Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create this powerful
iron emblem using your own text. This tutorial is in 2 parts. In Part 1, we'll create custom,
recessed text inside an iron frame and in Part 2, we'll complete our emblem with a starburst
shield, deep shadows and custom lighting. I provided this bare metal texture, so you
can follow along. Its link is located in my video's description or project files. First,
we'll make a copy of it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J. Next, we'll create guide lines to
find the exact center of our document. If you're working on version CC or later, go
to View and New Guide Layout. If you're working on a version earlier than CC, you won't see
New Guide Layout, but I'll show you what to do in a moment. Under Columns and Rows, type
in: 2. Then, click OK. For versions earlier than CC, click New Guide. The Vertical or
Horizontal orientation will be ticked. For the Position, type in 50% and click OK or
press Enter or Return. Go back to View and "New Guide". This time, tick the other orientation
and as before, type in 50%.
We're ready to set our text, but before we do that,
if your foreground and background colors aren't black and white respectively, press "D" on your
keyboard. Open your Horizontal Type Tool. Open your font list and pick a font. I'm using
"Wide Latin Regular". If you'd like to use it, I provided its link, as well. I'll temporarily
make its size approximately 90 points, Smooth and center alignment.Click on your document
and type out out your text. If you want to squeeze in or stretch out your text, open
your Move Tool and press Ctrl or Cmd + T to open your Transform Tool. Press and hold Alt
or Option + Shift as you drag the Transform out or in. Then, press Enter or Return.
Reduce the Fill to 40%. The Fill affects only the transparency of the graphic inside the layer,
but doesn't affect the layer styles that we'll be adding to it. Click the "fx" icon and click
"Bevel Emboss". Make the Style: Inner Bevel and the Technique: Chisel Hard. Make the Depth:
100%, the Direction: Down and the Size: 7 pixels. Then, click OK. Uncheck "Global Light"
and make the Angle: 135 degrees and the Altitude: 65 degrees. The Highlight Mode is "Screen"
and its Opacity is 90%. The Shadow Mode is Linear Burn and its opacity is 25%.Click "Inner
Shadow". The Blend Mode is Multiply and the Opacity is 57%. Uncheck Global Light and make
the Angle: 135 degrees. The Distance is 19 pixels, the Choke is 35% and the Size is 7 pixels.
Then, click OK.
Change its Blend Mode to "Hard Mix".
To save space in the Layers panel, let's collapse the text effects.
Make a new layer below the active layer by Ctrl-clicking or Cmd-clicking
on the New Layer icon. Name the layer, "Frame". Open your Rectangular Marquee Tool. Go to
the center of the guide lines and press and hold Alt or Option as you drag out a selection
surrounding your text approximately this much. We'll fill the selection with black and since
black is your foreground color, press Alt or Option + Delete. Then deselect it by pressing
Ctrl or Cmd + D. Click the eyeball icon to temporarily hide the text.
Open your "Custom Shape Tool".
At the top, choose "Shape". Make sure the Fill is black and the Stroke is nothing,
which is this symbol. Open your custom shapes. Click the gear icon to open your list of custom
shape presets and click "Shapes". When you see this message, click OK to replace your
current thumbnails with the new shapes. Click this icon, which is called, "8-point star".
Click the gear icon at the top and tick "Defined Proportions and "From Center". Go to the center-right
edge and drag out the star shape approximately this much. We'll slide it in a bit.
To do this, press "v" to open your Move Tool and press
the left arrow key on your keyboard. Make a copy of the star shape and press and hold Shift
as you drag the copy to the other side. Merge the 3 layers that comprise your frame by Shifting-clicking
on the bottom frame and pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E. Name the merged layer, "Frame" and reduce
its Fill to 0. Make your text layer visible and double-click the frame to open its Layer
Style window. Click "Bevel & Emboss". The Style is "Inner Bevel", the Technique is "Chisel
Hard" and the Depth is 75%. The Direction is "Up" and the Size is 25 pixels.
Global Light is unchecked. The Angle is 135 degrees and the Altitude is 65 degrees. The Highlight
Mode is "Color dodge" and its Opacity is 25%. The Shadow Mode is "Linear Burn" and its opacity
is 75%. Click “Contour” and click the last contour preset, “Sawtooth 1".
Then, click OK.
Collapse the effects and click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the thumbnail of the shape to make a selection of it. Go to Select, Modify
and Contract. Contract it by 23 pixels and click OK. Notice that the selection contracted
to the inside of the border. Fill the selection with black and deselect it.
Reduce the Fill to 0. Double-click Layer 2 to open its Layer Style window. Click "Inner Shadow".
The Blend Mode is Multiply and the Opacity is 80%. Global Light is unchecked and the Angle is 135 degrees.
The Distance is 10 pixels, the Choke is 0% and the Size is 16 pixels. Then, click OK.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the thumbnail of the bottom frame to make a selection of its shape. Make the
top background active and click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection
next to the active layer. Next, we'll make our frame and the text into a Smart Object,
so we can warp the entire image. Shift-click the text layer to make all the layers active
except the bottom background. Then, convert them into one Smart Object.
Open your Transform Tool and click the Warp Transform icon at the top.
Open the Custom Warp presets and click "Bulge".
For the Bend, type in minus 20. Then, click the check-mark at the top.
In Part 2, we'll finish our iron emblem.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!