Alien Text Effect in Photoshop

 

So here is another Text Effect in Photoshop. You can use this effect to make titles for your site, printing material etc. It is quite easy tutorial, simple Blending options to use. So hopefully it will be an addition in your gallery.

1. First of all take a new file of any size, I’m going to take 560×400 px size with RGB color mode and 72 DPI.
2. Now choose any background and put it on your file like:



3. Its time to write your text over it. Try to write text in Bold font, I’ve used Impact fond with Green color:



4. Now I’m going to apply Layer Styles over this text layer (Layer >> Layer Styles), I’m going to use Drop Shadow, Outer Glow, Inner Glow, Bevel & Emboss, Gradient Overlay & finally Pattern Overlay. So chose these command one by one and apply the following settings in relevant boxes.











5. When you hit ok, this kind of effect should come:



6. Now duplicate your image layer and place it over the Text layer. Then change the blending mode of this layer from Normal to Softlight.



You will get this effect:



7. Again duplicate this image layer and place it over the previous copied layer and change the blending mode from Normal to Overlay and reduce the opacity to 50% and fill to 50%:



you will get this final result:


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Make Orange Effects

Hello and this time we'll create extremely fill of glow wallpaper. Out theme for today is - oranges so this is why the base color of our illustration
will be orange too. Let's start by creating a document in Photoshop.



Now let's find some orange references in the net.



Here are some fine oranges to work with - but not that i will use other orange reference photo in the end ( it will be included in the set).

Here is the full composition.

So the first thing i'm going to do is - clear all the white areas and leave the background transparent. Many tactics will do here. As we have nicely done big dimension picture we can use : selections magic eraser tool and just an eraser: may things to choose from. I'm not using the single one - I'm combining selections with plain eraser.

So here is our result: As you can see it is nicely clean and has a transparent background - like just we needed.







Now back to our initial document. Copy the orange there and position it like i do.







As a background i will use paper texture. It easy to find one on the net i guess.



Set it underneath the orange layer - here we go.



It seems to me that background need a little bit more attention. I'd like to drop some stripes to the background. Here is vertical stripe with default color. i will use the same stripe with the same color in next steps.



Here is the same color stripe with blending mode set to Exclusion. in changed our color - it looks ok i think.



Then let's draw some horizontal lines too: oh did i say draw ? you can just copy the ones that you have.



As you can see -one line is smaller than the other and the colors vary too. This is actually our very first line with different layer blending modes.







Here is the result:



SO a think we are done shaping the document. i think it is time to begin to adjust colors and add some elements to it.

First take any texture brush you have, create a layer next to paper texture layer set it to overlay.











Now let's take care of our Orange - main object. First i would like to apply some of layer effects using layer styles.

Here are the settings.







As you can see i used glow filters only.



Zoom in a little bit - there is also a good way to add local contrast to the are - you just create a layer underneath the object layer set it's mode to overlay or soft light and paint with White using soft edged brush - Airbrush (with opacity set to 3-9%).

Our next step will be the creation of deco elements to the object - the orange. I will pick a HR floral brush. So create a layer underneath the orange layer but upper than all the layers with the stripes. Choose Floral brush ( download ) pick white color and do just one tap.



... a little bit more of those.







....a little bit overlay to the orange and we are done there. so here is the result - note that there is another orange ( see support files ). See you next time. Read More..

Make Carbon Fiber Hood

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Step 1:

Okay, we'll be using this car and we're going to cf the hood.



Step 2:

Using the polygonal lasso tool, select the part of the car you would like to
carbon fiber. Then press ctrl+c and ctrl+v to make it a new layer.


Step 3:

Press ctrl+click on the new layer of the hood to select it. now go to image>adjustments>replace color. now use the eyedropper tool to select a color on the hood that covers the majority of the hood. then go to the bottom of the window and choose a really dark, desaturated green color. and bring the fuzziness to 200. this allows to keep the colored reflections from the original hood. press okay and you can mess with the brightness and contrast or levels to your liking if you wish.


Step 4:

Now we are going to use this cf pattern(credit to patel...i just found it on some other tutorial).


Step 5:

So stretch the pattern until it covers the hood, and then ctrl+click on the hood layer. then press ctrl+shift+i to invert the selection. then press ctrl+x to cut.


Step 6:

Ok, now name that layer cf1. change blending mode to soft light and change the layer opacity to 80. now the thing with carbon fiber is, less is more. in pics of real carbon, you never see the pattern on the entire hood because it is so light-sensitive. so set your eraser to 25% and 0 hardness at a fairly big size and start fading away the carbon fiber. the farther away the cf, the less of the pattern you see. also, if there are indents and shaping on the hood, want to make sure that the cf pattern does not go straight over them.


Step 7:

Now we are going to repeat this step with a different carbon pattern (credit goes to however made this image...i dont remember where i found it). this step is optional given it works much better on other pics than others. Name this layer cf2. So take this pattern and set the blending mode to soft light, and change the opacity to 40-50. repeat the erasing step.


Step 8:

Now your image should look like this.


Step 9:

You can mess around more with the contrast and saturation if you like, but your final product should look something like this.


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