Create Sci-Fi Text in Photoshop

Create Sci-Fi Text in Photoshop

Open up a new canvas size 600×300.
Choose gradient tool gradient and use these settings.
First, select radial radial, now use this colors.
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Now with gradient tool create radial background.
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Now we’ve got this.
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First, download this font.
orbitron

Select Text tool and use “Orbitron (OT1) font and type in something. Size : 65, style : Black.
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Noew we’re going to use a stone texture.
Open up stone texture and place it under text layer and change blending to overlay and opacity 60%.
It should look like this.
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Now we will edit text.
Right click on text layer and select “Blending options”
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Now open up new texture.
Put texture to the top.
While texture layer is selected Ctrl+click on the thumbnail of the text layer. Now, go to select-inverse-delete.
Put blending to soft light, opacity 20%
Use this texture and repeat previous step
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I made this weird texture but it’ll be very useful.Place in under the text layer and change its blending to color dodge, opacity 7%, sharpen it twice and remove with eraser parts you don’t like.
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Now, duplicate text layer and place that copy under original text layer.
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Now select copy layer and and use “Alt-down-left” arrow to achieve 3D effect.
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Merge all “copy” layers, CTRL+E, and go to Blending options.
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You can apply mirror effect if you want.
Now, create new layer and apply image.
Apply lighting effect, blur and sharpen, add stroke if you want and you’re done :D .

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16 Responses to “Create Sci-Fi Text in Photoshop”

  1. Bilal Ali says:
    June 23, 2010 at 11:35 pm

    gr8 tut.. thanks man.. :)

  2. admin says:
    June 24, 2010 at 2:57 am

    Glad you like it.

  3. rajesh says:
    June 25, 2010 at 9:18 am

    hi… can u tell where to put downloaded font.. thks for great tut……

  4. admin says:
    June 25, 2010 at 9:58 am

    Once you downloaded the font, paste it in C:/Windows/Fonts :)

  5. rajesh says:
    June 30, 2010 at 9:13 am

    hi, a message is getting displayed saying file is invalid or corrupt when i paste in “C:/Windows/Fonts”.

  6. K says:
    June 30, 2010 at 10:40 pm

    Great tut, everything explained well. I’m having trouble with this sentence though

    “While texture layer is selected Ctrl+click on the thumbnail of the text layer. Now, go to select-inverse-delete.”

    Do I select the pixels, inverse the selection, then delete the selection? When I do this, the text changes instead of the background.

    Thanks

  7. admin says:
    July 1, 2010 at 7:58 am

    Ok, I uploaded pics how to do it :)

    1: http://imgur.com/o4jk8.jpg

    2: http://i.imgur.com/f70oW.jpg

    3: http://i.imgur.com/IPgzN.jpg

    third step select-inverse-delete, CTRL+D

    Hope that helps .

  8. BedaDunia Creaion says:
    August 14, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    Awesome

  9. admin says:
    August 15, 2010 at 4:16 am

    Thank you

  10. TutorialPortals says:
    August 17, 2010 at 5:27 am

    Great tutor man! will added in my tutorial list soon :)

  11. admin says:
    August 17, 2010 at 10:07 am

    Thank you :)

  12. asep effendhy says:
    August 18, 2010 at 6:37 am

    good job
    I Like it

  13. J says:
    August 20, 2010 at 5:52 am

    I do not really understand this line (I am new to Photoshop):

    “Now select copy layer and and use “Alt-down-left” arrow to achieve 3D effect.”

    How do I do this? If I select the copied layer and press “Alt-down-left” nothing happens. I use Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended if that matters.

  14. admin says:
    August 20, 2010 at 7:31 am

    That’s 3D effect, Alt+down arrow, then Alt+left arrow, again Alt+down, alt+left, until you’re happy with result ;)

  15. Dularl says:
    August 29, 2010 at 11:05 am

    If alt+down does not work try AltGr+down

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