Spotlight

Posted by fanatic on March 17, 2008

Spotlight Special Effect.

Start with a large #420000 colored canvas, in your layers window make a new layer set and name it Spotlight Special Effect. Choose your rounded rectangle tool with a 20 px radius, in a new layer draw a 40 x 23 pixels, white rounded rectangle. Then go to Edit > Transform > Rotate as shown below.

With your step one layer add the following layer styles:

Create a new layer and draw a 137 x 77 pixels, black rounded rectangle.

With your step three layer add a stroke layer style:

Now add some white light using your brush tool and some erasing, grab the psd here.

In a new layer draw a 20 x 20 pixels, white circle as shown below.

With your step six layer, set the layers blending mode to darken and add a gradient overlay layer style:

Choose your text tool and select font Eras Bold ITC from the font list. Set the size to 48 pt, crisp and white for color. In a new text layer type your name and position it by the light effect.

With your step eight text layer, set the blending mode to darken and add the following layer styles:

Spotlight Special Effect.