Give your text a cold, hard and shiny plastic effect.

- Click here to see the video version of this tutorial.

- Open a new PSD document with the dimension of 650 x 200.

- Fill the background color with this: #F8F8C8

- Write some text with this color: #609ecd like this:

- Right click on the text layer, choose duplicate layer and name it text2, click ok.

- Hide the text layer (the one above background layer).

- Highlight text2 layer and go to Select -> Load Selection and press ok or press CTRL and click on text2 layer.

- Go to Select -> Save Selection and click on ok, without modifying anything.

- Go Channels Tab (next to the layers tab) and select Alpha 1 channel.

- Right click on Alpha 1 channel and select Duplicate, and click ok.

- So far it should look like this: