Photoshop allows you to create a variety of visual effects to give a certain style to your lettering and graphics. For example, using Photoshop you can easily create text with ice, fire or water texture. Let's consider a few simple steps to create an inscription in Photoshop in the form of volumetric drops.
Instructions
Step 1
Create a new document in Photoshop and write any word in a suitable font on a white background. Select the Brush tool from the toolbar and paint on the letters and around them with rounded and elongated free-form drops.
Step 2
Click on any of the layers with the right mouse button and select Flatten Image to merge the drops and text layers. Open the Channels palette and create a channel mask by dragging the thumbnail of any of the channel layers onto the New Channel thumbnail. Press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + I to invert the channel.
Step 3
Create a background image for the text - create a new document and turn on the display of the grid (View> Show Grid). Then enable the Snap To Grid option. Focusing on the grid, draw the document into squares and fill them with light blue and dark blue alternately in a checkerboard pattern.
Step 4
Select the background and save it as a texture by choosing the Define Pattern option from the Edit menu. Now open the lettering document again and set the background fill by choosing the created texture (Pattern). Temporarily turn off the letters layer by clicking on the eye icon next to the layer and then open the Filter menu. In the Render section, select the Lighting Effects option. Set the lighting of the background texture to make it look more interesting.
Step 5
Now connect the letters layer again and copy the channel. Make the channel active, then open the Filter menu and select the Gaussian Blur option with a blur radius of 6 pixels. Now open the Image menu and open the Levels section. Adjust Input levels as follows: 36, 1.00, 54.
Step 6
Create a new layer, fill it with white and load the copied channel with letters by choosing the Load Selection option from the Select menu. Fill the selection with black on the letters layer and then delete the selection.
Step 7
Make the letters volumetric by blurring them with the Gaussian Blur filter, then in the filters menu open the Stylize> Emboss section, setting the Angle: - 45, Height: 6 and Amount: 100%. After that, open the Adjust section in the Image menu and select Curves.
Step 8
Set the appropriate Input - Output Levels values to make the image even larger. You can also add volume to the letters using the Artistic> Plastic Wrap filter. Set the letters layer as active and change the blending mode of the background and the letters layer to Hard Light. Use the Deplace Filter to create a light refraction effect in transparent letters.
