Photo shop trick #3

Hey there everyone!

I don’t know what happened to the images that went with this tutorials, please stand by while I fix this error. Sorrry for the  inconveniance.
I hope everyone is enjoying the tutorials so far. Today I will outline the steps necessary to create cool diamond ‘bling’ text. You can use this technique on any type you choose.
Step one

Start by typing out some large text with a boxy or bold type font. In order to make this text editable we have to rasterize it, so right click on the layer palette and choose ‘Rasterize layer’.

Step two
Make a selection around the text, you can do this easily by grabbing the magic wand tool and clicking somewhere on the transparent background, and then going to Select and Invert Selection. Now press “D” to reset to black default color.

Second part is to go to Filter, Render, Clouds (If the render menu is not available make sure you are in RGB mode.)

Step three
Now this is where we create the diamond effect. Go back to Filter, then Distort and Glass. Choose the tiny lens option and scale it down quite small. You can try the settings I’ve chosen here. Then click OK.

Step four

We now we’ve made the diamond look. To really make this ‘pop’, it look good to create a golden border. It’s really reasy.

Step five

Apply a layer style to the layer, (the last little icon on the bottom of the layers pallet) choose stroke.
Follow my settings; Position = Center and Fill type = Gradient, (choose the default copper setting)
Make the size 10

Step six

Click on the Bevel and emboss option
Choose “Stroke Emboss” this will apply the bevel to the stroke we just made.
Crank the Depth up and set the size for the same as the stroke:10
Change the gloss contour until you get something that looks nice and metallic.
Click OK

Step Seven

Here we have our basic effect. We just need to adjust the color to make it look more like gold.
Step eight

Step 8

Apply a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and push the saturation all the way up to 100
Tweak the hue until you get a nice gold color.

Step nine

Last thing we need to do is add some sparkles, but first, in order to work with our text, we have to merge the text layer and adjustment layer. Click on the text layer, press shift and click on the adjustment layer, then go to Layer and Merge Visible.

Now we can load the ‘assorted’ brush set that comes with Photoshop. Choose the X type brush and add your sparkling last touch! That’s it!