Tutorial #4

Today's tutorial covers how to make a Glass Text Effect.  It is quite a few steps long, many of which look really good by themselves.  I really like this one :). 

Just follow the steps in order :).

1.)  Open a New Image with the following properties.  400 x 200 pixels, White Background, 16 million colors. 

2.)  Set your background color to white.   Set the foreground color to a Light Blue:  Red 111, Green 225, Blue 225.

3.)  This effect will work with any font, I picked an angled font in this case  Abaddon 75pt.  Make sure Antialias and Floating are checked in.

4.)  We need to expand the selection field around the text a little.  To do that go to Selection then Modify then Feather.  Set the Feather option to 8pts.

5.)  Now it is time to get the first makings of a 3D look.  Apply a Hot Wax Coating, go to Image then Other then Hot Wax Coating.  Looks good huh?

6.)  Ok now go change your foreground color to even lighter blue than the first.  Lighter Blue:  Red 202   Green 244, Blue 255.

7.)  Select the Magic Wand Tool.   Set the tolerance to 35.  Now we need to select the interior of each letter or character.  Holding down the Shift key, click inside each one.  

8.)  With the interior of each character selected,  go to Image then Effects then Cutout.   Set the options box for Cutout: Opacity to 100, Blur to 5, the Shadow Color to Foreground, and the Horizontal and Vertical Offsets to -6.

9.)  Apply another Hot Wax Coating.   Go to Image then Other then Hot Wax Coating.

10.)  To make it a bit shinier we must brighten the text a little.   Go to Colors then Adjust then Hue/Saturation/Luminescence.  Set  Hue to 0%, Saturation to 100%, and Luminescence to 40%. 

11.)  Now go to Image then Sharpen then Sharpen.

12.)  Deselect your text, go to Selections then None.  Now use the Selection Tool to draw a Rectangle around your text.  Now to get the same colors for the HeXum, go to Colors then Adjust then Red/Green/Blue.  Set the Red and Blue to 100%, leave Green at 0%.  Play around with this setting to get different colors all with that glassy effect! :)

Crop your Image and You are DONE!

This Concludes Tutorial #4.

Any Questions?