Cool text effect

This photoshop tutorial will teach you a really unique and great tehnique of creating a cool text effect using brushes and paths.

Cool text effect

Step 1.

Start of with a new document sized 600×600 with a black background. Add your text using a thin font. The thinner the better the result.

Step 2.

Go to the layer panel, right click the text layer and select – Create Work Path. This will convert the text into a pen tool path. Delete the text layer.

You should have the path only like below:

Step 3.

Go to the brush panel and select a Round angle low stiffness brush, sized 25.

Now Create a new layer, select the pen tool and set the color in the toolbar orange.

Once you selected the pen tool right click the design area and choose Stroke Path. This is what you should have:

Step 4.

Now basicaly we will have to repeat step 3. only change the brush size to 15 pixels, set the color white and create a new layer.

Right click the design area and choose Stroke path. This is the result:

Step 5.

Again repeat the step 4. and reduce the size of the brush to 8 pixels, create another new layer and choose a blue color.

Right click the design area and choose Stroke path. This is the result:

Step 6.

Repeat the step with a 3 pixels sized brush and white colour again on a new layer. This is how it should look like :

On the last layer add a Drop shadow:

And a Gradient Overlay:

This is how it looks:

Copy the layer styles to the rest of the layers:

Enhance the design more by messing with the background :

Thank you for following the tutorial, please don`t hesitate to comment or ask for directions if stuck anywhere.

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