Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: Ice Text
If you really want a cool
site, then you just might need ice text. Here's
a fairly simple way to get some chill-as-a-penguin
results.
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 Open
a new document with a black background. Make it large enough
that you text will have ample space between it and the
edges of the image on all sides. Set white as your foreground
color and black as your background color by hitting D then X.
Create a new layer by hitting Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N (Mac:
Shift+Command+Option+N). Use the Text Tool to add your
text in white. (In the example, I used 140 pt Eurostile
Bold Oblique).
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 With
the text layer still active, hold Ctrl (Command)
and click the text layer in the Layers palette to make
it a selection. Go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise.
Click OK to the pop-up asking you if you want to
rasterize. Choose 150% and Uniform. Hit Ctrl+D (Command+D)
to deselect.
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 Go
to Filter>Pixelate>Crystalize and choose Cell
Size 3. Next, go to Filter>Stylize>Find
Edges. Hit Ctrl+I (Command+I) to inverse the
colors.
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 Go
to Edit>Transform>Rotate 90° CW. Then, Filter>Blur>Gaussian
Blur and choose 0.8 for the Radius. Go to Filter>Stylize>Wind and
pick Wind and From the Right. If the icicles-to-be
are getting close to the left side, move your text over
to the right a bit. Run the same wind filter a second time
and then go Edit>Fade Wind. Move the Opacity
slider to suite your preference. With larger text, 100%
might be ok, but with my example, I decreased the Opacity
to 80%.
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 Flip
your text back around by going Edit>Transform>Rotate
90° CCW. Create a new layer by hitting Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N (Shift+Command+Option+N).
Select a light blue color you'd like to accent your ice
with as you foreground color (I picked #1A9BFF). Fill the
new layer with that color by hitting Alt+Backspace (Option+Delete).
Hold Alt (Option) and click between the blue layer
and the text layer in the Layers Palette. The cursor should
turn to into a symbol with two circles when you have it
in the right place. With the blue layer still selected,
go to the left drop-down menu above and change its Blending
Mode to Overlay. Then, decrease the Opacity slider
to suite your taste. (I opted for 90% in the example).
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 Now
for the moderately tricky part. Create another new layer
by hitting Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N (Shift+Command+Option+N).
Hold Ctrl (Command) and click the layer with your
text to load it as a selection. Fill the layer selection
with a dark blue (I used #000761). Hit Ctrl+D (Command+D)
to deselect. Set white as your background color. Go to Filter>Artistic>Neon
Glow. This part varies heavily with what the size and
style of your text. Choose a middle blue color (I picked
#002BD0). Move the Glow Size to roughly -8 and Glow
Brightness to roughly 19.
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 Go
to Filter>Plastic Wrap and change the settings
to your preference (I used Highlight Strength 8, Detail
14, Smoothness 7). In the Layers Palette, change the Blending
Mode to Pin Light. If you wish to make it more blue,
you can do the same thing as in Step 5: make a new layer,
fill it with a darker blue (I chose #001E91), hold Alt (Option)
and click between the the layer and the one beneath it,
change the Blending Mode to Overlay, and adjust
the Opacity as you see fit. (I made it 18%).
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 To
finish it off, set white as you foreground color and grab
the Paint Brush tool. In the Brush selector at the top,
find the sparkle brushes that look like the ones I used
to the left. You may have load the Assorted Brushes.abr
file that has these brushes. It should be located in a
folder similar to C:\Adobe\Photoshop 7\Presets\Brushes\.
Create a new layer on top and apply the brushes to a few
highlighted areas near the top of your text. Brr.that's
it.I've got to put a coat on.
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Tutorial
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