8. After it is selected, fill it with white by setting your background color to white and holding down SHIFT+Backspace.
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%.
This was my finished result:
Hope you enjoyed reading this!
5 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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5 rthepics // Jan 30, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Please can you do a tutorial on how to create fog on water surface as in some manipulated photos of beaches ?
like …
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/3037108878_451c2e1571.jpg
I know to make a waterfall look misty but i’ve got no idea about how to make water surface look misty…thanks !