Here is my famous "JuggoPop's Photoshop Bling Bling Text Tutorial"...

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This tutorial will show you how to make "Bling Bling" text in Adobe Photoshop 6.0+

However, you have to know a little about the program... I am not going to walk you through how to change colors or how to find the gradient tool... if you don't know this stuff, you need to go learn that first and come back.

I'm going to add each step as a post in this thread... so scroll through and enjoy. If you have questions or want to show a project where you used this tutorial, feel free to post in this thread.

Copyright © 2003 JuggoPop (Brian Smith)
This tutorial was created by JuggoPop, Sunday, February 23, 2003
Most recent revision Sunday, February 23, 2003
Reposting or republishing of this tutorial requires expressed written permission.

First thing you need to do is open a blank image. I am using 500 x 500 (RGB) in this tutorial. You should always start Bling Text larger than you really think you will need it. It works better larger & can always be sized down.

After you get that open... fill the image with BLACK.

Next you need to pick the text tool and pick a nice THICK font... wide fonts do better.

I have picked my font... I am using BILLBOARD at a size of 150pt. I am doing the word BLING in this example. Feel free to use any word you like.

You will need to type your word in WHITE somewhere in the middle.

This will cause photoshop to make the text on a new layer. This new layer will be named the same as your word. After you type your word click the gradient tool.

Now, CTRL CLICK the layer with your text on it. This will select the area. Click the new layer icon in the layers tray

you now have a blank layer with the outline of your word selected. Do not deselect it... this is the layer where the magic will happen.

Now take the gradient tool (with black to white) click the top of the selected area, hold shift and drag your mous to the bottom of the area.

When done correctly it should look like the image to the right... only don't deselect yours. If you do, just control click the text layer then reselect this layer to get it back.

Now... with the layer still selected, go to Filters > Render > Lighting Effects.

Choose these settings or settings close to these.
(make sure you pick 2 O'clock spotlight and the correct texture channel)



When you are done it should look like this image:

Here is where the fun really gets going... this step makes it really look shiny.

Make sure you still have the section selected...
then go to Image > Adjust > Curves.

Choose these settings or settings close to these.



When you are done it should look something like this:

Next... go to Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation.
Choose these settings:
Colorize box CHECKED
Hue 41
Saturation 71
Lightness 0.

After that is done it should look like this image: ("cheezy gold" as I call it.)

Now comes the Diamonds (sort of)... the part that puts the "BLING" in the "bling".

Make sure you area is selected (ctrl + Click layer)
Go to Select > Modify > Contract.
Contract it by 6 if you can... you will learn how much and how little to do with practice, it depends a lot on the font and how much you actually can. In my example I did 6.

Click the new layer icon in the layers tray

Go to Edit > Fill (then fill it 100% white)

It should look like this image (except, again your should still be selected)

Next... Filter > Noise > Add Noise, set it to 40%, Gaussian CHECKED, Monochromatic CHECKED.

Press CTRL+F two times...
(this is just a quick way of doing the same effect more than once)

We are almost done... You need to double click the layer of the diamonds... this will open the layer styles menu.

Click Stroke... change the color to black and the size to 1... click Bevel and Emboss change the style to pillow emboss and the angle to -117 (or whatever you think looks good, smaller height of the diamonds look better than over embossed)

Guess what... we are done, and you just made some Bling Bling text...



if anyone asks where you learned be sure to send them to www.JuggoPop.com and this forum thread.

Anyway... you will want to add your own touches, find some sparkle tutorials or some brushes and give it that extra sparkle.

Have Fun... post a link to your work...
I'd like to see where all this tutorial gets used at.

Thanks.
- Brian

Btw... You can link to this thread using:

http://tts4.com/bling/

Wurd. Now I can pimp my hoes Myspace. j/k

Thats pretty cool. As Flavor Flav would say, "Yeaaah Boooooooooooi"

Very cool!