PS teaches you to draw cool blue sci-fi fonts

Today's font, film fans are very familiar with the wide existence of major sci-fi movie posters, the font is vigorous and sharp, angular, faint flashing blue, process of layer style understanding is very helpful, hurriedly practicing walk!

OK, let's cut the crap and go straight to the topic. First, let's introduce some tips for creating graphic styles and effects.

Don't be misled by names

When you open the Photoshop Layer style panel, you will find the name of the effect, such as shadow, inner glow, inner shadow, and so on. But don't be misled by these names, and unlike what you see in your eyes, these effects actually have more powerful features. You can use projections for a flat shape to create a starting light effect or a 3D stereo effect. This is only a small part of these effects. Keep looking down and you'll learn all the features of these effects.

All effects 100% can be customized

You are free to adjust any number of effects such as curves, tones, blending modes, colors, intensities, saturation, transparency, and none of these values are randomly displayed. The only thing you need is patience and attention to detail.

The default effect is like a nightmare

The default value provided by Photoshop is only for you to understand its effect. Never take these default values for granted. Designers just need to find the way to set each effect, and your work will definitely stand out. Each time you open the effect panel, try to find ways to improve your design.

Remember these three points and apply them to your design work, which I believe will be a great way to improve your Photoshop skills. Believe me, this approach is like a magic, I've done it.

Let's take a look at the effect we're going to make today:

It looks complicated, doesn't it? As I mentioned earlier, don't be misled by these effects, look at the steps below and you'll know everything. Let's get started.

First step:

Let's start with the simplest shapes, and it's pointless to add details at the outset. First, create the most basic shapes. If you create a beautiful shape without adding any effects, this is a very good start. Like a building, you need to have a good foundation so that you don't collapse easily.

Open Photoshop,ctrl+n to create a new canvas. Choose the size and resolution you need. The size is not too small, so we can see the details.

2nd Step:

In this design, we want to create an effect of StarCraft text. First download and install the StarCraft font. We fill the background color with light gray to replace the default white, so that the white background and text contrast too strongly.

3rd Step:

Adds bevel and emboss effects to text. The default numerical effect is definitely not what we want, we need more intense effects, and that will be more impact. Increase the "size" of the value, pay attention to see how the edges and corners of the font become clear. Size selection of 20px is more appropriate. (font size is different, you need to set the number will be different, the specific circumstances of their own grasp.) We need sharp edges and edges to set the "method" to carve clearly. Continue to adjust the angle and height of the shadow, which determines the contrast of edges and corners.

All numerically adjusted effects:

4th Step:

Next we'll use a rusty texture. Download texture footage, turn it on in Photoshop, we only need the rust-mottled texture, but not the color, so perform menu image > Adjust > Go color. We continue to adjust the contrast of the footage image. Ctrl+l turns on the color order and adjusts the light and dark parts to enhance the contrast.

We need to save the texture for the text effect. CTRL + A Select all, execute menu Edit > Define pattern, rename pattern.

5th step:

It's time to apply textures to our text effects. Double-click the layer style, open the texture overlay option, and select the rust texture that we defined in the previous step. The effect looks too strong, set the blending mode to dot light, and the opacity setting to 20%.

6th step:

Now the color is only black and white, this step we will add some color. Open the Layer style panel for color overlay. The color we choose here is #5288a4 and the opacity is set to 70%.

Look at the overall effect.

So we have a basic hue. The default bevel and Emboss shadows and the high light still don't reach the effect we want, so let's adjust the color of the high light and shadow. Set the color values to #13fffc and #005780 respectively.

7th step:

Now the overall look is still relatively flat, there is no very strong sense of three-dimensional. We need to create a layer of bevel and emboss to enhance this feeling. Select the text layer, ctrl+j copy a layer, delete the duplicate layer of layer style effect. and set its padding to 0.

Because our next step is to change the opacity of the color overlay to 100%, you drag the pattern overlay on the following layer to the copied layer, otherwise the color will obscure the effect of the pattern.

Effects of adjusting layer styles:

8th step:

Change the color overlay opacity of the following layer to 100%.

9th step:

Adds a beveled and embossed texture to the text layer above. This will give the texture a slightly raised effect.

Then adjust the bevel and emboss. This makes the text of the three-dimensional more prominent.

10th Step:

To increase the contrast between the upper and lower parts of the text, we add a gradient overlay to it and set the blending mode to multiply.

The text effect at this time.

11th Step:

Select the bottom-most type layer to add a drop shadow effect to it.

Here we use contour lines, so that the interior of the projection is darker, the external more virtual, consistent with the real projection of the style.

Add the text effect after the projection.

12th Step:

So far, we've just added a dark part to the text, and this step adds the high light section.

Ctrl+j Copy the text one layer, remove the layer style, and set the padding to 0.

Adds a gradient style to the text. The white part is the area that we need to brighten, and note that the blending mode is color dodge at this point.

Add the effect after the high light.

13th Step:

Below we create a stroke, which is a clearer outline of the text. Brighter outlines can distinguish between text and shadows, highlighting text. The color we choose is #32c3ff.

14th Step:

Do not satisfy with the previous step of the style, our text can also continue to optimize. To add some internal glow effects to the text, here we use the inner shadow to achieve this effect. Remember, the inner shadow is not the only shadow effect, we can also use this function to simulate the effect of the glow. Look at the next picture is not beautiful a lot.

15th Step:

Adjust the background a little bit and our effect is done. cheers!

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