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Let’s create some sexy looking text! I’ve never really used this type of style on anything I’ve ever made but hey, you might like and it decide you want to use it. This tutorial is very simple and shouldn’t cause anyone any problems at all.

Create a new document, any size, I’m using 720×540 to give me plenty of room to work with. Set your background to #EEEEEE and your foreground to #FFFFFF. I know these colors are very light but it won’t be like this when we’re done.

Make a selection of text on your canvas, I’ve chose to write Sconner in this tutorial, you write whatever you like.

So that’s my text, I’ve used Arial Black as my font, to be quite honest you can use any font you like, you’ll always get the same text effect.

So, on your layer we want to add some styles, so set the following styles on your text:

Be sure you get the color overlay right or it might look a little silly - #D15400 is the hex incase you can’t read the font.

So you’ve set the style? Brilliant, it should look a little something like this:

Groovy baby! Now all we need to do is add the finishing touches, so CTRL+CLICK the text layer then go to Select>Modify>Contract and set the contract to 2px (Depending on your text size this might be more than 2px or for smaller fonts it’d be 1px)

You should have something looking like this:

So now you have this you should create a new layer above the text and grab your Paint Bucket tool and fill it with #FFFFFF (white)

Once you have done this, press CTRL+D to deselect the later and you should end up with something a little like this:

Now on this layer, set the opacity to 30% and it should turn very
faint. This looks good so you can keep it like that OR you can go for a
more shiny effect.

Here’s mine:

If you want the shiny effect then go ahead and use your Elliptical
Marquee Tool and highlight the section you want deleted like this:

Done that? Simply press delete and it’ll delete the section for you. Here’s my finished product: