Soft Bevel Text

[fusionx2]

Step 1
Open a new image (width 400 pixels, height 100 pixels in this case).
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Step 2
Pick a background color, in this case we are going to use a light grey (#B8B8B8).
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Step 3
Click on the text tool and change the text color to white (#FFFFFF).
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Step 4
Type something with the text tool in the font of your choice and around font size 72 (for this example I am typing fusionx2 using Bitsumishi at size 60).

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Step 5
Click the text layer in the layers palette.

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Step 6
Click layer--> layer style--> and blending options.

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Step 7
Click onto Drop Shadow, and make sure the options are set to these (roughly the same to get the effect, playing around with this setting can give you different effects).

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Step 8
Click onto Bevel and Emboss and make sure the options are set to these (roughly the same to get the effect, playing around with this setting can give you different effects).

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Step 9
Click onto Color Overlay and make sure the options are set to these (roughly the same to get the effect, playing around with this setting can give you different effects). The color in there is #F0F0F0.

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Step 10
Click onto Stroke and make sure the options are set to these (roughly the same to get the effect, playing around with this setting can give you different effects). The gray is #858585.

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Step 11
Click Ok and your image should look like this:

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Written by fusionx2 of fusionx2.com

Original Copy located here

[ShadowyOne]

Nice! It seems to be hard to find graphics with readable text nowadays, but this effect is good and neat.

*adds to index*

[fusionx2]

shank you, I love this kind of text

[Smashey]

why is everything photoshop! I want it! Well, anyways, nice tut.

[Aaron]

Nice tutorial; lots of people will find this very useful as it is a good addition to graphics.

[LPF]

Great Tutorial. =] Really great text effect on sigs.

[Ten Kabuto]

wow amazing effect

[KunaiFlame]

I don't see any of the images,your host must be down,and the link to the original tut has an error on it and it won't show up.