Friday, February 15, 2008

Text with metal border


I will show you a nice text effect, very used on web.
The text will have a nice metallic border

Open a new document in photoshop
Size should be 400 x 400 pixels
Color: white
Type some random text

now add the following layer styles





 
This is the result

be sure you have the text layer selected. then go to Select > Load selection (When a new window appear press OK )

Go to Select > modify > Expand and use the following settings

This is the result

Now select the background layer, then press CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N
Then with this new layer selected go to Edit > fill and use the following settings



Press on CTRL+D to deselect
then add the following layer styles on this button








This is the result

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