image manipulation 2

To start the designer creates a new adjustment layer then adds a linear gradient fading from dark Grey to black to produce the effect of lighting in the background of image. next the designer then creates a new layer and adds a colour linear gradient, then changes the layer fill to 25% giving the gradient a translucent look adding colour to the previous gradient and also allow the previous gradient to be seen through the newly added one. Again the designer has made a new layer and added a gradient but this time instead of a linear gradient a radial gradient is used. the designer has then set the layers opacity to 65% this adds colour to the added gradient and makes the previous gradient look central as if there is coloured light radiating from the center of the image. the designer has now started to add the text to the image, then by setting the blending mode to screen makes the letter disappear. The designer then moves on to changing the layer style and adding an outer glow to the letter. the blending mode is changed to colour dodge, opacity set to 20%, range set to 50%. Moving on to sthe stroke, the dsigners has set the pixle size to 2%, position outside, opacity 50% and the fill colour to white. all this together creates a letter that is transparrent with a glowing outline. the designer has then duplicated the layer and change the font of the letter creating a streaky and rondom effect. the designer has then copied this method two more time but rplaced the letter with a different one. the design then moves on to adding a base for the text to sit on using the eliptical marquee tool, to follow then adds a motion blur to the elipse making it look blured at either end making it look as if it has a glow. the designer has then gone on to create a plain for the xtext and base to sit on so it dose not look as if it isfloating in mid space, the designer has done this by filling the layer then flattening the image then adding a stroke and glowing outline to the defined pattern. This is then set on a new layer and to give it the look of a plain is set in a perspective veiw this adds depth to the compsition of the image. To finnish the designer adds a reflection to the image this is done by duplicating the type layers then they are placed under neathe the existing type. To continue the designer then flips them horizontally to make the duplicated type more of a reflection. The opacity is set to 25% making the type more transparrent and reflective. To compleate the reflecion the designer hasadded a mask and over the top added a black to white linear gradient making the text darker and faded at the top like a reflection in a puddle of water.


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