Happy Diwali Text Effect

Happy Diwali

Text Effect for beginners

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Open a document in Photoshop 670 x 450

( File – New, then as shown below)

Paint with color white ( #FFFFFF )

Click on T in the Toolbar and write

Happy Diwali, with your choice of font

Foreground color should be black

I used Merkin 60 pt

Open the JPEG picture of lamps

It will open in another document

Press CTRL + A then CTRL + C

Click on Happy Diwali document

Press CTRL + V. It will paste above the letters

Click on the arrow and check

Show Transform Control

(You can see it only when you click on arrow)

And move the side nod

until you are satisfied with the size

Layer Palette will be like this

Duplicate the layer 5 times

( Layer – Duplicate Layer )

With the arrow place them like this

Close Layer 1 and Happy Diwali layers

by clicking on the eye

Layer – Merge Visible

Stand on Layer 7

Right click – Create Clipping Mask

You will get this

Right click on Happy Diwali Layer

Blending Options

Click on Bevel and Emboss

Then change the Depth to 30

We are done

Now how to save transparent text

Close the white layer by clicking on the eye

Go to, Image – Trim

Click OK

You will get this

File – Save As

Save as PNG

Pop-up box will come

Click OK

Other examples

Font - Ethnocentric
http://www.dafont.com/
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Font - Creepsville
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Instead of multiple JPEG pictures like previous

Use single JPEG picture 

Font - Earth
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Font - Merkin
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