Glossy Text Photoshop Tutorial
January 16, 2007 by Oli · 12 Comments
This is our second tutorial on the subject of making glossy text, this is another simple technique you can use for website headers or logos with just a few layer effects.
View our other gloss text tutorial.
To start off, make a gradient background and add your text to it in the typeface of your choice – for this tutorial we have used Franklyn Gothic Heavy :
Once your text is created, right click the text layer in the layer window and select ‘blending options’ and apply the following effects :
Next up, select the pen tool and draw zig-zag accross the text like so :
Make the lines join up and then right click and choose ‘make selection’ from the box that appears :
Fill the selection with a white to blue gradient, then hold down ctrl + click on the text layer in the layer window and you will have :
Then choose select > inverse from the menu and press delete and you will be left with this:
Now just take the opacity down on the highlight layer to this setting:
That is the final step, you should now have some nice glossy text :
You can also download the psd for this tutorial.
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Awesome look. I love it
Does not work…cant get past the:
“Then choose select > inverse from the menu and press delete and you will be left with this :”
I can not get the selection with the ctrl+click, what am i doing wrong here?
Hi,
On the step where I make a selection with the pen tool and then try to do a gradient fill, I get the following message:
“Could not use the gradient tool because the content of the layer is not directly editable.”
Any thoughts what I’m doing wrong? Thanks.
its fine
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This is a great look. easily done
As Mike said before, when trying to use the gradient on a pen selection, I get “Could not use the gradient tool because the content of the layer is not directly editable.†Any help would be appreciated.
Very nice tutorial thanks.
i got it to work, but you have to know you way around photoshop to get it to work. first all you have to resterize the pen path, than you can create gradient. than ctrl + click did not really work for me, so i selected text with magic wand and got it to work. thanks for the tutorial helped me a lot
Nice tutorials.
Cheers!
Nice tutorial im going through alot of your tutorials and i think they are all great. Give me a view of what i may need to do on my site to.