Tech news and opinion updated regularly
DoesWhat

Retro Red Text in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will be creating a 3D styled ‘Retro Red Text’ graphic. This tutorial is aimed at beginners, this tutorial uses basic Photoshop features such as distort, duplicating layers, photoshop effects and blending options.


Step 1 Create a new canvas (File -> New), I have set mine to 615×500 to give me a little space, but in reality we will need less than half of this.


Step 2 Select the Text Tool and key in any text, we have used ‘RetroRedText’ for demonstration purposes. Select the font Trebuchet MS if it available in your list of fonts.


Step 3 Right click your text layer and ‘Convert to Shape’.


Step 4 Go to (Edit -> Transform Path -> Distort) distort.


Step 5 Drag the points as shown below.


Step 6 Right click the layer and select ‘Blending Options’. Select stroke and set the outside colour to black (#000000). Select colour overlay and set the colour to grey (#999999).


Step 7 Right click the layer and duplicate it. Move the new layer with your arrow keys up 2 and left 2. Repeat this process another three times.

Step 8 Your canvas should now look like the text below.


Step 9 Merge all you layers excluding the background.


Step 10 Visit (Image -> Adjustments -> Exposure) and move the Exposure slider to the far right and the Gamma slider to the far left.


Step 11 Now visit (Image -> Adjustments -> Replace Color) and click the first colour block and make this black (#000000). Then select the bottom colour block and make this red (#FF0000).


Step 12 Visit the Channel Mixer by going to (Image -> Adjustments -> Channel Mixer) and set the Red channel to 200%.

Step 13 Got to the Levels setting (Image -> Adjustments -> Levels) and drag the middle slider to the far right.


Step 14 Now visit (Filter -> Artistic -> Cutout…) and hit enter once the new window has opened. Thats it! Your final image is below in Retro Red Style.

Please leave any comments if you liked the tutorial, disliked the tutorial or need any help.


Submitted May 24th 2008, post story to

del.icio.us | Digg | reddit! | Facebook | Twitter | Stumbleupon

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 24th, 2008 at 8:39 pm British Time. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
«



Quick links

Leave a comment | Print | Email this story

You might also like

8 Responses to “Retro Red Text in Photoshop”

  1. slithering on May 24th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    awesome!
  2. far east on June 11th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    another nice trick of photoshop!
  3. near east on July 15th, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    :P nice and bad, you got 2 ratings from me :)

  4. WhiteLight~ on August 3rd, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    i cant see the exposure option in adjustments. Im using version 7.
  5. Tarun on August 7th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    Cool !! ;)

  6. kasia on October 28th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    Hey, awesome tutorial!
    And really pretty result – which might be really handy! :)

    What I was wondering… what is the Exposure/Gamma thing really doing?…
    Will it affect also other textures the same way?… Like thinning the dark black areas?…
  7. Answers4PC on January 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Nice tutorial, helped me lots.
  8. http://www.adobelearn.com/ on March 12th, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    Retro Red Text in Photoshop | PhotoShop Tutorial | Tutorial What…

    In this tutorial you will be creating a 3D styled ‘Retro Red Text’ graphic. This tutorial is aimed at beginners, this tutorial uses basic Photoshop features such as distort, duplicating layers, photoshop effects and blending options….

Leave a Reply