(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); before we get started do not be afraid to alter any of the attributes to get your own kind of effect. experiment and see what you can come up with on your own, this is just to give you some basic techniques in creating specialized layer styles.

ok so first lets make a new project, i will make mine 1920x1080 set to 72dpi and a background color of black

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next i will select a font and put the name i want


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if you need to seperate the spacing between the letters you can use a technique call "kerning". kerning is manipulating the space between individual letters in a word, you can achieve this by setting your bar between the desired letters and while holding "alt" press the left or right arrow keys until your text is in its desired position like so

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now we can start adding effects, first thing we will add is a color overlay, to add an effect you can "fx" button at the bottom of the layers panel located here

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i will set the color to a red medium color (here are the RGB values)

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next we will add a inner glow, here are the values i am using
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next we can add a inner shadow, the values for this is
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now we will add a drop shadow, this value we will set as shown
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you should now have something like this
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what we will now do is rasterize the type, and the layer style, you can do that by right clicking on the layer like this(same for the layer style)
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now you should have no effects under your layer, like this
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no we are going to add differrent layer styles to the new image we created, the reason we rasterized the type and the layer style is so that we can add new layer styles that will not affect the effects we've already made... make sense? good, moving on



now we will add a stroke to our new image, these are the values (the stroke size is 7)
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next add a gradient overlay, these are the values i set on mine
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once again we will rasterize the the layer style (we do not have to rasterize the type again because it is still rasterized from before
now our image should look like this and have no effects under the layer icon like so
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next i add a inner glow effect with the values of
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last i will add a bevel and emboss, these values i will set to
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rasterize it one more time and an inner glow with the values of
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if done right you should end up with a sweet custom 3D looking text like this done entirely in photoshop



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Yo my bro, long time no see <3 This is a real nice tutorial and can you send me that font please?

Damn looking good

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My attempt - i just used a different red as the colour overlay Kinda did too much kerning from the L to the I haha

to much outer glow by the looks of things make sure the size and spread are lower