Making a pressed in text effect in GIMP. Fun Easy Gel Text Effect With Layer Styles. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we’re going to learn how to use Layer Styles to easily create a gel text effect. The great thing is that you can have lots of fun playing around with the Layer Style settings to create your own custom gel text effect, or if you prefer, you can use the settings I’m using in the tutorial. When we’re done creating the effect, we’re going to save it as a preset style which we can then apply to other text instantly, and at the end, we’ll see how to change the color of the effect, which may not be quite as straightforward as you think.
Here’s the gel text effect we’re going for: The final “gel text” result. Let’s get started! Step 1: Open A New Photoshop Document Go up to the File menu at the top of the screen and choose New… to bring up Photoshop’s New Document dialog box and enter a width and height for your document. Create a new document in Photoshop. Step 2: Choose A Color For Your Text Step 3: Enter Your Text. Shiny golden text effext on silk in GIMP - GIMP tutorial. Engraved Text | Text Effects. 1. Make sure you have black as you forground colour and apply the text on a seperate layer. 2. Copy the text layer and change the colour on the text to white. Move the text 1 pixel down and 1 pixel to the right using the arrow keys.
Change the layer mode from Normal to Soft Light. 3. Photoshop Text Effects Archives.