, let me double click this and we're going to put in Nice.
That's what this text is and we're going to save that.
And when we come back, you'll see that it's actually taken hold of the change.
That too, which is great.
I do prefer the slick one here.
Now, all that's left is to group these or you can manage them,
but I would just group them called the Main type.
I'm going to bring it to the middle.
We can bring an adjustment layer in so you can't see it.
But I'm going to bring in a curves.
All we can do is try out the whole document.
We can add more contrast, take it away if we need to as well.
We can even go crazy like this and create
really wild, abstract colors, which I don't think we should do.
I mean, getting that brightness down ever so slightly will give it a nicer
look and voila, you have your text effect.
This can be done with any text effect too,
and it's just really fun to play around with quotes and posts.
Or if you just need some sort of title, this is it.
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