Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Pixelated Text Tutorial | Text Effects


Start a new document 500x200 pixels, pick to colors one for your forground and one for your background, im using to types of blue, then goto "filter > render > clouds>", then select the text tool and the color white then type what ever it is you want to pixelate, heres how mine looks.

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Now duplicate your text layer and drag your duplicated layer underneath the original and goto "filter > blur > guassian blur" photoshop will tell you that the text layer needs to be rasterized just click ok, now guassion blur it by 4 pixels, heres how mine looks.

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Now goto "filter > pixelate > mosiac" and type in 12 click ok. looks abit blurry so we need to sharpen it, goto "filter > sharpen > sharpen" do this twice.

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Now add a small drop shadow under your original text layer. DONE!

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Pixelated Text Tutorial


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