Barbara Jenson - Unique how to text effects and blurs

old school tutorial

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you will need the stunning artwork of Barbara Jenson
her own site is HERE 
this tube is from CDO here under Exclusive tubes (tube1)

and a plugin called VM Experimental - Every picture tells a story

if you dont have it just google it and install it
a fat font of choice, I used American Captain  get it free here
A gradient of choice,  find some HERE HERE or HERE
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open up a new canvas 700x700 pixels, you can always crop later.

Write the word UNIQUE in capitals with the font american captain
 settings - size 200 set to bold.
background colour set to white / forground null


go to selections all - selections float then then add gradient of choice as a new layer
 I used one called fairydust but cant for the life of me remember where i got it sorry.
copy and paste tube twice as a new layer (each time) then go to selections invert and hit delete key for both tube layers to remove the excess
go to selections none

then  go to Layers - merge down
this will merge both tube layers onto 1 layer



go to Layers -Properties
and change the opacity blend mode from normal to screen
in the drop down box that appears.


you should have something like this

 

 duplicate this layer
arrange so one word is above the other

duplicate again, 
 
and on the very bottom one go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussion Blur
change the radius value to 10
see screenshot below.

click ok

 duplicate this layer and arrange so one blur sits atop the other


 make one of your merged text layers your active layers
and apply the plugin
do this by going to Effects - Plugin - VM experimental  - every picture tells a story
using these settings

 

click ok

repeat with both 'unique' text layers

add tube using the colours of choice to match your gradient,
there are many to choose from with this tube.


duplicate the tube and use the same plugin on the bottom tube

and your copyright and your name
font used for my name was Dr Carbfred
background white/ foreground null size set to 72

I also then converted it to a raster layer and added some glitter/noise
by going to Adjust- add/remove noise - Add noise
choose Random /Monochrome and change the number to 30.
save your tag as a png.