St.Jim Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it This tutorial will teach you how to create an embossed glowing style text effect: This is what you will end up with if you follow my tut correctly: Looks good? Interested? Well lets begin: But... First you will need the following things: --Mandatory:-- The drop shadow plugin --You can use:-- The font I'm using in this tut. First start off with a simple dark background, and add a new layer - call it text, then add your desired text in black colour. Duplicate the text layer ( )(naming the duplicate text2) Then select the colour replacer tool (standard settings + large brush, 90 or so) with Primary colour White, Secondary Black. This will look like this: Gaussian Blur Text2 by 7PX, this will give an embossed feel. Then duplicate Text2 to intensify the white. Name the Duplicate layer Text_colour. Recolour Text_colour with your colour. Then Gaussian Blur Text_colour by 6PX. Use Circular Gradient with transparency mode ON, and drag from centre of text towards the outside. --Someone PM'ed me asking where it was so here it is:-- Should now look like this: Merge Text_colour and Text2, and merge it down again So you have now 1 Text layer. Duplicate layer and merge down (X2) This will make the text glow. Duplicate Text layer (call it blur) and motion blur at 152.10, centred, 200. And again at 25, centred, 200. Make sure that text is ontop of blur! Nearly there! Add new layer (ontop) and call it Line. Then draw a line 2-3PX underneath your text. Gaussian Blur the ends, and black drop shadow on the line layer at 7,7,1,4. Done! Oh - background, yes, I did change it several times in the tut, this was to show you certain elements of it better, you can just keep it all the way through. Hope you enjoyed this tut - I will happily answer any Q's! Answers: Some people have asked some questions about my tutorial, to clarify them once and for all, I'll post the answers here: 1. PX is the amount you blur the text by (in Gaussian blur) just slide it across (or type in the box) to the amount you want. 2. People who have had problems with the text recolouring I have made a video (I have tried to get across what I meant but it is a bit hard lol) Video url: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K-j5KwG_SbQ End results from the video: Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHXpert59 Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 very nice tutorial! I'll have to make a new sig with it! Quote It's GHXpert59 of Reaper Graphix, Kongregate! everybody bow down! HE RULEZ TEH INTERWEBZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlargElite Posted October 18, 2008 Share Posted October 18, 2008 awesome tut! Mine didnt turn out as good but still awesome! Quote Leader of Elite Graphics, and proud member of Reaper Graphix Art Archive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jim Posted October 19, 2008 Author Share Posted October 19, 2008 very nice tutorial! I'll have to make a new sig with it! awesome tut! Mine didnt turn out as good but still awesome! Thanks! @ GHXpert59: Great! I'd love to see the results of your sig @ BlargElite: What part did it go wrong? I'd be willing to help you sort it out Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariaane Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 Great tutorial. Mine however didn't turn out correct. Applying the gradient was problematic. I had the primary colour set to white and the secondary colour at black when applying the gradient. I don't know if this is where the problem happended... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mini-me-xox Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Help Please... I dont know where i went wrong xx email me mini-me-xox@hotmail.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 mini-me-xox - We perform all troubleshooting here, to be a help to others who might have the same problem. Anyway, I don't see what's wrong with it. Can you explain what you were going for? Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jim Posted October 30, 2008 Author Share Posted October 30, 2008 Looks a bit flat to me, but otherwise perfect! Just try and use less blur so that it shows the beveled effect I got, for example 5 instead of 7 e.t.c Like David said, please put some more info as to what went wrong :wink: Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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St.Jim Posted November 24, 2008 Author Share Posted November 24, 2008 Not trying to bump my topic, but a guy called Atso contacted me via sky-drive with this message: Hi, I was wondering a thing... I tried to work on your tutorial, because it looks very nice. I dled the needed plugins. But I failed at the first part .You say "Duplicate the text layer ( )(naming the duplicate text2) Then select the colour replacer tool (standard settings + large brush, 90 or so) with Primary colour White, Secondary Balck. This will look like this:" I can't seem to find this colour replacer tool... Do I need to get it separate? Im running with pdn version 3.35 Thx Now normally I wouldn't post this for the sake of posting it, but he has set his account so that it cannot recieve any messages, so I hope you can get your answer here! Strictly speaking the Colour Replacer isn't realy called that, its called Recolour, 8th down on the right of the tools window. Hope this answers your question, St.Jim Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberSpace Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Sweet tutorial! This is now my new desktop background. Resized from original. Quote Are you ready? Glossy Web 2.0 Style Text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangejuice Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 nice tut, here's what i came out with...how did you blur just the edges?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior-B Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Where can i find Gaussian Blur ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Where can i find Gaussian Blur ? Effects -> Blur -> Guassian Blur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jim Posted December 13, 2008 Author Share Posted December 13, 2008 nice tut, here's what i came out with...how did you blur just the edges?? Just select the duplicated layer and blur it with motion blur one angle then back again in the oppoisite andgle to give a blurred effect. Just don't blur the bottom arrow Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yt27 Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 Something keeps going wrong when i try to do it, evrything work's fine until i get up to the bit where you start the gradient thing. i'm following the instructions perefectly but still i go wrong...please help lol Quote “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.Jim Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 Something keeps going wrong when i try to do it, evrything work's fine until i get up to the bit where you start the gradient thing.i'm following the instructions perefectly but still i go wrong...please help lol Okay, sorry but can you provide some screenshots of whats gone wrong (i.e. before you have done the gradient and after) thx Quote My DeviantArt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanksgiving Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Awesome. I really like that. Here's my attempt on my 3rd day of Paint.Net Quote Started Paint.net on Sunday, December 21, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saywat Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Gaussian Blur Text2 by 7PX what does 7px mean? sorry, newbie here xD edit: and whats colour replacer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasty Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Came up with an effect that looks a bit different from this quite a while ago, but it pretty much follows the same steps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007 Nab Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 You should post it Quote "pyrochild, you're my favorite person ever. We should go snowboarding some time."~ 007 Nab. Ish. PDN Gallery | I Made a Deviant Art! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feuver Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 Can't make it work, I can't recolour it after I blurred it and duplicate it (text_colour part) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullDraw Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I have the color replacer tool but I don;t understand about the brush selection. Is this suppose to be included in the color replacer? Because I do not see one..What am I missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopperoad Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Can't make it work, I can't recolour it after I blurred it and duplicate it (text_colour part) I got the same problem. So why can't we Re-color??? Quote Chop's Studio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasty Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 You should post it You post it. I already told you how to do it. =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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