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You may not believe it, but
old-style text designs are coming back into fashion in a big
way! With a basis depending entirely on
rainbow gradients, they may seem difficult from the
outset but they are, in fact, simplicity themselves
to create and only require simple Photoshop tools.
Step 1: Create a brand new
document of a suitable size with a single background
layer filled with a solid white colour (you can
change this later - the white just makes the first
few steps easier). Use the Horizontal Type Tool to
create a word in pure black. In my case I've used
the 'Soul Papa' font at size 110. Don't worry if you
don't want to use this particular typeface - just
select something with a solid bulky retro feel
(script-style fonts rarely work well).

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2: Now to taste the rainbow! With the text
layer selected, select Layer > Layer Style > Gradient
Overlay from the application menu and duplicate the
settings opposite. The gradient itself should be included with
Photoshop (you won't have to create it manually).
Step 3: Don't press the OK button yet - We now get to the most
"retro" part of this tutorial! Navigate over to the Drop Shadow
section of the Layer Style window and enter the settings
indicated in the image on the bottom-left. This will give your text a curvy
stroke effect.
Step 4: Now
navigate over to the Inner Glow section and enter
the settings on the bottom-right. This will make your text appear
much smoother. When finished, press OK to close the
Layer Style Window.
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Step 5: Now take a look at your text. As you
will undoubtedly notice, there are a few areas where the drop shadow
hasn't quite covered the area perfectly, leaving holes between
characters. Fix this by creating a new layer on top of all the
others (and especially the text layer), and then use the Brush Tool
with a black-colour tip to paint out the problem. Some typefaces are
more prone to this problem than others, so if the area affected is
large, I'd seriously consider choosing another typeface.
Variations:
And we're done! At this point you may want to add other retro objects such as
stars, bulky underlines, and other junk to augment your text, but
we'll leave this up to you. Have fun, and remember that you
don't need to go through this tutorial again for each and every
object you add to your creation - you can just copy and paste layer
styles across by right-clicking on the text layer, choosing
Copy Layer Style and... well... you can guess what you need to
do to paste them to new objects... ;)
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- Tutorial written by Turvas
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User: yiamas (#46935)
Date: Fri Dec 21, 2007. 09:55:15 | Post #3 of 3 |
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Quote from Man1c M0g;43245: This is a thread to discuss the Retro Style Text tutorial. Please keep all posts on-topic, don't spam, and read the entire thread BEFORE you post - any issues you have could be answered deeper within the thread. |
Thank you very much it was enjoyable to do and easy instructions I am still new in photo shop and I cannot believe my self I can do all that by my self this is was amazing, it is 10 outof 10. |
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User: Pres (#43580)
Date: Wed Jul 25, 2007. 13:59:15 | Post #1 of 3 |
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it still amazes me how much u can do with photoshop, THIS i only could do in illustrator. thnx |
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