Smooth Glass Type

Here’s a tutorial on creating smooth glass type type I found at luxa.org. I liked the variety the layers styles created when I choose not to use the blue background. As well, on the top and bottom images, I chose to leave the inner glow off because I liked the look. I chose the two shades of blue arbitrarily, some close. I just noted the colors in case you want to use them. the fill style for the type layer is 0%. I didn’t want to just copy the layers style from the downloaded PSD because I like seeing what happens with each change to the style but it was tedious trying to go back and forth between files so I made screen shots of the styles, used Photoshop’s automation capability to create a contact sheet of the images and then worked from that. If you want a tutorial on creating a contact sheet, leave a comment and I’ll create one. It’s really quite easy but if you’re new to Photoshop it may not seem easy, like it didn’t when I first started. I did download the PSD and used the wet metal background texture since I couldn’t find it at mayang. I did find some nice textures there, though, so do check it out.