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Diamond Text Effect

Diamond Text

Learn how to create the Ice that rappers wear wround their neck. This is a little different then your average Bling Bling-tutorial. I focus more on the diamonds 😉

When you see rappers with the ice around their necks… you just wanna make that too!

  • Step 1 Create a new file with a nice background and some black text;

    Ice ice, baby!

  • Step 2 Select it holding CTRL and left-clicking the thumbnail in the palette;

    Ice ice, baby!

  • Step 3 Go to Select>Modify>Contract and select a nice amount depending on your text-size;

    Ice ice, baby!

  • Step 4 Make it look a bit like this and fill it with white on a new layer;

    Ice ice, baby!

  • Step 5 Go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise and set it to the max;

    Ice ice, baby!

  • Step 6 Go to Filter>Stylise>Emboss and add these settings;

    Ice ice, baby!

    Ice ice, baby!

  • Step 7 Now add these layer-styles to the black text;

    Ice ice, baby!

    Ice ice, baby!

    Ice ice, baby!

    Ice ice, baby!

    Ice ice, baby!

    Ice ice, baby!

    Ice ice, baby!

    Ice ice, baby!

    Ice ice, baby!

  • Step 8 Now set the blending-mode of the greyish layer to screen!

    Ice ice, baby!

Author        :  MICK MOOLHUIJSEN 
HomePage : 
http://www.mickm.com 

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