Oil and Water Text
Mix oil and water, or any liquid combination, using layer properties in Photoshop.
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Start a new image and add text. Set the font color to something to represent your transition color (where the oil meets the water).
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Double click the text layer and add a Bevel and Emboss layer style. Set it to Inner Bevel with Smooth technique. Set the depth to something over 100%, direction Up set the size to something about 50 with a low soften value. Adjust the shading so that the angle is upwards, 90 degrees, and the altitude is low, ~1 degree. The trick here is to use the highlight and shadow colors to represent the oil and water. Set the highlight and shadow modes to Normal with 100% opacity. Set the highlight color to a brown yellow for oil, and the shadow color to a light blue for water.
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| STEP 3 |
Don't close the layer styles menu yet. Click the Gloss Contour shape to open the contour editor. Add a control point and adjust its values so that it's located in the upper left. This will adjust the transition range between the colors, the highlight and shadow.
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And there you have it, a basic font with a oil on water apperance. Try adjusting the angle values to make the oil and water mixture do interesting things.
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