Give your Text a Glossy Highlight

June 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

8. After it is selected, fill it with white by setting your background color to white and holding down SHIFT+Backspace.
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9. While you’re still on your white filled layer, Ctrl+Click the text layer and you should have your text selected like this. After it is selected, Ctrl+SHIFT+I to select the outside, then press backspace. The white outside the text will be gone, then you just lower the opacity to around 25%.
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This was my finished result:
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Hope you enjoyed reading this!

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Alexander Gartley // Jul 16, 2007 at 9:13 am

    sweet, thanks for the tutorial. I think a few of the steps could have been done in easier ways, but the result is the same. thanks for sharing this!

  • 2 Aaron // Jul 17, 2007 at 11:14 am

    Step 7 was a little vague. I’m using CS3 and I had to figure out a different way to do this. Otherwise this is pretty cool and simple.

    Thanks

  • 3 moca // Sep 11, 2007 at 12:15 am

    Wooh!
    It’s very useful!
    Thank you very much.

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