In this tutorial you will learn how to make an electric text effect with a bit frighty look.
It’s a nice effect. You can use as an entry to some video, in header, forum signature…everywhere.
1. Make a new document, width 300 px, height 250 px. BG color white
2. Use Horizontal Type Tool (T) and write some text.
I used Accidental Presidency.
3. Hold CTRL and click to your text layer at layers tab to make a selection around your text.
Now hide your text layer and click to bacground layer. Selection must always stay.
4. Now go to Edit -> Stroke…
and fill with following settings.
Hit CTRL + D to deselect and ahead to step 5.
5. Go to Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian blur and set slider to 4. This depends on how big is your text.
6. Go to Filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds.
Hit CTRL + I to invert and voila!
Now you can play with colors (CTRL + U), levels, curves…etc.
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January 16th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Hello. Thanks for this tutorial. I’m a very beginner with Photoshop, and with this tutorial I’ve learnt a very cool, easy effect. It was very useful to me. Although I’ve got no much time, I’d really love to translate this —and other— tutorials to Spanish, because it was a little difficult to me to follow this tutorial because my Photoshop version is in Spanish; so… God bless you, and as I alway say: Go forth.
January 16th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Hello Leonardo. Thanks for your support.
In the near future I’l install traslation plugin so then you’ll be easy to translate.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:17 am
hwy this is pretty darn cool! I’m using it possibly for my band, so here’s credit to you!
January 17th, 2008 at 5:46 am
thanks leonard!
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:55 am
hi it tried it but it does’nt work. dont know why. plz help
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Hi Ibrahim, welcome, where did you stop? on which step?
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm
very nice.thanks, but its coming along with the background. is there any posibility to show this effect for the text alone instead of applying it for the whole page. need your reply. thanks once again for all ur efforts.
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Hello vjfactor, It can’t be just text. Only thing you could to is to crop your text from the bacground in the end.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Thank you so much dear, very useful, and nicely explained. in hope of your future achievements.
February 5th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Hello! this is amazing & cool Effec, nicely explaind & easy. i love photoshop. i hope you will continue to give us cool & nice Effects.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Thanks Alishah, I will do my best!
February 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am
cool effect man…may end up using it
for my website.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Hi. Tutorial works great right up to the point where you try and change colours. That bit doesn’t work for me. I want to keep the end colours used in the original sample. How can I do that and have a black background?? Thanks
February 7th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Hue & Saturnation - CTRL + U
February 8th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Easy and useful
February 9th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Sweet. I feel the instructions are a little hard to follow but I figured it out and it turned out awesome! Thanks.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Hi, I tried this tutorial out, I did everything that it said in the tut, and it didn’t work at all, I am using Photoshop CS3, and like I said, I followed the tut doing everything that you said above, and it just wouldn’t work, all I was left with was a black background and my text???
February 10th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Hi Dave,
I’m not using CS3 version, but if you followed each step like I said it must work.
Please read this tutorial once again carefully.
Thank you
February 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Hey, tried to get it to work but the guassion blur seems to totally massacre it :/
February 17th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I made the effect, but how do you made outline around the text?
February 17th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
You gotta follow all tutorial steps correctly and you will get the same result as I.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
what do you mean by hiding my text layer
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 am
Hello Danny, You must make your text layer invisible by clicking an eye icon near your text layer.
March 6th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I’m only 16 and i own a website business. However, i have a small problem. I use school computers because i can’t do it at home. if i download Photoshop i am in trouble, so if you could make a site on how to do it on Microsoft FrontPage, or just reply and tell me how to do this w/o Photoshop on frontpage, i would greatly appreciate it.
Thank u very much
April 4th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
very good
April 6th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Good tutorial.. ( wah pokoké jan siip markosip.. )