 | 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:
- Go Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur, use 8 as radius and click ok.
- Go Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur, use 5 as radius and click ok.
- Go Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur, use 3 as radius and click ok.
- Go Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur, use 1 as radius and click ok.
- So far the result should look like below:
- Return to the layers palette and select your text2 layer.
- Go to Filter -> Render -> Lighting Effects, if it prompts to rasterize the layer, click ok.
- Now apply the following changes in the lighting effects dialog box and click ok
- Go to Select -> Modify -> Contract and put 1 pixels and click ok.
- Go Select -> Inverse and press Delete button in your keyboard.
- Press CTRL + D to deselect.
- Right click on Text2 layer, choose duplicate layer name it Plastic and click ok.
- Go to Filter -> Artistic -> Plastic Wrap, apply the following options and click ok.
- Go Layer -> Layer Style -> Drop Shadow and click ok with the default values.
- Go Image -> Adjustment -> Hue/Saturation or press CTRL + U, tick colorize and apply the following or any you wish:
