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In this step by step tutorial, you’ll learn how to recreate the modern/futuristic text effect in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game using some simple Adobe Photoshop techniques. You’ll learn the text effects in this tutorial.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn the text effect techniques,featured in the video game.
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Before you begin
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Create the Photoshop canvas

1. Open a new blank canvas using Edit > New (Ctrl + N) in Photoshop. Use a large canvas to give us plenty of room: 1600px width and 500px height will do just fine (knowing that we can easily rescale our work down later on if we need to).

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Fill the Background layer
2. Now we have a brand new canvas to work with. We fill the Background layer with black (#000000) by setting the Foreground color to black (#000000) in the Tools Panel, choosing Edit > Fill while the Background layer is active in the Layers Panel, making sure that the Use option is set to Foreground Color, and pressing OK. That will fill our Background layer with the desired color.

Working on the text
3. Next we create our text. Choose the Horizontal Type Tool (T) from the Tools Panel. In the Options bar, set the font to Bank Gothic Lt BT and change the color to white (#FFFFFF). Also, set the font size to 30pt or so.

4. We then type our chosen phrase or slogan in the Bank Gothic Lt BT font onto our canvas. We should now have something that looks like the following figure.

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Adding the Outer Glow layer style
5. We now change the settings of the text layer by choosing it in the Layers Panel, and then clicking on the Add a layer icon (it’s the "fx" icon) at the bottom of the Layers Panel. In the contextual menu that will appear upon clicking the Add a layer icon, choose Outer Glow. This will then open the Layer Style dialog box. Change the settings of the Outer Glow layer style to the settings you can find below. The color used is #7DFF6E.

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Creating a repeating pattern
6. To complete the effect, we must create a Photoshop pattern that we’ll apply to our text. To do this, first create a new Photoshop document with the following settings. Note that the dimension of the canvas is very small, 1px wide and 3px high.

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7. By default, the Background layer of the new document will be locked an un-editable. Double-click on the Background layer to open the New Layer dialog box. Press "OK", and the background layer will be unlocked and renamed to Layer 0.

8. Since the canvas is small, use the Zoom Tool (Z) to zoom in as close to the canvas as possible.

9. Set your Foreground color in the Tools Panel to black (#000000). Then we use the Pencil Tool (B) to draw a 1px square box right in the middle of the canvas.

10. Select the entire canvas using Select > All (Ctrl + A). Choose Edit > Define Pattern, and name it something intuitive, like modern warfare. Now we can switch back to our original canvas with our text and apply the repeating pattern we just created.

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Applying the repeating pattern

11. You should have now switched back to our original Photoshop document (and you can close the pattern document after defining it, we’re done with it). Get out the Clone Stamp Tool (S) from the Tools Panel.

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12. In the Options bar, change the Clone Stamp Tool’s option to the setting below. Make sure that you change the pattern to the one we just made.

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13. We then create a new layer on top of everything that will host the pattern we’ll apply to the text. With the Pattern Stamp Tool, draw/paint over your text.

14. Finally, lower the opacity of the pattern layer to around 80% or to something that you like, finishing off the first text effect.

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