Create A Fun, Easy Gel Text Effect With Layer Styles
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Written By Steve Patterson
In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to use Layer Styles to easily create a gel text effect. The great thing is that you can have lots of fun playing around with the Layer Style settings to create your own custom gel text effect, or if you prefer, you can use the settings I'm using in the tutorial. When we're done creating the effect, we're going to save it as a preset style which we can then apply to other text instantly, and at the end, we'll see how to change the color of the effect, which may not be quite as straightforward as you think.
Here's the gel text effect we're going for:
Let's get started!
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Step 1: Open A New Photoshop Document
Go up to the File menu at the top of the screen and choose New... to bring up Photoshop's New Document dialog box and enter a width and height for your document. I'm going to use a preset size of 640x480 pixels. Click OK to create your new document:
Step 2: Choose A Color For Your Text
Select the Type tool from the Tools palette:
You can also press T on your keyboard to quickly select it. Then, with the Type tool selected, go up to the Options Bar at the top of the screen and click on the text color swatch:
This will bring up Photoshop's Color Picker. Choose a color for the text. I'm going to choose a light blue for mine:
Click OK once you've chosen a color to exit out of the Color Picker.
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