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War Text

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In this tutorial, you will learn to create a war like text effect.
Select Horizontal Type Mask Tool, type 'text' with arial black 100 pt font.



Create a new layer by pressing shift+ctrl+n together. Fill the selection with linear gradient (the first gradient) selecting # DC0000 as foreground and # 850002 as background color :-



Go to edit > stroke and add 1 pixel black stroke :-



Go to Select > modify > contract and contract the selection by 2 pixel :-



Create a new layer and fill the selection with white color :-



Select the eraser tool and select this brush :-



Erase most of the layer leaving the portion as shown :-



Group and merge these two layers. Again go to edit>stroke and this time change the stroke color to white and width to 2 pixel :-



Select this layer again by pressing control key from the keyboard and clicking on its layer name in layer pallate. Now, go to select > modify > expand and expand the selection by 3 pixels. Create a new layer and fill the selection with #9F2108 . Also send this layer backward :-



Keep the selection active and move it as shown :-



Press ctrl+alt from the keyboard and click on its layer name in layer pallate to have a selection like shown :-



Create another layer and fill the selection with # CA4B06 :-



Group and merge all the layers :-

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Press control+t to transform the layer as shown :-



Press control+j to duplicate the layer. Go to filter > distort > ripple as shown :-





Press control+f key for 6-7 times :-



Press shift+ctrl+u to desaturate the layer :-



Go to filter>blur>gaussian blur as shown :-





Change the blending mode to Vivid Light :-



Apply pattern overlay in it as shown :-



Now, press alt from the keyboard and click in between two layer names in layer pallate to have a clipping mask. Now merge these two layers.



Duplicate this layer again. Select smudge tool and this brush type :-



This is the setting of smude tool :-



Drag the brush over the layer to have this kind of effect :-



Apply gradient overlay as shown :-





Erase the part of the layer which is covering the first layer as shown with soft brush. Our war text is ready :)



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