-A tutorial showing how to make a shiny looking ice text. A cold frozen metal, under a sheet of transparent ice.

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a. Start with a 400 x 400 px image.

b. Choose a large, thick font. The size of the font I used was around 190.

c. Make your text in a light grey color.

d. Name your text layer "Ice"

 

2

a. Add this layer style to the Ice layer

3

a. Your Ice layer should now look like this.

4

a. Now make a new layer and move it under your ice layer. Like this:

b. Now merge the two layers. To do this make sure the Ice layer is selected, then go to Layer>Merge Down or Ctrl + E.

c. When you merge the 2 layers together the result will be named Layer # (number being some number, I can't say for sure on your project). Anyway rename this layer Ice

5

a. Now on the Ice layer, go to Image>Adjustments>Curves... or Ctrl + M and adjust it to these settings.

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a. Now adjust the color of the ice layer, go to Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation... or Ctrl + U

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a. Apply this layer style to the Ice layer (Layer>Layer Styles)

b. The color's code is 365383

 

 

-Your image should now look like this.

-We are done with the inner core of the ice text, on to the second page to make the outer shell of ice.