Blue Plastic Wrap Text Effect


In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial you will see how to make a cool blue plastic wrap text effect.
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1.
Start by writing the text you want to add this effect to.

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2.
hold down ctrl and click the text layer from before to load the selection, now delete the text layer and make a new empty layer.

3.
Now we will go through a procedure thats kind of tricky you may have to adjust the values a bit depending on the text size and font you are using.

Go to select -> modify -> smooth and smooth it 2 px

Fill the selection with black.

Go to select -> modify -> contract and contract it 2 px

Go to select -> modify -> smooth and smooth it 2 px

fill the selection with white color.

Go to select -> modify -> contract and contract it 2 px

Go to select -> modify -> smooth and smooth it 2 px

fill the selection with black.

Go to select -> modify -> contract and contract it 2 px

Go to select -> modify -> smooth and smooth it 2 px

fill the selection with white.

Go to select -> modify -> contract and contract it 2 px

Go to select -> modify -> smooth and smooth it 2 px

fill the selection with black.

4.
Now your text should look something like this.

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5.
Now go to filter -> filter gallery and locate the filter called plastic wrap and set it as below.

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6.
Go to image -> adjustments -> hue and saturations and drag the handles so change colors as shown below.

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7.
Now double click the shape layer in the layers panel to get to the layers style panel, and give it settings as shown below.

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8.
Go to filter -> filter gallery and locate the plastic wrap and set it as in the image below.

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9.
Now finally we will change the colors a bit, so go to image -> adjustments -> color balance and drag the handles until you get the colors you want.

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