18 Nov 2011

Create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text

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How to create an Impressive Greeting card with Neon New Year 2012 text in Photoshop CS5
Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop with the size 1900px by 1200px (RGBcolor mode) at a resolution of 300 pixels/inch. Select the background layer in Layers panel and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Gradient Overlay.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close theGradient Editor dialog box.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the next background:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Then we have to represent a plane surface, using the Rectangle Tool (U) draw the next rectangle.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to selectGradient Overlay.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close theGradient Editor dialog box.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the next result:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Insert the message text for greeting card. Select the Horizontal Type tool (T). Select a font, size and color in the Character panel.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Click in the canvas and type ’2012′. Press Enter to apply the text.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Set Fill to 0% for this layer and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to selectOuter Glow.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Add Bevel and Emboss:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Apply Color Overlay:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Add Satin:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the next result:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Create a new layer now and choose the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M) to make the next selection as shown.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Then apply the Paint Bucket Tool (G) to fill the selection with #0768B7 color. Place the layer under the layer containing the digits ’2012′.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Apply the next filter on layer: Filter >Blur > Gaussian blur:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
… and also Filter > Blur > Motion Blur:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
This way we’ll get the next shadow:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Make a copy of the last made layer and select the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to stretch out the copy’s layer vertically. The copy’s layer needs to be situated under the layer with the digits.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Represent now the shadow of white color, using the method described above. Apply on the shadow also the filters mentioned earlier also. The layer will be placed under the layer containing the digits.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Create now a new layer and select here the Soft Round brush.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Use this brush to paint the canvas with the color #88F4FF (set brush Opacity to 60% in Options bar). Place this layer under the layer with the 2012 digits.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Set the Blending mode for this layer to Color Burn.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Now we’ll create the next new layer, using the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) make the next selection.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
Now we have to paint the digits’ zone with the color #9EF9FF, select the Soft Round brush to paint inside the selection.
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the next result:
How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5

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