Photoshoplady Photoshop Tutorials: Using Light & Shade to Bring Text to Life Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect

In this tutorial we are going to take some very basic principles of light and shade to make a rather impressive looking text effect. Finally we duplicate the top lighting layer one more time and set it to 65% opacity, then click the Add Layer Mask button on the layers palette again and draw a linear white to black gradient from top left to bottom right. This makes the extra lighting layer fade off as it goes down right.

Using Light & Shade to Bring Text to Life Photoshop Tutorial, Text Effect