Introduction
So to begin with I guess you will want to see the finished result.
Well as always I'm going to show you the finished product, you want to start by downloading this tutorial pack which contains the font we are using and the psd off the end result.
Step 1
Create a new image 400 x 140 px and make the background colour #024D60. Select the text tool and then set your text tool to the following settings, the colour being used is the same as before #024D60.
Now click on the background and type in whatever you want, after this it will look like nothings been typed thats because the two colours are the same, if you hide the background layer you can see the text.
Step 2
Now we want to add the layer effects, so make the background layer visble agian and lets put a drop shadow on the text layer. Use the following settings.
Now add an outer glow using the following settings. The colour used is #11B4C3
Now we are going to add a bevel and emboss and the colours are #0E68BB and #0E5363 (top to bottom).
Nearly done, only two more effects left. We have to put a gradiant overlay on now. The colours used are #3DA3BA and #086494 (left to right).
and finnally a stroke.
Now we should have something that looks like this.
Step 3
Now we need to add the middle off the letters, select the magic wand tool and click in the middle off the letters while holding ctrl.
Then fill it in using #2EBFCB and then reapply the steps in step 2 to this layer to get the final result.
The download pack is here.
Arutha