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Funky Text Effect

This tutorial will show you how to create a text style like this one, using Adobe Photoshop.

Let’s start by creating a new document (size doesn’t really matter). Select the Text tool and choose a font and a color (I chose orange) for your text. Now type your text but between each letter enter a space. For example for this tutorial I typed C “space” O “space” O “space” L “space” “space” T “space” E “space” X “space” T

Hit Ctrl-J twice two duplicate your text layer two times. Now you shouls have three copies of the text layer.
Select the middle one and apply a stroke. In this case I used a 3pixels stroke but that depends on the size of the text and your own preference.

Select the bottom text layer, apply a stroke of a different color and make sure that the size of the stroke is bigger than that of the middle layer

You should now have something like that

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13 Responses to “Funky Text Effect”

1. San Says:
   November 11th, 2005 at 12:31 am

   nice tutorial, simple and impressive.

2. dipesh Says:
   November 15th, 2005 at 7:02 am

   nice tutorial.

3. marie Says:
   November 15th, 2005 at 7:38 am

   cool

4. Ilijas Says:
   November 17th, 2005 at 9:58 pm

   After your step where I merged Visible Layers, I have locked layer.

   and go to Layers -> Merge Visible Layers

   So, I am not able to maek next step

   Then apply a gradient overlay style on the merged layers

   There is locker sign on the layer and when I bring the mouse to, tip says “Indicated layer is partialy locked”

5. Dimitris Says:
   November 18th, 2005 at 11:30 am

   Hi, Ilijas. You should still be able to apply a gradient overlay on the merged layers even if they are partially locked.

6. Nina Says:
   November 23rd, 2005 at 8:01 pm

   Very good!

7. Admin Says:
   November 26th, 2005 at 4:06 am

   this is also a nice one.

8. SOMEBODY Says:
   December 8th, 2005 at 7:04 pm

   awesome man

9. LeoPipa Says:
   January 28th, 2006 at 5:05 am

   Really nice, what font have you used in your example?

10. rob Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 4:04 pm

    nice, but yea what font is this?

11. DULAL KHAN Says:
    May 12th, 2006 at 10:09 pm

    REALLY FUNKY.

12. Mr Hanky Says:
    June 21st, 2006 at 3:49 am

    what font is it? answer or ill g-hat u

13. Dimitris Says:
    July 13th, 2006 at 3:54 pm

    It’s the Aardvark Cafe font.

    Sorry that it took me so long to answer

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