Spacial Background with Shinny Text
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In this tutorial I will bring to you a very interesting background, which you will be able to use in your PC as the wallpaper. It’s about a spacial shinny text and its reflection. We will apply ((Rectangular Marquee Tool)), ((Pen Tool)), ((Layer Mask)), ((Noise)), layer styles, ((Brush Tool)), ((Gradient Overlay)), ((Free Transform)), and filters like ((Motion Blur)), and ((Gaussean Blur)).
Open a new document, 800×600px, and black background.
Now apply ((Filter))-((Noise))-((Add Noise)).
Duplicate the layer (Ctrl + J).
Change the layer style of the duplicated layer to ((Color Dodge)).
Select the 2 layers and press Ctrl + E to unify them.
In the unified layer, create a ((Layer Mask)).
Create a ((New Layer)), fill it in with black and bring it to the background.
For those who don’t know what the ((Layer Mask)) is for, let me tell you. As you could see, when you created the mask, a white square appeared to the flank of the layer. The white color represents the visible areas of the layer, color black represents the opposite. If you paint with black, standing in the ((Layer Mask)), you will erase. If you paint with light grey you will partially erase, and so will happen if you paint with any color from white to black. You can also use black color and erase lowering the opacity, and this is what we will do.
Choose black as the foreground color.
Select ((Brush Tool)), size 300px, ((Hardness)): 0%, and ((Opacity)): 30px.
Stand in the ((Layer Mask)) and paint the document diagonally to eliminate the stars that appear in the corners.
See the result in the following image and see how the ((Layer Mask)) looks.
Create a ((New Layer)).
Select ((Rectangular Marquee Tool)) and create a selection as the one that appears below.
Fill it in with white.
Modify the ((Fill)) to this layer to 0%.
Double click the layer to apply ((Layer Styles)).
((Gradient Overlay)). Use these colors: #081828 to transparent.
Accept the changes.
Choose white as the foreground color.
Write the word “SHINE” or the one you want, using the font Futura LT BT. You can download it by clicking HERE.
For the text, use the values that appear pointed in the image below.
Duplicate the text layer (Ctrl + J).
Stand in the duplicated text layer and go to ((Edit))-((Transform))-((Flip Vertical)). Place it as shown below, since you want to make it look as the reflection of the original text.
Then to the duplicated layer, apply a ((Layer Mask)) and with a soft black brush and ((Opacity)): 30%, paint the ((Layer Mask)) until you see something like what appears in the following image.
Before going on, download this BRUSH of stars and install it.
Create a ((New Layer)).
Choose one of the brushes you downloaded and paint some shinny stars over the letters. See the result in the following image.
Create a ((New Layer)).
Select ((Pen Tool)) and draw some traces as the one that appears below.
Press Ctrl + Enter to transform the trace into selection.
Fill in the selections with white.
If these “spines” are in different layers, press Ctrl + E to unify them in an independent layer.
It is very important that they are in the same layer.
Stand in the “spines” layer and go to ((Filter))-((Blur))-((Motion Blur)).
Then ((Filter))-((Blur))-((Gaussean Blur)).
This will be our final result.
