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Floating text effect

July 30, 2010 by laishram  
Filed under Text Effects

On this tutorial we will learn how to create a beautiful 3d floating text

1. Open a new document, for this tutorials i m using 600px by 400px with white background

2. On our next step we will select the type tools, before you type select the font style and font color you want to use
want to work with, for this tutorial i have select the font sytle plantagenet and font color to #13b7e0.

3.Create a duplicate copy of the text layer and hide the original layer, now rename the copy layer as floating.

4. Select the floating layer and right click on the layer and select the rasterize type, now free transform the text by CTRL+T or go to Menu Edit> Free Transform and then right click on the text and select the option perspective and adjust as shown below.

5. Now holding down the Alt key and press the up arrow key 25 times. You will find something like the image shown below.

6. Now hide the layer floating copy 25 and the layer floating and merge the layers that is floating copy to floating copy 24. To merge these layer select the layer floating copy 24 and then hold down the shit key and click on the layer floating copy and hit the shortcut key CTRL+E.

7. Now create a new layer, Ctrl+left click on the merge layer,

8. Select the gradient tools and adjust the the foreground and background color to #004ea6 and #00ace5 and apply the gradient, as shown below.


9. Now unhide the layer floating copy 25.

10. Here is our final images

11. You can add one step, slect the burn tool and apply on the edge of the text

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