Today we are going to work on some text effect techniques, just that. I would like to start from creating several text lines and give them some effects. I suppose 1 is going to be Chrome like, metal like, and shall we say bubble or balloon like, maybe water; we’ll see as we start. I really don’t know how to create these, but I do know how metal looks like and I do also know how layer styles work, so let’s experiment together.

So first create a new Document, let’s say 1024x 768. Create 3 separate layers with words: metal chrome and jelly (the words are not really important here).

So our first layer is metal, let’s see what out layer styles can do.

So I have finished my work with Metal and here is the result (I have also changed the Font to match theme).

Remember that our effect is still incomplete; it will be post produced using Wacom tablet.

Now let’s take care of our second Specimen) ? Chrome. Now the most important here is to know Tonal Gamma OF Chrome. Its Tonal Gamma differs a lot from other for example matte surfaces. So let’s do it. Man. It’s very hard to do it using layer styles. So I just use my tablet to paint it by hand.

Rasterize the layer. Tap on the layer holding the ALT key to select the layer and begin to paint.

Brushes:

Step 1 ?black reflections

Then I suggest to use some blur (using the blur tool) (R) ?.. continue the painting.

Well here we have ? a have also used some layer styles on this one.

Result:

+ a have erased a little bit . (IMHO).

Now our final subject ? JELLY for this one I will use a lot of layer styles. So be careful I set the Overall layer fill to about 15%-18% and used these layer styles (Overall blending mode is lighten).

So this is nearly finished. Some Eraser manipulations on our METAL (rasterize layer), free background and we are Done.

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I?ve cropped the file for better composition.

Enjoy and Experiment!