Juslight, here a little aqua text tutorial, now this is all stuff I learned a while back, I worked around the original numbers to what I feel looks better, but I tried to use the ones I was taught.
1. First step is pretty much like every first step when it comes to photoshop, open an rgb document. Set your foreground to blue or what ever color you choose. Select the type tool and write some text, I use Apple Garamond the official iText (available here
http://flaimo.com/famousfonts/fontdetail.asp?ID=6 ). After you\'ve written whatever you wanted hold Ctrl and click the text layer, this will make the text a selection.
2. Create a new layer, then go to the Selection>>Modify>>Contract and enter 2-3px (this will shrink your selection). Then switch you foreground color to a lighter shade of blue (or whatever color you chose), fill your selection with the new color. Press Ctrl+d to deselect.
3. Drag the layer2 icon into the new layer icon, then go into Filter>>Blur>>Gaussian blur, your just going ti apply a slight blur, I entered 5px while the picture was at 640x480, the bigger the pic is the more blur you\'ll add, and the smaller the less blur.
4. Go into layer styles/layer effects and click on bevel and emboss, select depth 300, then play around with the size, put a number between 10 and 13, just put what you feel applies. Change the highlight mode to normal and exposure somewhere between 85 to 100%, I used 87%. But when I learned this It was supposed to be 100%. Then change the shadow mode to color dodge and exposure to around 40%, I used 34%. Then click the black color selection thingie next to the shadow selection, select white instead of black.
5. Make the background invisible, then click on any of the other layers, click the little arrow in the top right corner of the layers palette, select merge visible in the drop down menu. Then go into the layer styles/effects menu and select drop shadow. Take the opacity down to around 30-40, then just play around with it like you feel like.
6. To finalize this, go into image>>adjust>>color balance drag the cyan down to -75 and the bottom slider towards blue till +75. (this is all assuming your using the blue colors)
here\'s how the finished product should look like.
You can continue to play around with the final layers opacity etc..
Videoholic, nope I haven\'t gotten my greedy little hands on Photoshop.7 yet, but soon.
