I will show you how to do this effect in few simple steps with photoshop. First of all, after opened the program, create a new document 500*300 of dimension and blank background. Choose the Type toll and write your text, for this example I’ve used Georgia like font and a dimension of 48pixels, but you can do this in the way that you prefer. The image now is something like this :

text reflection with photoshop

Duplicate the text level, you can do this from the level menu – duplicate layer or directly from the layers windows, right click on the layer and choose duplicate. With the new duplicated layer selected go to the edit menu and choose – transform -flip vertical, and drag down the level (with the move tool ) until the down limit of the first level, like this image :

duplicat level and drag down

Add a layer mask to the duplicated level , clicking on the 3º button from the left, down in the layers window.

add a layer mask

Now choose the gradient tool, and in the palette color choose black to white and trace a vertical line that start from the lower point of the duplicated level until the start of the text of the original level, look the image to understand what I want to say :

gradient tool

The results will be this

And finally low the opacity of the layer to 30% and that’s all!

The text reflection is ready. This effect is applied to the photoshop fire text tutorial, in the final part to make the reflection.
Hasta Luego!

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The are is a tipical graphic elements of the web 2.0, a lots of site use the badge. Usually I see that are used a lots in the Header of the pages, some in the logos, with reflection text, anyway, this give to your website a little touch of 2.0.

If you don’t want to make your own badge but you want something like “download and use”, you can download a fantastic badge sets, psd source included, from Dezinerfolio, a great blog with a lots of free resource, one of my favorite blog.

Open Photoshop and create a a new document 300*300 px with blank background.

From the Tools Palette, choose the Polygon tool, and use these settings :

badge 2.0

Now draw the badge usig #dc0b0b like first color now you have this :

badge

Now go to blending options (right click on the layer in the layers window) and use these settings :

Drop shadow opacity 50% , distance 5 spread 0 size 15

Bevel and emboss size 2 soften 0 direction up

stroke size 5 position inside color #FFFFFF

And this should the result :

badge settings

Now we need to create the blur on the top of the badge. With the elliptical marquee tool, make a selection in the top left corner of the badge and create a new layer from the layer menu :

Switch the main color to white and select the gradient tools and from the gradient color menu choose foreground to transparent and trace a line from the top left corner to the bottom right corner of the badge, after deselect all, ctrl +d and apple+d in mac, go to the layers window and low the opacity to 35% and fill to 75%, this should be the results :

badge

Finally you can personalize the badge on your way :

badge 2.0 with photoshop

Enjoy!

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Write your text using white color for the text.

text on fire

Now duplicate the text layer from the menu layer – duplicate layer. Now go on the level window and deselect the original layer, so we can see only the new duplicated layer, like this :

hide original text layer

Now go on layer menu and select : merge visible, so we will have only two layers, the original text and another layer from the background and the copied layer, this last is the layer were we will work on.

merge visible layer

Now rotate the canvas using the menu : Image – image rotation – 90 º CCW.

rotate canvas

Now is time to use the Photoshop filters. Go to Filter -Stylize – Wind and apply this settings :

wind filter photoshop

Reapply the filter another 2 times, with ctrl+f or command +f if you are using a Mac, until you will have an image like this :

the wind filter

Now rotate again the image, on 90º CW to reput the text on original position and apply the Filter blur – Gaussian blur with a radius of 1.5, or more it depend how do you want the fire effect), here the settings of the blur filter :

blur filter settings

Apply this filter another time and we have this image :

blur filter photoshop

Now it’s coming the more personalized part .. So we’re going to use the liquify Filter, the results depend on your “hands” , this effect is to make the Flames, so use the filter at better, you can learn something about this filter at this links. This is my image with the flames.

flames

Now go to the menu : image – Hue/Saturation and apply this settings (remember to click on colorize):

hue settings

The results will be something like this :

text fire hue settings

Now duplicate the level and , in the new level, reapply the HUE/SATURATION but this time without click on colorize and use these settings :

hue/saturation

Now with this new level selected go in the window levels and choose , from the select menu,Color Dodge (always with the background copy selected).

merge levels

You will have an images like this

fire

Now show the original text layer, and go to blending options ( right click directly form the layer window and choose blending options), and apply a gradient (I’ve used grey to black) and outer glow and inner glow, better if you use yellow like color for this last inner and outglow. Finally you will have something like this :

fire text photoshop

And this is the fire text!

But we can do something better now. We can make this text more web 2.0, adding some nice effect used today in web 2.0.

For example a reflection and create something like this :

fire text 2.0

On the next tutorial I will explain how to create this reflection effects.

Hasta Luego!

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I want to start with a simple tutorial for Photoshop, how to manipulate the weather and add rain to a sunny day on the beach.
So… Let’s start with my first post on lastwebdesigner.com.
This is a simple tutorial on how to make a rain effect on a photo, in 6 simple step, using Photoshop.
First of all, we need a Photo to use and modify, I’ve used this :

rain effect photoshop

Open this photo with photoshop.

1. Create a new layer : Menu layer -> new layer from the menu :

Create a new layer with Photoshop

2. Filter – Render – Clouds

Add clouds filter

3. Change the opacity to 65%.

Low the opacity level

4. Filter – Noise – Add noise, using this parameters :

add noise filter

5. Filter – blur – motion blur and use this settings :

add motion blur filter

6. Finally, from the select menu on the left of the levels window choose “overlay”.

rain effect photoshop

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