Creating a Text Effect using Water with Photoshop

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In this tutorial I will show you how to easily make a text effect using water in photoshop. This text effect if used with big font will look like water, otherwise, it looks more like the sky. You will require basic knowledge of photoshop and be used to its functions.

There are two final images, I think it can be used as both:





There is an image used to make the text, you can get the full image here, I have resized the one in step 1 to fit the site.

Step 1:

Open the image:



Step 2:

Type your text, I have typed 'Water Text Effect' using the Poplar Std Font, I am using 135px, the color is simple white [color code: #ffffff] and the layer setting is set to 'Soft Light' to capture the water in the background properly so it looks like water.



Step 3:

Open the layer style settings for the text layer. Adjust the settings as shown in the image:



Colors: Grey [#656565] White [#ffffff]

There should be a slight change in the text, it should look like this:



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