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Written by Vishnu
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007
Category - Text Effects
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This tutorial exercise provides step by step instructions on how to create metallic text in photoshop. Follow the steps as
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| 1) Open Photoshop and create a New file as shown in Figure 1.
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| Figure 1. |
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2) Now let us fill black color in the blank layer with help of Paint Bucket tool {I have selected black color background for
this tutorial} as shown in Figure 2.
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| Figure 2. |
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3) Now let us insert a new layer on which we shall type the text {You can choose font, size and color as per your
requirement} as shown in Figure 3. After typing the text you need to do the following:
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| You should Rasterize the Layer. |
| Right click on the Text Layer and click on Rasterize layer. |
| Next you have to make a copy of the layer. |
Right click on the text layer and click on Duplicate layer or (Ctrl+j). You will find two text
layers. |
| Next Step is grouping the layers Press (ctrl+g). |
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| Figure 3. |
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