Electric Ice Text Tutorial

[Slash]

We are going to create this electric ice text:



Step 1

Open a new RGB document (I made it 300*200px) and type your text in white on a black background. Rasterize the text layer.


Step 2

Select your text layer (CTRL + click on layer icon).

Inverse the selection (Shift + CTRL + I).

Fill the selection with black (Shift + F5).

Hit CTRL + D to deselect.

Now use the magic wand tool to select all letters of our text (hold down Shift).

Use Filter --> Blur --> Gaussian Blur with a radius of 3.


Step 3

Apply Filter --> Stylize --> Solarize

Apply Auto Levels (Shift + CTRL + L) to make it look better

It should look something like this now:



Hit CTRL + D to deselect.

Step 4

Use Filter --> Stylize --> Wind from the left.

Rotate Canvas bei 90 degree (Image --> Rotate Canvas) and do it again (CTRL - F)

Repeat until you applied wind in all 4 possible positions and the canvas is rotated back to normal position.

Now use Filter --> Stylize --> Glowing Edges with these settings:


It should look like this now:


Step 5

Last step

Hit CTRL-U to bring up the Hue / Saturation box and choose a color similar to this:



This is about what you will get:

[Desperatesoulz]

nice very nice and very simple

[provingunique]

Font Used is "Army Expanded" thanks for the tutorial!

[provingunique]

might i add, when doing this dont try to use fonts that are too close together the wind filter will make them almost undistinguishable

[manbearpig]

Slash did contribute to the site!

[joshbond]

Originally Posted by bbows

Slash did contribute to the site!

Yep, once.
What ever happened to that guy anyway? Very strange.

[wingwing999]

i have deselected the all layers
and i can't apply filter->solarize->wind
the option is grey

[Aussie Avenger]

can i get a bit of help from a n00b to photoshop please, when it says "(CTRL + click on layer icon)", what is the layer icon because i can't find it. Any help would b great

[joshbond]

I just tried it and had the same problem. It may be that were using a different version than he was.

I did figure out what to do though.

grab the magic wand selection tool and click anywhere in the black so it selects everything but the text, then press ctrl shift I to invert the selection, thus selecting only the text.

[mashby]

It's a row in the Layers Palette. Control-clicking it selects all content in the layer.

[joshbond]

Originally Posted by joshbond

I just tried it and had the same problem. It may be that were using a different version than he was.

I did figure out what to do though.

grab the magic wand selection tool and click anywhere in the black so it selects everything but the text, then press ctrl shift I to invert the selection, thus selecting only the text.

Actually I had this backwords. You want to select everything but the text and then fill that text layer with black.

[Keb]

Originally Posted by Aussie Avenger

can i get a bit of help from a n00b to photoshop please, when it says "(CTRL + click on layer icon)", what is the layer icon because i can't find it. Any help would b great

This is the layer Icon:

[Aussie Avenger]

thanks for the help guys, i've done it now, much kudos

[mashby]

Really, what you need to do is grab a bag of Doritos and a few brews and think about your effect on the environment. That may keep you up at night at which point you'll realize that holding down the Control key and clicking the layer in the palette area will select everything that's in the layer that's not transparent.