photoshop tutorial: Plastic text

[linnou]

Asalamo Alaikom
Today we're going to make very nice plastic text with a good light effect. The tutorial is pretty long but it's not that hard so here we go.


Create a new document (300x300) and write a word in a big bold font. Double-click on the text layer and stroke the word with a one pixel thick, dark-grey line. Then use a gradient overlay. You can choose the colors but make sure you have the same colors on both ends, just with a small difference in darkness (like red and dark-red).

http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_1.gif
http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_2.gif

Now use inner glow with a lighter version of the lightest color in the gradient (light-red). Settings should be like this:

http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_innerglow.gif

http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_3.gif

The next style is the Inner Shadow. Now use a darker version of the darkest color in the gradient (very dark-red). Settings:




http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_innershadow.gif


http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_4.gif

The last style is the Drop Shadow. Use a very dark color. Settings:

http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_dropshadow.gif

Note: you don't have to set the distance to 18, it can also be set to a value between 0 and 18. Some people like it more like that.

http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_5.gif

We're almost there. We just have make the word more shiny now and we're going to do that by using the brush tool (white, opacity: 80, sft round 17 pixels ) . Ctrl-Click the text layer to select the text. Now go over the light sides of the text with the white brush tool to make it even lighter.

http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_6.gif

Voila, there you have it. A nice, plastic word.

To make the light effect stronger, you can add a gradient background behind the text with the white side to the light side of the text.

http://www.tomorrowsdesigners.com/main/images/tuts/plastic_end.jpg




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