Liquid Metal Tutorial

Step 1: Type your text using a large bold type.

Step 2: Put a selection around your type layer by holding down the apple key and clicking once on the type layer.

Step 3: Go under the select menu and choose save selection. When the dialog box appears, click OK to save your selection.

Step 4: Deselect ((Apple + D)

Step 5: Drag your type layer into the trash can to delete it.

Step 6: Go to the channels palette and click on Alpha
1. Duplicate this layer.

Step 7: Go under the Filter menu, under Blur, and choose Gaussian blur. For Radius enter 3 and click OK.

Step 8: Put a selection around Alpha 1 copy.

Step 9: Go under the filter menu, under Blur and chose Gaussian Blur. For the radius, enter 6 and click OK.

Step 10: Go to the layers palette and click once on the background layer. Don't deselect yet!

Step 11: Go under the Filter menu, under render and choose Lighting effects. In the pop up menu, choose directional. Under Properties, set the Gloss to 100, set the Material to 100, then skip down the texture Channel and choose Alpha 1 copy from the pop up menu Click OK.

Step 12: Dont Deselect yet!
Go under the filter menu, under stylize, and choose Find Edges.

Step 13: Deselect

Step 14: Go under the select menu and choose load selection. When the dialog box appears, choose Alpha 1 from the pop up menu. Click Ok

Step 15: Press Shift+ Apple+ I to inverse your selection.

Step 16: Press delete to delete the background area.

Step 17:Inverse your selection again to reselect your type.

Step 18: Press Shift + Apple + J.

Step 19: Go under the filter menu under sharpen, and choose Unsharp Mask. For amount choose 200% for radius choose 1, for threshold choose 15. Click OK.

Step 20: Add a drop shadow. Leave the setting at the default.

Step 21: Go under the image menu, under adjustments and choose hue/saturation. Click the colorize button, then drag the hue slider over to 214 and lower the saturation to 20 to complete the effect.