Wave’s text effect

by **Admin** Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:20 pm

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Firstly create a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1900px by 1200px (RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Take the Gradient Tool (G) and open the Gradient Editor fromOptions Bar:
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Choose the Foreground to Transparent gradient.
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Apply the gradient from the top to down.
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Apply the next filter: Filter>Distort>Wave and choose the next settings:
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It’s the result you should get:
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Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Inner Shadow.
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Add Gradient Overlay:
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Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close theGradient Editor dialog box.
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We’ve got the next effect:
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Create a new layer, fill it with black color applying the Paint Bucket Tool (G) and drag it under layer with gradient in Layer panel.
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Back to layer with gradient and make a copy of this layer (Ctrl+J) and apply Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical. Set after that the Opacity the same way demonstrated below:
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Select the Soft Round brush from Brush Tool (B), set the Opacity to 50% in Options Bar and use black color for Foreground color.
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Create a new layer and use here the selected brush to dark out the background the same way demonstrated next picture.
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On the next layer we’ll represent another gradient. Change Foreground color to white, take Gradient Tool (G)and open the Gradient Editor from Options Bar to select the Foreground to Transparent gradient.
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Apply the gradient on top.
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Go to Filter>Distort>Wave.
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The new result should be moved on the central part of the canvas, using in this case the Move Tool (V).
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Make a copy of the last made layer, turn it over vertically, select both layers, pressing Shift+left mouse click on the layers on the Layers panel. Then Merge Down the selected layers, pressing Ctrl+E
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Press Ctrl+T (Free Transform) and scale down as shown.
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Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Outer Glow.
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Add Inner Glow:
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Apply Gradient Overlay:
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Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close theGradient Editor dialog box.
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It’s the result you should get:
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Raise the contrast of our work, using the Create new fill or adjustment layer > Curves:
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Adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.
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The work became more contrastive.
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Create a new layer, using the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) create a rectangular selection as shown and fill the selection with white color.
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Apply the next filter: Filter>Distort>Wave filter.
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It’s the result you should get:
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by **Admin** Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:21 pm

Then resize it and make the got line smaller using Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command:
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Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Outer Glow.
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We’ve got the next result:
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Then make some copies of the layer and move the layers to create a long waved line.
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Choose a Soft Round brush of white color, set Opacity to 10% in Options bar.
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Use this brush to paint on a new layer around the wave as shown.
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Select the Horizontal Type tool (T). Select a font, size and color in the Character panel.
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Click on the canvas and type “WAVES”. Press Enter to apply the text.
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Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.
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Add Inner Glow:
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Apply Gradient Overlay:
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Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close theGradient Editor dialog box.
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Add Stroke:
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Select Fill type – Gradient. Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.
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It’s the result you should get:
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Make a copy of this layer and move it down (all Layers Style should be removed in the copy and the color must be black for text).
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Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.
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Add Inner Glow:
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Apply Color Overlay:
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We’ve got the next result:
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Create new layer and fill it with grey color – #8F8F8F
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Then select Filter>Noise>Add Noise
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We’ve got the next texture.
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Apply now the next filter: Filter>Blur>Motion Blur.
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It’s the result you should get:
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Set the Blending mode for this layer to Vivid Light.
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We’ll get a kind of effect like the next one:
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Using the Eraser Tool (E), erase everything unnecessary around text and minimize the layer’sFill.
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We’ve got the texture on the text:
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Do the same operation one more time for representing another texture, but this time in Filter>Blur>Motion Blur, changing the Angle on 45.
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The final result!
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