Photoshop 5.5 tutorial - [ Beginners & Intermediate Users]
Creating Alien stylish text - Text
Manupulation
Description: It converts the normal text in to alien stylish text.
To do this text manupulation, do the following,
1. Open a new document by pressing Ctrl+N (or File >> New). Specify
the image document dimensions as Width=400, Height=150, Mode=RGB and Contents=Background
Color and click Ok as below showned figure.

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2. (Note: Reset to forground color=BLACK and background=WHITE color by
pressing "D"). Create a New Layer by pressing SHIFT+CTRL+N and
fill with "Back" Color. Again, create a New Layer by pressing
SHIFT+CTRL+N. Now, select "just" created Layer as shown in figure.
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3. Select "Type Mast Tool" and click on the "Layer 2".
A Dialog Box appears. Specify the Type Mask Tool's Size=80. Type some
text. (I typed "BHMK", just as example) and click Ok.

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4. Now fill with "Red" color as shown in the figure.
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5. Now, you have like this (shown in the figure).

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6. Still you selected the text. Make it Feather by selecting SELECT >>
FEATHER and Feather Radius=2 and click Ok as shown in the figure.

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7. It's time to make some effects. Goto Select >> Inverse. Goto
Filter >> Blur >> Radial Blur and enter the values as follows
(Amount=100, Blur Method=ZOOM Selected and Quality=Best Selected). You
will see below figure.
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Note: If you are not satisfied with the above
effect, again do Step 7. Repeat until you get your desired effect.
That's all my dear friends. Hope You Enjoyed It!!!
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