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Summary: Tips for using gaussian blur Photoshop filter. Learn about filters and tools used to create Photoshop special effects text in this free Photoshop tutorial from a professional graphic designer.
Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more
"Now let's add a little bit more lighting effects to this. What we're going to do is, we have our white layer selected, as you see here. What we're going to do is, we're going to come up here and we're going to "Filter." Let's go to "Blur." Set Gaussian Blur, like so. Let's do it by-let's say we'll do it by five. That looks alright. We'll go ahead and hit "Ok" on that one. And now we're going to take the layer mode and change it. So, come up here to layer, and let's do-let's do overlay. There we go. Let's hit Command-D to deselect that. And, as you can see here, we've already got a nice chrome effect going on right now. So now, what we're going to do is, let's create a new layer. So let's grab our chrome layer that we have here. Let's just drag it down into our new layer palette. Let's grab it now. Ah, having problems here. Just grab it, drag it down to our new layer. There we go. We've created a copy now. Now let's select everything in it. So, let's hold down Command. There we go. Now we've selected all of our text. And what we'll do is, we'll pause here and come back to this in the next part."
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