Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make Shiny Text and Reflect it on a Dark Surface

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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I'm going to show you how to create a

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simple but effective text reflection

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create a new document by pressing ctrl +

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on windows or command n on a Mac make

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the width 1550 pixels the height 870

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pixels and the resolution 150 pixels per

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inch if your foreground and background

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colors aren't black and white press D on

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your keyboard invert the colors by

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pressing X fill the background with the

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background color by pressing ctrl or

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command + delete open your horizontal

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type tool and pick a font I'm using

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American captain regular if you'd like

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to use it I provided its link in the

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video description for this font I'll

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choose a size of a hundred sixty points

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sharp Center alignment and the color is

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white click on the center of your

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document and type out your text to

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reposition it open your move tool and

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move it let's save it as a smart object

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so if we decide to change the text later

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we won't have to redo most of the

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effects that we'll be adding to it click

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on the icon at the upper right of the

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layers panel and click convert to smart

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object click the FX icon and click bevel

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and emboss check contour the style is

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inner bevel and the technique is chisel

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hard the depth is a hundred percent the

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direction is up and the size is five

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pixels open the gloss contour presets

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and click this icon this contour is

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called ring

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leave the other settings at their

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default positions click gradient overlay

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open your gradient presets and click the

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black to white thumbnail the angle is 90

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degrees and reduce the opacity to sixty

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percent then click OK next we'll add a

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subtle art reflection on the front

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surface click the new layer icon to make

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a new layer go to view and make sure

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rulers and snap are checked if they

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aren't just click on them go to the left

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ruler and drag out a guideline to the

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center it'll snap in place because we

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have snapped checked if you don't see

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the guideline press ctrl or command H

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zoom out of your document by pressing

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ctrl or command + the minus sign on your

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keyboard open your elliptical marquee

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tool and place your cursor on the

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guideline approximately halfway between

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the top of your document and the top of

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your text hold down alt or option as you

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drag out an elliptical selection

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approximately this size and shape fill

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the selection with white which is the

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foreground color by pressing alt or

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option + delete to deselect it press

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ctrl or command D to see your document

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at a hundred percent again press ctrl or

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command one reduce its opacity to twenty

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percent we want to contain the

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reflection just inside the face of the

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text to do this ctrl-click or command

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click on the thumbnail of the text layer

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to make a selection of the text go to

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select modify and contract contract the

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selection by six pixels this contracts

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adjust to the face of the text click the

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layer mask icon to make a layer mask of

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the contracted selection the next series

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of steps

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will be to add the spotlight first let's

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place these two layers into a folder

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since they comprise the elements of just

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the text to do this shift-click on your

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text layer to highlight it now the text

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and its face reflection are both active

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press ctrl or command G to place them

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into a folder we're going to make a new

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layer below the folder go to the new

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layer icon and ctrl-click or command

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click on it to make a new layer below

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the active layer let's name it spotlight

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will fill the empty layer with white

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which is the foreground color by

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pressing alt or option + delete reduce

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its opacity to forty percent go to edit

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transform and perspective go to the top

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corner of the transform and drag it

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across approximately this much to accept

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it click the checkmark or press Enter or

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return go to filter blur and Gaussian

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blur blur it 100 pixels and click OK

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press ctrl or command H to hide the

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guideline next we'll brush over the

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bottom of the spotlight zoom out of your

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document again and click the layer mask

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icon to make a layer mask next to the

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spotlight open your brush tool and make

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the size approximately 800 pixels or the

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hardness of 0% make its opacity 50%

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press the f5 key at the top of your

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keyboard to open the brush presets make

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sure the only setting that's checked is

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smoothing press f5 again to close the

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panel now brush over the bottom a few

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times to gradually fade the spotlight in

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an arc-shaped then brush straight across

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the bottom to fade it even more to view

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it at a hundred percent press ctrl or

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command

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one next we'll add a shadow on the

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bottom of the text click the new layer

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icon to make a new layer let's name it

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shadow reduce the brush size to 20

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pixels and increase its opacity to

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ninety percent place your cursor on a

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lower corner of your text and hold down

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shift as you drag the brush across to

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the opposite corner holding down shift

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keeps the brush in a straight line click

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on your text folder to make it active

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and make a copy of it by pressing ctrl

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or command J named the top folder top

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text and the bottom folder reflection

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text go to edit transform and flip

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vertical go to the flip text and hold

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down shift as you drag it straight down

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until it's flush with the bottom of the

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other text reduce its opacity to twenty

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to thirty percent open the reflection

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text folder and double-click gradient

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overlay to see it in a layer style

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window check reverse which inverts the

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gradient overlay now the grading is

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correct on the flip text then click OK

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next we'll fade out the bottom of the

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reflection collapse the folder of the

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reflected text and click the layer mask

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icon to make a layer mask next to the

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folder press B to open your brush tool

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and increase the size to 800 pixels and

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make its opacity a hundred percent zoom

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out hold down shift and brush straight

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across the bottom of the reflection then

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fit your document back on your screen

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this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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thanks for watching

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you