Multi-Coloured Bold Text!

[GraphicsBoy]

Ok hey guys today we will be doing a text that really stands out and looks cool!

Plug-Ins Needed:

Drop Shadow Effect

Outline Object Effect

Multi Colour Gradient

These Downloads are Safe and from this website.

Okay...

This is what your finished product will look like: (With your own text)

Step One -> Open up a new sheet sized Width:800 Height:300 (pixels)

Step Two -> Fill your background Cyan - Baby blue - This will be changed!

Step Three -> Create a new layer and add some text to it. Make it big and bold! (Leave a bit of room around it! Im using

Font: Franklin Gothic Heavy

Size: 72

Bold

Underlined

Text: GraphicsBoy (You don't have to have this lol)

Colour: (YOUR COLOUR HAS TO BE WHITE!!)

Should Look Similar if not the same as this:

Step Four -> Okay now you have done that go onto Magic Wand Tool and Selection Mode: Add(union)

make sure your on layer 2.

Step Five -> Select the letters one by one so you end up with this:

Step Six ->Now select - Effects -> Render -> Multi Coloured Gradient. Click Okay.

Looks cool Right?

Step Seven -> Untick the Background in the Layers section and Select All (Ctrl&A)

Now select Effects -> Object -> Drop Shadow. Use these Stats.

Click okay. it should look similar to this:

Step Eight -> Now click Effect -> Object -> Outline Object. Use Radius:2 Strength:6 Outline Colour: Black

Click Okay

You should get something like this:

Step Nine -> Now we do lots and lots of outline objects changing the colour.

so start with purple at the top of the wheel thing.

Go to Outline Object use radius:2 strength:6 outline colour: Change it to a kind of purple at the top.

click okay it should look like this.

Repeat but using another colour

Repeat and repeat again

use the colours in this order

1,Purple (Just done)

2,Pink

3,Red

4,Orange

5,Yellow

6,Green

7,Light Blue

8,Dark Blue

9,Purple

When you have done all of them it should look like this:

Okay. now Re-tick your background back. then get out your rubber. Rub out all of your background.

(I Reccomend unticking your text layer. helps a bit)

You may notice you have a few small white bits so if you just do gaussian blur on 1 or 2 that gets rid and gives a nice little effect.

Now just save it and there you go

Please post yours as i would love to see your stuff.

This was my first tutorial so I'm sorry if it sucked. lol

MY FINAL PRODUCT:

The transparancy and the shape is really nice i think. what about you?

Thanks

GraphicsBoy

[Ego Eram Reputo]

That's not a bad effect and a nicely written tutorial for a first try!

The only critique I have is that the text edges are pixellated. See around the curve in the letter P? That blocky (or stepped) edge is ruining the overall effect.

One thing I will ask you to do is to resize your larger images so that their maximum dimension is 800px or less. Thanks.

[CarsonWalla]

I'm afraid I might of gotten carried away on the outline thing... Nice tutorial, though. Except it's too specific.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

One thing I will ask you to do is to resize your larger images so that their maximum dimension is 800px or less. Thanks.

What a pity...,