Posts Tagged ‘Photoshop tut’

Posted on January 16, 2009 - by Khaled

Easily achieve the trendy LetterPress effect with Photoshop

In late 2008 and early 2009 LetterPress effect is becoming increasingly popular and used in many web sites. So here 2 quick examples on how you can create a realistic letterpress effect with Adobe Photoshop (Version 7 or newer). This will take you just a couple of minutes and you can achieve it even if you are a beginner.

Example 1:

Open Photoshop, create a new document (600 x 400 for instance). I started with a white background and typed the word Letterpress (Font: Century Gothic, 60pt, All caps and set the color for instance to: #00bae8).

Now we are going to add layer effects (double click the text layer) and simply check the inner Shadow box and set it to these values (shadow color: black #000000):

You will obtain this kind of effect:

As you see we’re almost there! You can customize a bit more with overlaying a gradient overlay or you can rasterize the type layer and work on it with burn/dodge tool. You can check out this tutorial to see how to use Dodge/Burn tools. You should be able to end up with a final aspect that looks like this:

I just applied a gradient overlay effect and some burning at the base of the letters.

Example 2:

Ok, let’s see another variation that might work better if you are after a metallic Letterpress effect. Create a new document, fill in the background with a light grey color (#d0d0d0 for instance). Type in LETTERPRESS (Font: Century Gothic, 60pt, All caps, Set tracking to 50 and set the color for instance to: #919191). Now we’re going to add an inner glow effect this time. Set the Inner glow values as following (color: #000000):

The noise percentage can be tweaked and set to what is best for your purpose!

Now apply an outer glow with these settings:

You should obtain something like this:

All you need now is to play with your background to make it look like brushed metal using noise filters and motion blur along with dodge/burn tools. May  be also add a gradient overlay to the text layer and you will have something that looks like this:

If you think I should put more details about the creation of this metallic background or on the last steps of this tutorials let me know!

Posted on April 15, 2008 - by Khaled

Photoshop Wrap background Tutorial

Another old Photoshop tutorial picked up from the kyscorp archives again. This is just to show you how to create some special background effect with Photoshop. Of course once you see how the background was done you can change it and make some tweaks all along the tutorial modifying any step to obtain what you exactly need. It is an old tutorial that was created for Adobe Photoshop 7 but you can of course use Photoshop CS, CS2 or CS3. More old tutorials will be posted soon…

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