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| In this tutorial, you will learn how to create slick looking laser beam (or ghost) type text. |
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Open a new image, about 300x300 pixels, black background, 16 million colors. |
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Set your background color to black and your foreground color to a light blue type color (I had Red = 65, Green = 154, Blue = 255). |
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Click on the New Layer icon in your layer palette to create a new layer for your text. |
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Click on the Text tool in your tool palette and then into the image. Type out a word or something. I had: Arial Rounded, 28 pt, Bold, Floating Selection, Antialias checked. |
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Center the text in your image and right-click to deselect.
Go to Image || Blur || Gaussian Blur and blur by 2. |
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Right-click on the current layer in your layer palette and choose "Duplicate" from the pop-up menu. Do that twice, and give these two layers the Dodge blend mode. The more times you duplicate these layers, the brighter the text will become. |
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To change the look of your text and make it look more like a laser beam, change the opacity on each layer. In the example on the left, I had an opacity of 85 for the topmost layer and an opacity of 60 for the second layer from top. |
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Hint: Try to experiment with this tutorial. Try to use it on other things beside text and see what you come up with! :) |
