Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Text Design 6 - Frozen Text




1. Create a new document with 1920 * 1080 and 150 resolution.
2. Fill the background color with black.
3. Select type tool and type the text and use move tool to reposition it.
4. Merge the two layer by pressing ctrl - E.
5. Go to filter -> pixelate -> crystallize. Make the cell size -8.
6. Open channels tab and click on the icon on lower left this will make a selection of values of your image.
7. Go to select -> save selection and name it text.
8. Go to image -> image rotation and select 90 degree CW.
9. Go to filter -> stylize -> wind. Method is wind and direction is from the right.
10.Press ctrl -F twice to lengthen the icicles. Go to image -> image rotation -> 90 degree CCW.
11.Go to filter -> pixelate -> crystalize . Select cell size as 5.
12.Open the channels tab and click on the icon on lower left to make a selection.
13.Create a new layer. Fill the selection with white. Press ctrl - D to get rid of the selection.
14.Hold down ctrl and click on new layer icon . This will make a new layer below the original layer.
15.Fill the empty new layer with black color by holding alt-D
16.Open the blending options of the original layer (layer 1) :
   a. Inner Glow (Blend mode- dissolve, click on the color box and choose an icy blue color, choke -14 ,
       size-10 px )
17.Click on layer 2(new layer) and click on gradient tool and select linear gradient and click on gradient box.
Click on the platinum gradient and then click on he first stop and change the color to dark blue. Click on the right stop and  change the color to black. Click in the center of the layer to make a third stop and change
location to 50. Select a darker blue color.
18.Hold down shift key and drag the gradient from bottom to top.
19.Press ctrl - shift -alt -E to make a composite snapshot of the canvas and click on layer 1.
20.Open channels tab and click on text channel while holding down ctrl to make a selection.
21.Open layers panel and click on layer mask icon and click off the chain link between thw layer and layer mask. This way we can make changes to layer and layer mask independently of the other.
22. Click on the layer and go to filter->blur-?gaussian blur and blur the layer by 1px.
23. Go to filter->pixelate->crystallize and make the cell size 10 px.
24.click on layer mask to make it active and hold down ctrl key to make a selection.
25.click on layer and press ctrl-j to cut the selection from the image and copy it to a new layer(layer 4)
26.Open filter->filter gallery . Open artistic folder and choose plastic wrap. Change Highlight strength to 6 , detail to 1 and smoothness to 4.
27.click on adjustment layer icon and choose hue and saturation . Click on the clipping mask icon. it will make the adjustment layer affect on 1 layer beneath it. Check the colorize box and make hue-199 and saturation-50.

   

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