Date added: 23 Jun 2007
Listed in: Text Effects
Submitted by: sumsar
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In this tutorial we are going to be making this:





First of all open up your canvas, I chose 500 x 120 as this is perfect for my text. Now place your text using the "Horizontal Type Tool".





Too plain? Ok open up your blending options, do this by right clicking on your layer and choose "Blending Options..." at the top and configure with the following settings:











This will give you the following result. Of course you can choose different gradient settings.





Now it's time to add some gloss to your text, this is easily done. With white as your foreground colour select the "Eclipse Tool" (right click the icon under the "Horizontal Text Tool") and create an eclipse like this:





To get this looking right, change the opacity of your eclipse layer to 20% (drop down menu above the layers) and then right click the layer and choose "Rasterize Type". It should now look like this:





Staying on the Rasterize Type hold down Ctrl + right click on the text layer. It should look like this:





Now choose Select >>> Inverse at the top and then press delete. You should now have glossy text.





Time to add the reflection. First of all we need to merge our layers together, do this by right clicking your layer and select "Merge Visible", or use Shift + Ctrl + E. Doing this will prevent you from messing up your glossy effect. Duplicate your merged layer by right clicking the layer and selecting "Duplicate Layer". Now click your duplicated layer (top layer) and click Ctrl + T.





Below your Help menu at the top there is a properties dialog, copy these settings:





Which results in:





Now tap the down arrow a couple of times until you have something like this:





Then hit the "Add Layer Mask" setting, , located below your list of layers.

Finally, get your gradient tool (press G) and choose the following gradient settings
then hold down Shift and pull your mouse upwards and you should get the following result:





Well done, Simple eh? :)