Text Effects - Gem Text

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The DOWNLOAD file contains the font I used for this.

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Width: 300

Height: 200

Black background

.Select a foreground color of your choice, a bright "gem" color like ruby red, sapphire blue or emerald green. I picked red. Click the text tool and click on the pic and select a font. I picked American Text BT, Bold, size 36, make sure to check Floating. Click "Ctrl D" on your keyboard to deselect the text. Go to IMAGE>BLUR>BLUR MORE 2 times. Go to IMAGE>OTHER>DILATE 2 times. Go to IMAGE>DEFORMATIONS>WIND and use these settings...

Strength: 10

Check From Right

Click ok.

Go to IMAGE>DEFORMATIONS>WIND and use these settings...

Strength: 10

Check From Left

Click ok. Go to IMAGE>ROTATE use these settings...

Direction: Left

Degrees: 90

Click ok.

Go to IMAGE>DEFORMATIONS>WIND and use these settings...

Strength: 10

Check From Right

Click ok.

Go to IMAGE>DEFORMATIONS>WIND and use these settings...

Strength: 10

Check From Left

Click ok.

Click ok. Go to IMAGE>ROTATE use these settings...

Direction: Right

Degrees: 90

Click ok. Go to IMAGE>BLUR>BLUR MORE.

Go to COLORS>ADJUST>BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST and set both to 10 and click ok. Select white as your foreground color. Click the text tool and center the same text over your glow. Click "Ctrl D" on your keyboard to deselect the text. Mine looks like this...

Go to IMAGE>OTHER>DILATE up to five times depending on how big your text it. I did mine two times. Go to IMAGE>BLUR>BLUR MORE. Select your gem color again as your foreground color. Mine is red. Click the text tool and center the same text over the white. Mine looks like this...

Leave that selected and go to IMAGE>NOISE>ADD and use these settings...

%Noise: 100

Check Random

Click ok. 2 times. Go to IMAGE>OTHER>HOT WAX COATING. Go to COLORS>ADJUST>HUE/SATURATION/LIGHTNESS using these settings...

%Hue: 100

%Saturation: 100

%Lightness: 65

Click ok. Now I clicked the selection tool and drew a rectangle as close to the colors as I could get. Then I went to IMAGE>CROP TO SELECTION. Then I made sure white was my background color and went to IMAGE>ADD BORDERS I checked Symmetric and set them to 10. Then I went to IMAGE>EFFECTS>BUTTONIZE and used these settings...

Check Transparent Edge

Height: 15

Width: 15

Opacity: 80

Click ok. Then I saved it as a .jpg and this is what it looks like...

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