
1. Create a new document (400*150). We’re going to create a cool spooky text that can be used to print on halloween cards etc.
2. Fill the background with #000000 black using the paint bucket tool.
3. Now change your foreground color to white #FFFFFF and use your text tool and a very bold font (I used a font called cooper std) to type out some text like I did.
4. Now you should use your smudge tool with a rather small brush size and apply it on the text. make sure you first go to (layer - rasterize - layer). You can seee my result in the screenshot below…
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5. Now we’ll just have to add an outer glow with these settings and then we’re done with this tutorial! We’ve just created an extremely simple yet cool spooky text effect.





















