Day 211: Frozen Text

Here is an oldschool text effect that a ton of my students have done. I now understand why they gravitated to this one (It took less than ten minutes to do). I like the frozen ice pattern I found for the background but the overall look is weak.

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Day 210: Spacy Glows and Brushes

I went off a bit from the tutorial choosing to use different brushes and effects. I like the glow but am starting to think I'm overusing the Lens Flare :)

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Day 209: 90's Text

The colors and geometric shape reminds me of the early 90's MTV type of style... may be a bit of a stretch. Anyways, the text effect itself was not overly complex (composed primarily of layer styles) but the background was way more work that I expected. The overall appearance is ok but not spectacular.

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Day 208: Sparkle Text

I'm back to doing some text effect tutorials in order to bank some for the next few days while I'm out of town. The effect is a simple scattered brush appliet to a path. The background is two separate gradients, a grunge stripe texture, a lens flare and white watercolor brush.

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Day 207: Broken Glass

Interesting effect but a sloppy extraction. I'm trying to play catchup from the days I missed during Comic-Con and I don't like the sloppy cuts. Ah well....

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Day 206: The River Doctor

Gritty, yoked and full of wisdom... liquefied, high pass filters, blurs and curves.

Day 205: Chalkboard Writing

I created a custom brush to simulate chalk. I created a path of the text and applied the stroke to the path. A few tweaks with some noise and blurs combined with a soft vignette finished off the quick design.