Posted on May 6th, 2008
Written by John and filed into the Brushes, Basics, Design category.
Now I am going to erase similar how we did earlier with the soft eraser brush to make the reflection. Grab a 100px soft brush and while holding shift erase the bottom portion of the text:
Now we are getting somewhere, looks pretty cool what do you think? Now for a few more touches I am going to add a few lighting sources to make it stand out a bit more.
Make a new layer right above your gradient background and draw a box behind the text using the same orange in your gradient. FIll up the black space with the block:
Now erase from the top up like we have been erasing other objects in this tutorial until you get something like this:
This just adds a little more depth to the image. A few more touches and we will be done. Make another new layer under your text and make a white oval like this:
Now go to filter>>blur>>gaussian blur and set it to about 45
pixels.
Result:
The whole point of that is for the next step in adding a shadow to the text. So go back to your blend option on the text and use a drop shadow with these settings:
My result now:
I think that looks good. My last final touch I am just going to add a lighting source coming from in front of the text since the shadow is showing behind the text.
Final result:
