Frost Part 4
Freeze your text and make it look like an ice cube with a frosted top and icicles.

This is a multiple page tutorial because there are 4 layers, each adding to the effect. Start on the first step.

In these steps you'll learn how to apply the same layer effects along with a special brush to create an icicle effect.

Start out by adding a new empty layer.

Now select a brush of appropriate size for the base of the icicle. In my case, I used the hard round brush of size 9.

Now go to the brushes window (F5) and set the brush control to fade. The amount, which I set to 30, will depend on your text size, so try 30 and if its too short or too long, come back and change it.

On the black layer, start drawing icicle shaped lines using the brush tool (B). Since we are using a fade, the bush will quickly shrink to nothing making drawing icicles fairly easy.

To make the icicles simply select the bottom most text layer and copy the layer styles (right click Copy Layer Styles) then apply them to the icicles layer (right click on new icicle layer and Paste Layer Styles).

And there you have it, a frosted, frozen, ice cubed text effect. An added bonus is that each layer is still a text layer, so if you wanted to change the text its relatively easy.