Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create icy, frozen
text and reflect it on a sheet of ice. This tutorial is an update to one I did quite
awhile ago on an earlier version of Photoshop. I provided this ice background, so you can
follow along. Its link is located in my video's description or project files. Click the New
Layer icon to make a new layer. We'll fill the empty layer with black, but first, if
your foreground and background colors aren't black and white respectively, press "D" on
your keyboard. Since black is your foreground color, press Alt +Delete on Windows or Option
+ Delete on a Mac. Open your Horizontal Type Tool and list of fonts. I'm using "Runy Tunes
Revisited NF Regular". If you'd like to use it, I provided its link, as well. I'm using
a size of 255 points, however, depending on the characteristics of the font you choose
and the amount of characters in your text, you may want to use a different point size.
The anti-aliasing is "Sharp", the alignment is "Centered" and the color is white. If the
color box isn't white, click on it and when the Color Picker opens, just pick white. Click
on your document and type out your text. To center it, open your Move Tool and press Ctrl
or Cmd + A to select it all. Click the "Align Horizontal Centers" icon and then deselect
it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D. To slide your text down or up, press the Down or Up arrow
on your keyboard. Make sure you leave room under it for its reflection. Shift-click on
the black layer to make it active, as well. Click the icon at the upper, right corner
of the Layers panel and click "Convert to Smart Object". This will allow us to replace
the text without having to redo many of the effects that we'll be adding to it. Go to
Filter, Pixelate and Crystallize. Make the Cell Size: 7 and click OK. Open your Channels
panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and Channels. Click the circular icon to make
a selection of all the tonal values of your image. Go to Select and Save Selection. Name
it "Text" and click OK or press Enter or Return. Then, deselect it. Open your Layers panel
and go to Image, Image Rotation and 90 degrees Clockwise. Go to Filter, Stylize and Wind.
The Method is "Wind" and the Direction is "From the Right". Then click OK. To enhance
the effect, press Ctrl or Cmd + F to repeat the filter and click OK. Then, repeat it once more.
If we rotate the text back to its normal position, you can see that the wind effect
retained its horizontal angle, which we don't want.
To make the wind effect rotate with the text,
we need to make the entire layer into another Smart Object.
Go to Image, Image Rotation and 90 degrees Counter Clockwise.
Now, the wind effect is vertical, which is what we want. Go back to Filter, Pixelate
and Crystallize. This time, make the Cell Size: 3. Then, click OK or press Enter or
Return. If you want to edit or change your text without having to redo the effects that
we added to it up this point, double-click the thumbnail of the Smart Object to open
it. Then, double-click this Smart Object to it. Double-click the large "T" to highlight
the original text and type in your new text.
Click the checkmark to accept it and click the small "x" to close this Smart Object.
When you see this panel, click "Yes" to save the changes.
As you can see, the Smart Object immediately updated itself with the new text.
Now, close this Smart Object and again, click "Yes". I'll press Ctrl or Cmd + Z to undo the last step.
Open your Channels panel and click the circular icon again to make a selection
of all the tonal values of you image. Open back your Layers panel and click the New Layer
icon to make a new layer. We'll fill the selection with white and since white is the background
color, press Ctrl or Cmd + Delete. Then, deselect it. Hide the black and white text layer by
clicking off its eyeball icon. Click the "fx" icon and click "Inner Glow".
Make the Blend Mode: "Dissolve" and the Opacity: 75%. Click the color box and in the Color Picker, type
in: 74C7FB. Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
The Source is: Edge, the Choke is 14% and the Size is 15 pixels. Then, click OK.
Make a composite snapshot or your image by pressing
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E on Windows or Cmd + Shift +Option + E on a Mac.
Open your Channels panel and Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the text channel that you saved earlier
to make a selection of your text. Open back your Layers panel and click the Layer Mask
icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the composite snapshot. Click the
chain-link to unlink the layer and the layer mask. Now, we can move, resize and effect
either of them independently of each other. Click the layer to make it active. Go to Filter,
Blur and Gaussian Blur. Blur it 1 pixel and click OK. Go back to Filter, Pixelate and
Crystallize. Make the Cell Size: 4 and click OK or press Enter or Return.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the layer mask to make a selection of it. With the layer still active, press
Ctrl or Cmd + J to cut the selected image from the layer and copy it onto its own layer.
Go to Filter and Filter Gallery.
Open the Artistic folder and click "Plastic Wrap".
Make the Highlight Strength: 6, the Detail: 11 and the Smoothness: 4. Then, click OK.
Open the Adjustments panel and click the Hue/Saturation icon
or you can click the Adjustment layer icon
and click "Hue/Saturation". We want to restrict the adjustment layer to effect just
the one layer beneath it in the Layers panel. To do this, click the Clipping Mask icon.
Or, you can press Ctrl +Alt + G on WIndows or Cmd +Option + G on a Mac.
Check "Colorize" and for the Hue, type in: 199 and the Saturation: 50.
Merge the adjustment layer with the cutout text by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + E.
Let's name the layer "Text".
Press Ctrl or Cmd + J to make a copy of it and name the copy, "Reflection". Go to Edit, Transform
and "Flip Vertical". Press and hold "Shift" as you drag the reflection down below the
bottom of the other text. Go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Blur it 3 pixels and click
OK or press Enter or Return. Reduce its opacity to 20%. Next, we'll fade out the reflection
on the background. Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask next to the reflection.
Open your Gradient Tool and make sure your the Linear Gradient icon is picked. Click
the gradient bar to open the Gradient Editor. Click the "Foreground to Transparent" preset
box and click OK. Go to the bottom of your document and press and hold Shift as you drag
up the gradient line to approximately here and release. Next, we'll get rid of the icicles
that extend below the ice surface. Make "Layer 1" active. This is your text without the icicles.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a Layer Mask next to your text. Place your cursor
halfway up the icicles and press and hold Shift as you drag the gradient line to the
bottom of your text. Then, release. I'd like to slide the reflection down a little to make
the ice under the text look thicker. To do this, scroll up the Layers panel and make
the Reflection layer active. Press "v" to open your Move Tool
and press the Down arrow on your keyboard.
This is Marty form Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!