Spoiler (Click to View)Letter press is an effect that can
be used to create professional looking text, it
creates the illusion that the text has been stamped
into the background of your work. Letter press is
common in website design as well as in GFX.

Letter press is very easy to do once you know how and by the end of this short tutorial you should be able to do it with ease!

This is an example of letter press text.

Now that you know what letter press is, we will make the text.

Step 1:Spoiler (Click to View) To start with you are going to create a new
file, name it anything you want and set the size to: 1000 x 400
Pixels (You can change this if you like).




Step 2:Spoiler (Click to View) As it normally is with Graphic work
we are going to start with the background, you
can choose any background but for this guide I
will be using a solid green colour. (Code: 219801)




Step 3:Spoiler (Click to View) Now, we are going to insert our
text, you can choose any font but I am going
to be using Myriad Pro in bold with the colour: 404040.
Position your text in the center of your background



and set the distance between the letters to -45.




Step 4: Spoiler (Click to View)In this step we will be adding the
effects to our text to give us the nice letter
press look. Firstly select your text layer and hit the
Fx button or double click.



Now select Inner Shadow and change the highlighted options.



Next, click on drop shadow and change the highlighted options.



Finally choose Gradient Overlay and change the highlighted options.





Step 5:Spoiler (Click to View) You should now have something that
looks like this.



As an optional extra you can enhance your background by using a brush tool to darken the corners, use a soft brush and select 500px size and 0% hardness and then slowly and carefully dab a grey/ black colour round the edges to get this effect.





There we go!
And there you have it, you should now be able to create
sexy looking letter press text, I did say it was easy, right?

Thanks for reading this guide, and if you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to post below!

(Aug 31, 2012 10:17 AM)Saga Wrote:  Very cool F L U B B Y, I wish I had photoshop to do this but I do not, but cool to see you doing things like this F L U B B Y.

(Aug 31, 2012 10:19 AM)F L U B B Y Wrote:  Thankyou very much :) Also there are many places to get Ps online :P

(Aug 31, 2012 10:29 AM)+Awesome Wrote:  Well done FLUBBB. 😁 Would like to see more HQ tuts omg. :D

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(Aug 31, 2012 11:46 AM)Coden Wrote:  Here's what I got when following your tutorial step for step; very hq detailed tutorial btw.

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(Sep 29, 2012 11:25 AM)Phazer Wrote:  Looks great! Thanks!
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