Tutorial: Warning Science !

In this tutorial i will demonstrate how to make a texteffect with two techniques i already showed you:

adding a Stroke and an Inner Shadow.

We will also do a Pattern Fill, and a Dropshadow.

01. create a new canvas 660 x 360 px

02. call up the Gradient Tool and set the Shape to Radial

set your foreground-colour to #f0f0f0 and the background-colour to #262626

stroke your gradient from the center to one of the corners

03. change the foreground-colour to #ffdb00 and type your text – i used the font Zentropa 200px with a Spacing of 7. 

(get the font here: http://www.dafont.com/zentropa.font)

04. go to Layers → Autocrop Layer and then center the text with the `'Alignment Tool'

rightclick 'Layer to Imagesize'.

05. first we add a stroke:

a) alpha select your text and save it to a channel for future use

b) then go 'Select → To Path' and 'Select → None'

c) create a new transparent layer and name it 'Stroke'

d) set the foreground-colour to #d00000

e) make sure the Stroke layer is active, go to your paths-tab and apply a stroke of 4px

06. next an Inner Shadow:

a) alpha select your text

b) shrink by 3

c) Invert

d) add a new transparent layer over your textlayer and under your 'Stroke', name it 'Inner Shadow'

e) fill layer with #1a1a1a

f) Select → None

g) Gaussian Blur by 14

e) apply layermask 'From Channel'

f) set Mode to 'Multiply' and reduce Opacity to 90%

07. Now a Pattern Overlay:

a) create a new transparent layer over your text, but make it 1000 x 1000px and name it 'Pattern'

b) set the foreground-colour to black and go to 'Filters → Render → Pattern → Grid'

c) use the following values:

d) rotate the Grid by 30° with the Rotate Tool, and align the stripes with the 'Move Tool' so they look good over the yellow text, then 'Layer to Imagesize'

e) apply a layermask 'From Channel'

08. activate the yellow textlayer and apply 0,04 RGB-Noise to make it look less clean

09. to finalize our picture we add a dropshadow:

a) activate the selection from channel

b) create a new layer under your text layer and name it 'Dropshadow'

c) grow selection by 2 (stroke)

d) fill with black and deselect

e) Gaussian Blur by 14

f) offset the layer by 4/4

g) reduce Opacity to 70%

10. and we are done !