Multi-Stroke Colorful Text
Posted on March 1, 2008Filed Under Design Techniques |
1- Start out with a new document.
2- Set foreground color to #115aac and background color to white.
3- Type any text within your canvas, choosing whatever font you like, I am using in this tutorial the Brush Script Std font, try to set your font at a large size in order for our effects to look great..
4- Using our text layer, go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options or easily doubleclick the text layer in the layer palette to open the Layer Style & Blending Options window, select Stroke as follows and set the color to white and the size of the stroke to 3px, then click OK, actually you won’t see any change since our background is white, just wait till the next step.
5- Now we want to duplicate our text layer, which is DesignInterval in this tutorial, we can either right-click the text layer and choose Duplicate Layer or simply select the text layer in the layers palette then press the shortcut key CTRL + J, this will create another copy of our text layer, depending on the name of your layer, the new copy will be named as LayerName copy, here it will be DesignInterval copy.
6- Click and drag the DesignInterval copy layer below the AxeCity layer.
7- While selecting the DesignInterval copy layer, doubleclick to open the layer style window to apply our stroke as follows, set the stroke color to # e5a826 and the stroke size to 6px ( just enough to appear beneath our main layer AxeCity ).
8- Here is how our text looks like after applying the second stroke in our tutorial.
9- Now, we want to create another stroke to give the colorful effect and multi-stroke appearance to our text, so we need to create another copy of our layer DesignInterval and bringing it down below DesignInterval copy, then applying a larger stroke than the preceding one to let our stroke appear..
here We created DesignInterval copy2 by selecting DesignInterval layer then CTRL+J, then clicking and dragging it below DesignInterval copy, that’s how our layers palette should look like.
10 – Doubleclick DesignInterval copy2 to open the Layer Style window and apply our 3rd stroke, set the stroke color to #760606 and the stroke size to 9px as follows.
11- Here we got our cool colorful text, you can simply add another stroke by creating another copy of our main text layer DesignInterval, and bringing it the whole way down below DesignInterval copy2, applying stroke size greater than the last stroke, so if the last one was 9px, this will be like 12px or whatever size greater than 9px in order for our stroke to appear from beneath, I think you got the trick now.
You can save your file as psd file, so whenever you want to change the colors of your strokes at anytime you will just doubleclick the text layers and change any stroke you want.
Here is how our final result will look like.
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From a beginner this is awesome!
Hi Mean,
Thanks for your nice comment, glad that you liked it!