Easy Text Tutorial

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  1. Soulravenclaw

    Soulravenclaw Well-Known Member

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    Souls Text Tutorial
    creds or +rep are much appreciated, i hope you find this tutorial useful.

    Step1- Open up your signature that your gunna use, for this tutorial im gunna use this sig.

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    step2- youve gotta pick a good location for where you put the text, in this sig the render is in the middle, as you can see this doesnt leave much space for text, except for either side of the render.
    For the tutorial i chose this location

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    step3-Now at the moment it doesnt look all that gd, so to make it look better you got to adjust the blending options by clicking on this button here.

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    part 2 being done now
     
  2. Soulravenclaw

    Soulravenclaw Well-Known Member

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    okay part 2

    Step 4-The words 'Soul' & 'raven' are on different layers
    click on the blending options button and use these settings.


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    turn the fill opacity to '0'

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    turn the distance to '0'

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    now add an inner glow with these settings, for the color click on a color behind the sig, in this sig its a crystal blue

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    Now add the bevel and emboss the above settings

    Okay now click ok

    step5- with the text layer still selected press ctrl+j a few times (this duplicates the layer)

    as you can see from the example below its alot clearer now

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    now if this optional but depending on the sig a 1px stroke in black can make it look better

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    this is the sig with the 1 px stroke on the text.

    If like me you had two seperate layers for the text simply repeat the above process.
    Also adjusting the above settings can lead to other results, but its the final result that matters.
    I hope this tutorial has helped you, its probably aimed at beginners buts its my frist tut.
    C&C appreciated and creds & =rep always welcome

    this is the result with both names

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  3. Razor-47

    Razor-47 Well-Known Member

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    That doesn't look too bad. Nice job.
     
  4. Soulravenclaw

    Soulravenclaw Well-Known Member

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    thanks man, if ne 1 does use im interested in seeing the result. so post your result if you want
     
  5. cubanito_loco

    cubanito_loco New Member

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    nice job.... :D
     
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    Nice job, could be a lil better explained but it's ok
     
  7. bsbgmfaz

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    great tut i like it
     

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