Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
Glowing Pixel SKull Text
This time you're going to learn how to create a text with a glowing pixel skull background like this:
Step 1
Create a new RGB document.
Type your text.
The font you are going to need for the skulls is "04b_21", you can get it at dafont.com
Now type your text and apply these Blending Options:
Drop Shadow (black):
and a stroke (color:white)
Step 2
Duplicate the text layer and move it under your original text layer.
Click the copied layer's icon while holding down CTRL and apply Filter --> Blur --> Gaussian Blur with a radius of about 3.5
Step 3
Hit CTRL-D and go to Edit --> Transform --> Warp and warp the layer until it looks something like this:
Step 4
Now dye your background black and click Layer --> Flatten Image:
Step 5
Hit CTRL-U and pick a color.
I used these settings:
That's it.. there's your glowing pixel skull text effect: