Online Tools and Services. The Glossy TEXT web2.0 style « photoshopit. Remember – reading and doing is the best way to learn…anyways…Today I will be talking about and even giving some tips about the “way too famous” Glossy text EFFECT – something like this: over used on web2.0 logos…but how can it not be – it is just so NICE! – I am sure you have all seen it out there – I also know that there are many more than one way to do this effect – that is one of the countless awesome things about photoshop. “To each his own”. NOw here is how this will work. I will give detailed explanations – along with one image of the whole process – and if that still dont work you are free to take the psd -and use it however you like. Anyone who is using a mac it is COMMAND instead of CTRL. Here goes: 1. using the Type tool – write out the text that you want to glossify . Keep in mind that most of these text effects are very bad for running text but rather for titles, logos, headlines etc.. 2.
While the “gloss” layer is selected. 3. Now go get the eliptical marquee tool. Design | Creating Badges. A couple of days ago we had a forum entry on how to create badges, like those used on Bartelme Design to indicate new entries. So here is a short description of how to create them using Adobe Photoshop. The best choice to create a badge like form is to use one of Photoshop’s basic shape tools. Activating the “Polygon Tool” in the tool palette (1) and define the number of sides of the polygon in the properties pane at the top of the screen (2). In our case a number between 26 and 30 will be ideal. If you now draw a polygon, you will just get a circle like shape — so we have to define further settings. Click the arrow button (3) next to the input field, in which we have just defined the number of sides, in order to reveal a drop down menu holding further polygon related options.
Activate the checkbox “Star” (4) and define some indent (5). If you now draw a polygon the result should look similar to the one displayed in the screenshot below.