Designing Cool Text And Customizing Cool Background In Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to design a simple yet eye catching text style in the most uncomplicated manner.

1. Create a new document with Width 600, Height 340.

2. Set the Gradient Tool as shown below.

3. Create a Radial Gradient from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.

4. Open a new layer. Draw circles using the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Fill the circle withBlack color.

5. Change the Blend Mode from Normal to Divide. Fill 20 %.

6. Merge both layers.

Back ground is now ready.

7.  Now create your text using white color. The font is ‘Showcard Gothic.’

Resource: http://www.fontsner.com

8.  First, right click on the Text layer and choose Rasterize Type.

9. Press CTRL and click text thumbnail. Selection will appear around the text.

10. Go to Select > Modify > Contract.

11. Contract by 5 pixels.

12. Now press delete key on your key board.Only an outline of your text will remain. Name the layer, ‘Outline’.

(Do not deselect the selection.)

13 . Create new layer and fill this selection with white color. Name it ‘PSL’.

(Now deselect the selection.)

14. Go back on your Outline layer.

15. Double click the Outline layer.

Make the following changes in the Layer Style:

16. Go to layer “PSL” and make some changes in Bevel and Emboss.

17. Use the Custom Shape Tool to draw in a shape.

I’m making use of two different shapes, one by one.

First, the flower.

We’ll use the Custom Shape Tool on the PSL layer.

18. Draw in the flower shape on one of the letters.

19. Right click on the flower shape and choose Make selection.

20. Press the delete key.

You can reuse the original flower selection by moving it onto other letters or elsewhere and pressing the delete key every time.

Follow the same steps for any other shape you want to add.

That its babe.

Final Picture:

copied from http://www.photoshoplayer.com