Liquid Lettering Tutorial | Adobe Photoshop

[Music] wrapped in around hey guys in this video I'm gonna be showing you how to create this liquid text effect in Adobe Photoshop and just quickly before we get into the tutorial I just want to mention that this isn't necessarily the only way to create this effect this is just how I learned so with all that being said let's just get into the tutorial okay so first things first you gonna need a document to work in so I'm gonna set one up here I go into file new and I'm just can have it as 4,000 by 4,000 and then the resolution is gonna be 300 dpi with the color mode set to RGB color I'm gonna hit OK to create the document and now we have a document setup we're going to need some tag to work with so I'm shall hit T to get the tip type tool I'm going to write liquid since we're going to be creating a liquid effect and the font that we're using is actually my own form that I created called mono line script and they'll be a link to that in the description in case any of you are interested in using it so I'm trying to Center this quickly I'm just about there and now we're going to do is change the color of the type so with the type whether the text tool we're just gonna highlight the whole type course a little color box at the top here I'm just gonna hit 5 3 5 3 5 3 which gives you sort of a dark to medium sort of gray so what I'm also going to do is after every step I'm going to duplicate the layer just so that we can always go back to previous steps but of course you don't have to do this we follow in this tutorial it's just so that if I need to go back to show you something I can always do that so I'm going to hit command J or ctrl J if you're on PC to duplicate and I shouldn't turn off the original one and then I'm going to right click on the layer and then come down to rasterize layer' so now that's rasterized we can come up to where it says layers channels and paths here you can come over to channels and then you're just gonna select the blue one at the bottom and then right click and duplicate channel just hit OK when it comes up and then you're just gonna turn the duplicate on and then turn off the original blue so now you're left with just this and what we're now going to do is come up to filter blur Gaussian blur and you're just gonna put that 25% our 25 pixels I mean and just hit OK on that and now we're going to turn this off sorry now we're gonna turn all these back on first and turn that off and then we can come back to our layers tab and now we can start to give it that liquidy sort of look so from here I'm just going to duplicate of course you don't have to do this part you have to keep your bouquet in gyeom so I'm trying to duplicate that so you've always got the original and from here we're going to come up to filter render and then lighting effects and once this opens you'll see that it now looks like this but yours will look like this straight away wait for it to load so yours should look like this and the reason mine had a texture on it then is because I've actually done this before so as you can see it's set to spotlight in the lighting effects profit is over on the right and then where it says texture down here this this will be set to naught and by default so are you gonna do is click on that and then you'll see that the blue copy that we made before will be there so once you click that it's basically using that blur that blurred version as a texture over the top of this so it just kind of gives it a rougher look and it have now allows you to give you that sort of 3d effect whereas when it was a flat color it didn't it was just completely flat so these are the settings that I've got here so intensity is at 40 hotspot 76 exposure minus 20 plus 100 metallic 100 ambience 86 and height is 19 now of course these values won't be the same for everybody if you're using a different font for example then the values you probably be a little bit different and of course if using a different size document too so I'm just going to slightly adjust these I don't know just them too much and you don't want the whole tak to be too bright either so I'm going to bring down the hotspot a little bit and I'm also going to bring down the intensity of the color and I think I'm going to take the height of this up just a little bit so the texture just comes through a little bit more so 22 and then the ambient something I'm gonna bring this up in $93 okay so I'm pretty happy with how that looks at this point so I'm going to hit OK at the top here so now you can see we have to tight with the lighting effects applied so what I'm gonna do from here is now come up to filter and then filter gallery and by default all of these will probably probably be closed so you want to open the sketch folder and then there'll be a filter called Chrome so if you select Chrome now I've just got my detail and smoothness both set to the top and now of course as I said before depending on the size of you type in the size of your document then these settings may vary but I'm trying to keep these both for the tox I'm quite happy with how this looks so I'm gonna hit OK again on that and now we have the chrome applied and I actually forgot to duplicate it before we did that so I'm just going to quickly undo that duplicate it turn it off and then come back up to filter filter gallery and reapply that right so that's reapplied on a new layer and now we can duplicate this one so we've always got the backup and the next thing we need to do is lighten it up and dark and some of the areas as well so to do this we're going to come up to image adjustment levels and the very right slider we're just going to bring this all the way up nearly to the middle and then the middle slider we're going to drag this down a little bit so we can retain some of those shadows we don't want to get rid of them all completely so you want it to kind of look like this so it kind of looks like a chrome a piece of chrome so I'm quite happy with how that looks I'm just going to hit OK and again you know duplicate and then turn that one off and then the next step to just give it that little tiny extra bit of a liquid kind of feel we're gonna had a bevel and emboss to it so you're gonna come down to if your layer selected come down to the little effects button at the bottom hit that and then come to bevel and emboss and once this opens you know make sure you've got your style is inner bevel let's have your technique is smooth and then again the settings may vary depending on the document size and the type size that you use and the font so these are the settings that I've got here because I've used this with foreign these works very well so if I just turn this off yours you might be able to see this let me just zoom in outside right so now if I turn that off you can see the difference it makes it just gives it that extra little glow in certain areas here so it just makes it a lot more like an actual liquid so I'm happy with how that looks so I just go for the rest of these setting you can adjust the angle if you want but I'm pretty happy with how this looks as it is the altitude you can adjust that to and then the gloss contour I've got mine set to ring which is the second one across and then second down so it's this one here and then what I've got with these shadows I've actually put the all the way down to zero because you don't necessarily need that when you can have it in fact I will bring this off a tiny bit to be honest so let's see we don't want it to be too strong so I'm just literally gonna have it at about 10% and then the highlights you want that to be fairly high so you can actually see the highlights that you've added so I'm happy with how this looks and I'm just gonna hit okay and again you're gonna duplicate that so the last thing that were actually going to do to the type to give it that more a liquid look is we're gonna come up to filter and then liquify and the tool that you want to be using your here is called the bloat tool which is the one two three four five sixth tool down just like a little oval shape with arrows on every side or you can just press B and then the settings that I'm using with this the brush tool options the size is 150 density is 50 and the rate is 80 and again if you using bigger type or some other type are different document size and these sizes will also vary so ideally what you're looking to do with the liquify tool is make the ends of the letters where the actual like where they end like this where I'm hovering over so you want to make these look bigger because it's obviously like gonna be like a water droplet and then obviously because of gravity water would congregate more at the bottom of the layer so you want to really bulge these bottom areas out and kind of give it a little bit of a drip at the bottom as well so it actually looks like a liquids like you know dripping down something and then also where the letter intercepts itself and joins another way these parts would be quite bulged out as well because that's also where what I would congregate so I'm sure to quickly go around the letter L and show you how I'm doing this and then I'll just speed up the rest of the video where I'm going through the rest of it because once you've seen me do one layer it's pretty straightforward so I'm going to click and hold here all that up quite a bit I'm gonna click and drag round and then this middle bit here where it intercepts itself I'm gonna click and hold for a little bit longer and then just move to each of the corners and click and hold it will just bulge those areas out a little bit more and then we're gonna carry on following it round like so and of course you don't have to do one like round it you could just keep going around and adjust in different parts for me that a little bit bigger just bolt it up a little bit then there's an over intersection here so I'm gonna make this bit bigger I just click it in all the corners in the middle so pretty happy with that and I'm going to come around and now we're at the bottom of the lettuce and now we want to have a bit of a bulge at the bottom here where the weather water would be dripping from so I'm just going to keep clicking to get a nice shape so I'm quite happy with how that looks like that that's I'm happy with that and now I'm going to do this other part of the L and again this is at the bottom of the letter so there'd be another bulge down here where it's ready to drip I just get all this right and then there's another connection where it connects to the eye but I think at this point you should have a fairly good idea of what you're doing so I'll let you just continue from here while I speed this part up okay so once happy with how the liquify looks once you've done all this you can just simply hit OK and that will now apply it to this and obviously because we duplicated the layer first we can see the difference between the new one in the old one if I just turn on the bottom layer so that's how it looked before and this is now how it looks so you can see this does actually look a lot more like a liquid and this one kind of just looks like a chrome sort of pipe maybe just because it's so sharp on the edges and it doesn't look realistic as a liquid because obviously liquids not straight so this just this gives it just helps give it that more of a liquidy kind of feel so you can turn this one back off and bring this one back down to the center and we're gonna duplicate oops wrong key I'm going to duplicate that and turn off the background layer and what we're now going to do is we need to take out the highlights and some of the shadows as well so we can actually actually looks like a liquid rather than a full solid shape so to do that I'm just going to change the background first so I'm just gonna click on the background layer and make sure you have your background color set as black or a dark gray so I've got mine as 1 5 1 5 1 5 which is a dark gray that I always use so I'm just hit OK on that and then holding command or control if you're on PC just hitting backspace and you'll see that it now applies that color to your background layer so we're gonna come back up to the tight layer up here and I'm gonna do is double click on the thumbnail of the layer which will open up the layer style panel and down here where it says blend if you're gonna get the right-hand-side slider and you start dragging this over to the left and you see that now gets rid of the white and you can see how this little arrow that I'm dragging has a bit of a split in the middle of it and what you can do is if you hold alt and click on one of the sides you can actually adjust that that's that side of the slider so you can see how it's everything's very rough and sharp there if I split this oops let me just click and you'll see it actually smoothens everything out for you just so it just looks a bit tidier and a bit nicer and I'm also gonna drag physically slide from the opposite side as well to get some of the darker colors out so just keep dragging it and dragging it until you start to see some difference so there you can start to see some of the other colors going and again she's gonna split this one holding alt so I want I don't want these like these gray parts here you don't want it to be completely filled in so doing this you can see that it starts to make it a little bit more translucent as I pull it across and that's what you want to go for so I think I'm quite happy with how that looks there maybe you I get it's had more Adam shouldn't hit OK on that so as you can see it's now starting to look more like an actual liquid so we'll just compare it to the version beforehand so I'm just drag this down this is what we were working with and this is what we've now been left with so you can see that this looks far better than this in terms of a liquid kind of effect so we can just undo that I'm pretty certain it off and now we can start looking at different blend modes to really make this look like it's set on a surface so I'm gonna change the background color from black to an actual color so we can actually see what we're doing so I'm just gonna put it as like a very like light sky-blue sort of color and if you want to set your foreground color here as the background instead of holding command and then backspace I think it's alt and then backspace and that will apply your foreground color to the layer so we've done that and again I'm just going to duplicate this so we've got a backup so quality blend mode and we're gonna go with screen and that just makes it white and makes it feel like it's more part of the composition whereas when it's on normally it you can see it just sticks out because the colors aren't right so if you go to screen and then we're gonna duplicate this layer so holding command and then J or ctrl J on PC that just duplicates it for you and you could leave it like that if you wanted the liquid sort of effect to stand out a bit more so if I turned off one of the layers you see it kind of fades out a little bit if you duplicate it it just stands out a little extra bit more so I'm quite happy with how this looks we have two of them so I think what I'm gonna do is because we've got two of them and the bevel and emboss is still accessible in fact what I'll do is I'll just double click and open the bevel and emboss and I'm going to turn the opacity down of this I don't want it to be all the way off we just don't want the full effect of it so just hit OK on that so I'm happy with how it looks and our last thing is to add a bit of color behind the actual type itself because it just looks like it's kind of floating so it kind of needs a bit of a shadowing sort of look so what I'm going to do is turn on one of the originals so where's the one that we liquefied that one so we're going to drag this to the top so we can see what we're doing on this layer and I'm just gonna hold command or control V on PC and click on the thumbnail of this one that we've just moved to the top so now it's all selected and as we did before with the background layer set to black our dark gray should hit command backspace and it will fill in now this selected area some reason command D I'll control the UM PC to deselect I'm gonna uncheck the bevel and emboss because we don't need that on this layer and then what I'm gonna do is we're going to come up to filter blur Gaussian blur I'm just gonna set this to 25% and as I said before depending on the size if you document and whatnot then these values will vary so gonna hit OK on that and I'm gonna drag it below both of the layers and I'm gonna change the blend mode to multiply and I'm also gonna drop the opacity right down as well because you don't want it to stand out too much you just wanted to have it that little bit of a shadow behind it so I've had turned this layer off so drop the opacity down to 26% as well and I'm going to turn this off and you can see the difference it makes it just looks more realistic it actually looks like it's sat on that background so I'm just going to turn it down just a little bit more we don't need it to be too strong so I'm happy with how all of this is now looking last thing I'm going to do is I'm going to select both of the type layers that we have at the top and I'm going to duplicate them using command J or ctrl J on PC and I'm just gonna merge these layers together and then going to turn off the original two that we just had and now we're left with this and then we're just gonna come up to the blend mode and then we're gonna come down to where it says divide and hit that and then we're just gonna turn on the the one layer below it because we did actually duplicate so we have two here that are both the exact same layer but they're both got a screen blend mode so it just makes a little bit brighter but because we have this new one now which just gives it a little bit more color we're only gonna use one of these screens because if we use both of them you see it gets a little bit too bright so we're just gonna go with how this is now and what I'm actually gonna do is well I'm gonna come back to the bevel and emboss that I was using and what I've noticed here is you can see it kind of looks that they're in it kind of takes away that feel so I'm just going to turn the opacity of the black all the way down and now you can see it's more a shiny sort of look which is ideal so gonna hit OK on that and I think now we're done with this I think it looks quite cool the reason we have the divide at the top of this one the reason we do that is because if I turn this off you can see it's very internal comback on you see it's very white everything looks very white and there's not much color coming through me although it is kind of a colour it's not necessarily all that color you can't really see much of it but factor one of these off and then turn the top layer back on you see it just starts to add little bits of color here and there so from what from here what you could actually do is you don't have to adjust any of the type anymore if you wanted to change the color of this all you have to do is get your background so I'm just going to hit command J on the background so we have a copy of it and I'm gonna hit command U I'll control U on PC to bring up hue and saturation and now we can just play with this slider and you'll see that when I change the background because we set the shadow that we had it underneath because we've set that to multiply that now changes with the background and because of the blend modes that we have on the actual type itself these pick up colors from the background and apply it to this so now what background you have it on now it will always retain the colors within the liquid so yeah that's pretty much it guys that's how I created this liquid effect in Photoshop so as always if you use this tutorial for anything and post anything on social media feel free to tag me in it always love to see what you guys come up with using it tutorials that I could put out so yeah that's pretty much it guys thank you so much for watching and I'll see you again soon take [Music]

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Length: 17min 58sec (1078 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 30 2017