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Plastic Jelly Styles

Collison Sep 14th 2007 with102 comments

In this tutorial, well be using layerstyles to make a plastic gel-type style that you can easily apply to text and shapes. You candownload the PSD file from the link at the bottom of the tutorial to just copy+paste the styles.

Step 1:

BACKGROUND LAYER

We start as always with a background gradient. Ive used a Radial Gradient with two shades of the exact same brown that this siteuses. The exact color codes are:

Foreground color#2f2520Background color#1e1916

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Step 2:

Now in a nice delectable green, we write a word. Ive written Jelly and used the font "Gill Sans Ultra Bold." Bolder fonts aregood for this sort of effect because there is more room to actually do stuff with the styles.

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Step 3:

So now we right-click on the layer and choose Blending Options to start adding styles. First we add a drop shadow to lift theletters off the background and then an inner shadow. Later on when we add highlights, this shadow will contrast nicely withthem.

Step 4:

To create the highlights, we use Bevel and Emboss. The default settings for bevel and emboss suck, so dont use those. Ivemoved some things around and if you download the sample PSD, youll see what I mean. The highlights need to be shades ofgreen to make it look like light is bouncing around inside the letters.

Step 5:

Next we add a Gradient Overlay and a Stroke. The gradient gives a bit of light and dark to the letters and the stroke helps seal itoff at the edges.

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Step 6:

Now the neat thing about this style is you can just change the coloring on each set of blending options and you have a new colorfor the style. Here Ive written a second word and applied the style there too but this time with red settings.

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Step 7:

To finish it off, create a new layer above and then hold down Ctrl and click on the layer to select it.

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Step 8:

Then go to Select > Modify > Contract and use a value of 4 pixels to shrink the selection.

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Step 9:

Now we need a gradient that goes from white to transparency which you can choose by switching to the gradient tool and usingthe little thumbnail thing up at the top left (shown in the image)

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Step 10:

Using that gradient, draw a gradient in the selection from white to transparency.

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Step 11:

Then make an elliptical selection using the selection tool and hit delete as shown. This will make the highlight you just drewsuddenly stop and consequently look very plasticky.

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Lost in Space Typography in Photoshop

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Last week I was checking out some of theTypography Maniaposts, and got

really inspired to try something new. So I decided to create an abstract

composition with light effects and apply that as a texture of a text, everything

done only using Photoshop.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create an easy and super quick text effect in Photoshop.

We will play with Brushes, Blend Modes, basic filters like Blur and Liquify, and also text.

Step 1

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Open Photoshop and create a new document. I used 2560x1440 pixels. Then with the Gradient

Tool (G) fill the background with a radial gradient with 2 shades of purple (3d2626) Lighter

and (060404) darker.

Step 2

With the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) create an ellipse selection. Add a new layer and select

the Gradient Tool (G). Use black and a very light grey for the colors. Fill the ellipse selection

with the radial gradient. Use the image below for reference.

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Step 3

Go to Edit>Define Brush to create a new brush.

Step 4

Go to Window>Brushes. Use the image below for the values of the Brush Tip Shape, Shape

Dynamics, Scattering, Color Dynamics and Other Dynamics.

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Step 5

Add a new layer and with the Brush Tool (B) and the brush you have just created, paint some

spheres on the design. This is a random effect so you won't get the same result as I did.

Step 6

Add another layer and group this layer. This new layer will be inside a folder in the Layer

Palettes. Change the folder's Blend Mode to Color Dodge. Then, with the Brush Tool (B),select white for the color and a big soft brush to paint some areas to highlight them (1-4). Tip:

Use the numbers 1-0 to change the opacity of the brush, with 1 being 10% and 0 being

100%.

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Step 7

Add a new layer and with the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), create a rectangular selection.Fill this selection with a white to black linear gradient using the Gradient Tool (G). After that

change the Blend Mode to Color Dodge to create a nice light effect.

Step 8

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Duplicate the light effect layer. Rotate and resize them to create different light effects. Tip: Use

the Eraser Tool (E) to blend some of the light effects one they are over one another.

Step 9

Add a new layer and group this layer so it will be inside a folder. Change the Blend Mode of thefolder to Color Dodge. With the Brush Tool (G), using white for the color, select the layer

inside the folder and paint some flares (1-3)

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Step 10

Add another layer on top of the others, then with the Gradient Tool (G) fill the layer with a

gradient using red, yellow, green and blue for the colors. Change the Blend Mode of this layer

to Overlay.

Step 11

Create a new layer and fill it with a checkerboard pattern. You can download it here. Then go toFilter>Blur>Gaussian Blur, use 10 pixels for the Radius. After that change its Blend Mode to

Color Dodge.

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Step 12

Select the pattern layer and go to Filter>Liquify. Use the Twirl Clockwise Tool (C) and theBloat Tool (B) to deform the pattern layer.

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Step 13

Select all layers and clickCommand(mac)/Control PC + Alt + Shift + E to create a layer withall the layers merged in it. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 20 pixels for the Radius.

Then change the Blend Mode to Screen and the Opacity to 50%. Once again click on

Command(mac)/Control PC + Alt + Shift + E to create a layer with the final design.

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Step 14

To create the text effect we will add a new layer for a new background. You can duplicate thesame layer from the Step 1 and just change the colors, instead of a purple hue I used a brown.

The light one is 3b2500 and the dark 130f08.

Step 15

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Select the Horizontal Type Tool (T) and type "Lost in Space" like a did in the image below.

Make the words "Lost" and "Space" much bigger than the "In". Then change the font to VAL.You can download it here (http://fontfabric.com/?p=585). Use white for the color.

Step 16

Go to Layer>Layer Styles>Drop Shadow. Use Multiply for the Blend Mode, black for the

color, -90 for the angle, 0 for Distance and Spread and 30 for Size.

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Step 17

Select now Inner Shadow. use Color Dodge for the Color with White, 100% for the

Opacity, 2 pixels for the DIstance, 1 for Choke and 5 pixels for Size.

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Step 18

Move the layer with the design merged to be on top of the other layers, more specifically on top

of the text layer. Then go to Layer>Create Clipping Mask.

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Step 19

Go to Google Images and search for some eclipse photos, I found this amazing one athttp://www.cardiff-astronomical-society.co.uk/ECLIPSE2006\DSCF0841.JPG. Copy it and paste

it in your design. Go to Image>Adjustments>Levels. Increase the black input. Change theBlend Mode to Screen. Also go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 5 pixels for the Radius.

Step 20

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Duplicate the eclipse layer and position it on top of the other ones that were in the design, the

difference is that now it will look like the lights are coming out of the text.

Conclusion

Merge all the layers again and you can add a little noise (Filger>Noise>Add Noise). The effectis very simple and won't take you more than 20-30 minutes to achieve it. But it's a nice exercise

for those willing to play with light effects, also clipping mask and text effects in Photoshop.

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Step 12:

And thats it! Ive repeated the same highlight steps on the word Style as well.

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