Interesting design. I’ll have to read this more in depth, when I have some free time.

Hooray! First new tutorial since the redesign. And the first one with the new paid system, which I hope works well

Meanwhiles if anyone is a Digger, and enjoyed the tutorial, don’t forget to Digg it: http://digg.com/design/A_Slick_Supernatural_Text_Effect_in_Photoshop

That’s incredible!
totally awesome!

thanks!

wahooooooo…..
GREAT!

preetty cool man, i like the background. The type ewww

That’s really cool….

i loved the way u made the sky….
should have used a better font…

Another great tut. I’ve only recently discovered this site but what I’ve seen so far looks great!
Nice way to make stars, I can use that for sure

diggi’n it!!
Agree with the font choice. Could be better….
Loving the style of the following image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kailoon/2052149762/in/pool-psdtuts/ any ideas for a TUT?
Ciao

I really love this designed…I’m gonna try this…

Joefrey:)

WOW what a great tut…..

Lovely very nice. Keep ‘em coming!

Hi! Really cool tut… This site really has the greatest tuts for PS around the web… and, Umberto… That image is really simple to make… just make a new layer, fill it with a 3-4 colour gradient and change it’s blending mode to soft light or color or whatever looks good… play around with the opacity too …

Keep up the good work!

yeah I agree could’ve chosen a better font. other than that, the way you explain all ‘o them tuts is awesome. thanks for all!!

I’m not at all keen on this tutorial, it just lacks the class and professional feel most other tutorials on this site seem to have.

I like the colours, but otherwise it’s a bit Trekky for me.

please make video tutorials..i’m willing to pay $8 per month.

Pretty sweet tutorial! Has some interesting techniques

@Collis: Ever looked into that Digg Button plugin for WordPress?

I’ve been trying it but encountered the following problems:

1. if you work with a large image, the clouds are always too small making it unreal (maybe I’m missing something)
2. adding noise on a big image and then increasing contrast to get rid of some “stars” still leaves you with too many (size of the noise should vary)

again, maybe it’s my fault!

I tried to make this tut and it worked very well.
nice work

Nice, but bad font choice

Hi Coliss,

This is my first comment on your site and content. I would like to say how impressive the content and quality of the tutorials are (no wonder membership is growing fast). This tutorial covers a number of subjects if readers really look into it. The obvious extra being the starfield.
I have only given the tutorial the once over so far but I know I will learn something new. I just had to place a comment somewhere on your site as I think it has the potential to be head and shoulders ahead of the rest that are out there.
Good luck and thanks.

XP1

Cool text effect – I like the font, with the exception of the “r”.

Also, a suggestion – I’ve subscribed to the “User+ Community Feed links” via RSS, but I noticed this morning that the feeds don’t have the link in them. So, to get to a user-submitted link, I have to click on “original article” in my reader, come to PSDTuts, then click on the link that I want to see. Is it possible to make the text linked in the rss feed?

That’s an awesome effect. Thanks!

I digg it ! never mind bad font, people chosen the font who love ! humpf

Hi guys great design but i have got stuck a stage 1 lol. I cannot get my clouds to look like the one here mine is very compact in CS3 any ideas guys please??

I’ll try and do this on a video tutorial over the weekend ( using iShowU on the Mac ) , but can’t promise anything. I’m nothing to do with PSDTuts except a user and a fan. Will try to give something back

Good tutorial!
But strangely looks like http://www.artofadambetts.com/weblog/?p=212 ….
um…

I love this tutorial. Could you please put a “print” botton so I can follow it off-line?
Thank you!

OOh my god, a great tutorial again. You rock man!

Hi, i have a problem, when i’m gonna aply the wave efect in the text, when i select filter, the distor option is lock, what i need to do.

Using the “Add Noise” and then “Levels” does not reduce the noise to anything that looks like stars – in fact it seems to have very little effect even when on the exact same setings as those you are using. Likewise, the clouds are way too small, much smaller and more numerous than yours.

Indeed, great tutorial. Great looking space backdrop, also the font is weird, in a nice way. You’re already featured on my blog, http://blog.butterflymedia.ro/, keep up the greatest tutorials on the web.

I really like your Photoshop drawing and FX styles, like smoke, glows, light, gradients, and everything. No detail is left out.

Hey All! Thanks for all the comments…

@Kika: There is actually a “print this post” button at the bottom, it’s nestled in with the digg/delicious etc. But I’ll redesign this section soon to make it a bit clearer

@Umberto: If you are working large, try running the cloud filter once and then press CTRL-ALT-F which gives a slightly different version of the cloud effect and should work slightly better. Other than that, you might need to paint some of the cloud sections with a large, soft brush. With the stars, you should follow the same steps but get rid of more of the noise, then duplicate the layer and press the down arrow once so that the ’stars’ are a little bigger (i.e. 2px instead of 1px). You could try duplicating again and running a Gaussian Blur of 1px as well. Anyhow something along those lines will probably help.

@Ollie: I think the reason the noise isn’t changing is to do with the settings when you apply it. Actually I’m not sure, but I know the problem you’re talking about because it happened to me once too, it was like when I adjusted levels either everything disappeared or nothing disappeared. Hmm, i’ll have a think!

And for everyone who hates the font, you’re probably right, it is a bit of a weird font, my wife walked past when I was making the tutorial and said the same thing, but I still think its kinda cool

again.

you’ve done it yet again.

you’re ability to ‘create an environment where learning can occur’ gets better with every tut.

I had the same problem as Umberto – Italy with a 1920×1200 background

Meanwhiles I’m glad the site is coming up again, for a while the digg load was unbearable. I guess I’m going to have upgrade the server … again

$2.50 is too much in my opinion. Make it a buck, just like an iTunes song and I’d buy it in an instant.

you guys are missing the point about the font choice. who cares. its a tutorial. a very nice one at that. thanks!

Nice one I really like that fog/smoke like effect in the text’s background.
Thanks psdTuts

I actually like the font. But I can’t seem to find it anywhere I go. I would like to use it on a project that I’m working on.
Any thoughts or suggestions?

Collis, this is completely OT, but I’m wondering what plugin you use for internat site searching. Cheers!

I simply love your site. Its absolutely amazing because u guys really maintain the level of all tutorials unlike most other tutorial websites. Great going !!!

Methinks readers do not car for your font. I guess that haven’t heard that we have the ability to change fonts with a few clicks of the button. Oh well. Another great tutorial.

Jason,

Try http://www.dafont.com They have a lot of really great fonts.

I gotta say I don’t care for the pay for source thing. I think there are probably other good ways you could offer up the content cheaply (bittorrent perhaps) at least at first until traffic begins to die down.

As for the tutorial itself, I found the star field part to be much more useful than the text itself.

Another great tutorial…Dude, PSDTuts is the best I’ve ever seen around.

Thanks Zach. For some reason I forgot about dafont. I found a great alternative for my project.

Nice tutorial. This was one of those happy mistakes where I was just turning layers/masking on and off. Instead of the flourescent blue text, I had white text with a gradient mask. Here’s what happened when I simply turned off the entire black text layer (with all the layer effects)….

http://poulosdesign.com/transit/supertheo.jpg

Hey great tutorial, have to say I really liked the darker design, this one is cool but the other one was amazing

Hi,

Please looking on image in this tutorial:

http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/2d__and__photoshop/make_the_most_of_opentype

Please writing tutorial: 3d logo create only photoshop and this logo perspective.

I feel like an absolute idiot, but I can’t get the first step to work. The clouds come out whitish.

Help would be great.

-nOOb

Nevermind.

: D

Fantastic effect! Very simple and beautiful! Congratz!

Collis you’re a genius.

If you’re looking for integrating a premium section, I could probably help you implement that. Just drop me an email sometime

I got all the way through, but couldn’t get my wave-distorted words to smokify properly. I guess practice will make perfect! I’ve been using photoshop for about 4 years by the way and never thought to do some of the things you’ve done in this tutorial with setting layers to ’screen’. Nice!

Thanks!

Hay are you guys kidding, the font falls in when you see the image as a whole. tried it. i liked it and the end result.

Very very great tutorial!

cool

lg>Gery

Awesome tut, thank you! might be helpful!

Fantastic man

عمل في غاية الروعة

cooooooooooooool

@Collis!
Thanks man!! I’ve been experimenting a bit and for far more realistic clouds I used some brushes insted of the cloud effect, then, for the stars usually I choose a round soft brush changing constantly size according to the pen pressure, then add a glow (usually light gray) and the stars ROCK! Also great to create SNOW!!! Try it!

Thanks again.

Hi, i have a problem, when i’m gonna aply the wave efect in the text, when i select filter, the distor option is lock, what i need to do.

Very cool effect

Hi this one is really awesome and pretty easy too,, great work…

Very nice effect, Can use this for sure. I have dugg it as cannot afford 2.50

This is very hard to follow due to the fact that the pictures do not show all the Layer Styles that he applied to the text, but other than that I have to say it was a very good tutorial.

Awesome effect. As usual, mine don’t turn out as nice as yours, but it still looks good

There’s also a really good tutorial on starfields here: http://gallery.artofgregmartin.com/tuts_arts/making_a_star_field.html

–Not sure if I can post this, but feel free to edit if I can’t

Wow two thumbs up for this tutorial- great work done.

Thanks for this.

Great tutorial, thanks again!

Brillian Tutorial! Thanks for all the work you put into this!

Great tut !!! i did it yesterday and i really liked it, here is the link to mine, i didnt put the last text, and i used a different font.

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/9406/texteffectgu4.jpg

That is an awesome tutorial. When I get my new photoshop I’m gonna try it with a layout idea I have.

Excellent tutorial, but i’m not so sure of the font choice.

Thanks for the tut. it’s appreciated!

great! loved it

I love this site, and I think the tutorials are top-knotch, but I have one suggestion.
Could you maybe include the pixel size of the document or at the least the point size on the type. The noise filter at 26% looks a bit different on a letter sized document at 300 ppi that it does at 72 dpi. An inner shadow with a distance of 1 pt. on 36 pt. type isn’t the same as it is on 150 pt. type, or 12 pt. type.

Hi Collis,

Thanks for this awesome tutorial.
I could make it better but I’m still 13 years old and a Newbie in PS.
When I increase my skill I will try it again.

Just like everyone else, I love this tutorial and the site in general! I couldn’t get the text to “smokify” either, at first. However, if I did Step 14, and then Steps 12 and 13, I was fine. I believe it went like this:

Duplicate the text layer with the fluoro blue colour.
Change the color back to white (I had created the blue color via the Color Overlay option, so I right clicked on this latest layer to bring up the context menu and then clicked on Clear Layer Style.)
Click on the shift key and with the magic wand tool select each letter (you’ll get marching ants around each one).
Go to Select > Modify > Contract and use a value of 5px. (I think it’s here that you’re told you have to rasterize. Do so – go to the main menu and click Layer>Rasterize. If you’re not told to do it right here, do it when the message box comes up.)
On the menu bar, click on Layer>Inverse to invert the selection, and hit DELETE.
Then change the color back to the neon blue. (Double click on the layer – being sure you’re not clicking on the name of the layer – to bring up the Layer Style dialog box, go to Color Overlay, and put the color in again.) Click Ok.
On the main menu bar, click on Filter > Distort > Wave. Set the scale settings to 10% and 10%, per the tutorial.
Go through Step 13.
Go on to Step 15 and continue on from there.

By the way, I’m working in Photoshop CS2.

Great Job!! In spanish and with other font: http://www.diegomattei.com.ar/2007/11/26/efecto-de-texto-supernatural/

Sweet. I added some lens flares to make it look even better as per the artogregmartin tutorial. It looks really awesome:

supernatural

Works perfect, love it! followed it straight through in order, worked a charm, nice one, keep them coming.

Very nice tut, thanks. Any chance of posting a download link to the Cuez_Ver6 font, I can’t find it anywhere.

Nice Tutorial!

I combined this tutorials with the one of the meteor.

This is what i came with.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/6244/meteorcopyih6.jpg

Looks like there’s another Greg fan in here

Actually, I stumbled on this site just yesterday and I’m loving every moment I’m in here. This tut gave me a fresh idea on making spiffy smokes in a jiffy I’m loving each and every tuts here.

Only thing is, I’m only using PS7 :p So I do most of the ps’ing manually

I went to the dafont site can’t find the curez font, any ideas?

I love your tutorials! But.. I agree that you should make them $1 instead of $2.50. I think more people would be interested that way.

Where can we get this font? It isn’t even showing up on Google or Yahoo searches.. and no .. it isn’t on dafont!

hi,
that is an amazing design, would you please give me a link for the font please.
Thank you

I just found out about this site, this tutorial and the one with the shield helped me a lot. I really would like to know how can I help support the site.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!

Great tutorials… better then most tutorial sites i’ve seen so far.
Keep em coming!!!

it’s very fantasy. I do not understand most of steps, but the image has been shown it all.
-PSBeginner-

Great Job! Your Tutorial Inspired Me To Do So Much!

That’s great….
i wanna try this tutorial
thx ^_^

These tutorials are so so so money. Thanks again for conveying the knowledge

Hmm not all the style settings are shown. sad

Great tutorial!

I downloaded the tutorial as it was free and now i can’t find it any more – Damn!
Can you please explain Step 9 with more screenshots or more data.

Thanks

Very nice!
Good instructions.

Everytime i even attempt to make the coulds, it will not go that colour, even though i enter that coulor before i do the clouds, and if i make the clouds (any crappy colour) the ’stars’ are always there, and theres too many of em.

good stuff

Wow! Absolut awesome! Nice colors!

Awesome trick, Well Done…….

Wow, that a cool effect.

Its the first time I’ve been to your site. It looks cool

Will be scouting around

Thx

Hey interesting Turtorial it actually rocks! But i will say no one should stick with the exact rules of some ot the smoke effects. I found it easier to use the paint brush to make sploches than use the unpredictable wave tool…seems eaiser to control. Overall it was my first experience with a tutorial from this site and it taought me some very great info! you can view my take on this at myspace.com/mendybing as well as other pieces ive done. Thanks again These tutorials are taking me into the realm of realizm and away from the enclosed box of photoshop effects.

Fantastic! I’ve just made this into a birthday ecard for a friend.

Your tutorials are a step above anything else out there.

i liked the smoke effect alot, well done! ill give it a try when i have time

Incredible tutorial, thanks.

Great !

I just have to say thank you for this wonderfull tutorial!!!
It was insane looking, and i combined it with a phoenix hair tut i found…
So my girlfriend now have phoenix hair, dreamy looking eyes with sparkles, a dreamy environment (supplied by you) and her name written with cool cloudy steamy gassy looking effect!!!

She went crazy!! and all thanks to you

*bows down*

Many thanks from TheOther and his girlfriend =)

i tried it effect is really great …..why don u give us some tuts on how to improve an architectural elevation done in max or maya

Fantastic deign.

It is hilarious. Thanks

Astonishing… Thanks a lot…

Thats the best effect and it was so easy to do…. You rock dude!! Lookin forward for more from you

Every time I get to step 17 it keeps asking me to rasterize and then after I rasterize it tells me the area is empty, what am I doing wrong? =/

ermm im stuck on step 14 canany 1 help ?

VERY kewl indeed!
I am not a wizz with PS, but i made a freakishly good logo for my site with this!
Well, its only text without a background (site background is white..) but its far better then my usual “blur, smooth stroke” logo’s

Check it out if you want.. http://glcoti.com and select the Simple Red theme/skin at the bottom.

Thanks again!

Nice tutorial man… A bit hard to follow to go trought cause the screenshots weren’t the same as the thing you were explaining. But I got a nice result soo thx !

very nice tutorial

Useful!

I liked the font!! this was awesome and used a lot of different processes that could apply to other things. thanks so much for sharing!!

Here comes mine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fokuspace/2104779800/

Great art and skills, thank you for sharing it with us.

Very very cool! I enjoyed it a lot!

great!, i like it

can you please add the link of where can we get Cuez_Ver6

i cant find it anywhere either

I don’t understand why but when I go to distort the duplicated layer, it says that it has to be rasterized, and once it’s rasterized, I can’t click CTRL to select the text. -sad-

I feel like a noob.

Learnt alottttt from these tutorials
they helped me alot!!!!!
Thank you soo muchhhhh!!!!

especially great for all those star treckers out there lol. nice effect

Hey!

Congratulations, you’ve just got a new loyal reader!
First time ever I see a tutorials website, with real effects.
I work with Photoshop since 2002, and I’m very impressed!

I’ll sign up here right now

See ya, friend! Igor from Brazil.

Wonderful tut

wonderfull .. very different

thank you .. good.

thank you very good job.

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Congratulations to the tutorial and the effect created
Where can I buy font Cuez_Ver6 ?

thank you for this tutorial.

thanks for tips.

between steps 17 and 18, there has to be something extra, I followed step by step, and could never get it to go from fluoro blue, strait to that whispy stuff you have in 18.

wohhhhhhhhoooooo!.. i love this effect!very much thanks.

woww.. very impressive.. wonderfull thanx.

congratulations!.

.

congratulations!.

very good tips.

co0l!

Thanks for this….totally using this wispy smoke the way you did it now..quick n dirty!!!

fantastic tutorial, ive followed it right through but im having trouble. basically my smoke wisps look garbage, and ive come to the conclusion that its the font that, once distorted, gives the wisps that shape. i cant prove this becuase i dont have that font and cant find it ANYWHERE, not on dafont, not on 1001fonts, no other link on google, or what any other link anyones posted so if u could post it or email it to me that would be great=]

thats pretty much only trouble with this, everything else was a bit of a journey but i still came through to the end, and i cant wait to finish it

i hope u can post some more tutorials mate this and ur advanced glow ones were great although im having trouble with the pen tool on that one :S

Not too fond of the font on this one, but really great effect

Great site. I’ve enjoyed looking around.

WOW! This Is Absolutely Amazing Work Here…
I Have Tried And Tried Doing This Myself And Not Succeeding In Anyway…
I Need One For My Group Called ‘Violationz’
If Anyone Out There Would Be So kind To Make One For Me….
Please It Would Be A Great Help…

My Email Is JamieE1991@googlemail.com

hi, this design is wonderfull, i did it in 3 hours, thanks for shareing it

wtf??

Ok – What are you all getting that is keeping me from getting beyond the first part??

Everytime I try to make the original “clouds” with that blue/black combination, I get a black background with white clouds on it.

Please be extremely specific in the tutorials as I simply don’t get what you mean by the initial step of choosing a blue/black and then going to filter-render-clouds.

I’ve spent 1/2 an hour trying to figure out this one step and I’m not a total noob to PS. Frankly, I’m hoping to find work with using it.

Sorry if I seem edgy, but I keep running into these probs with the tutorials. They should never assume that someone just “gets” a step.

Pretty good tutorial. j3333, you have to choose the blue and black BEFORE you render the clouds dummy. There are a couple of areas in the tutorial that just assume you know what you’re doing and if I didn’t have the photoshop background I have, I probably wouldn’t have been able to finish this. Overall I’d say this is rather advanced for a simple text image but I still give it a 9/10. Good job buddy. I rather enjoyed the final.

saludos esta full todos los tutoriales

HI, im new to photoshop. I am trying to get the distort > wave to work. i typed a text, i pressed rasterize on the text layer, and still cant use it. any ideas what im doing wrong?

Nice work…

hello pretty tutorial ñ_ñ

I can make a question what is the name of the typography that you use?

Saludos =)

Thanks for Posting.
Excellent Tut.

Just like a dream

sweet,im making one of it.pretty cool

ok frow were can i download the psd ???

what font do you use for the smaller text, i realy like that

Jon

It looks like Trojan Pro

I want the font “cuez_ver6″…
I want to download this font..

Hey it was gud until step 7
it was fine but after that all went hey-wire
please can u again explain it properly,,,,,
my id
lovingsaten@gmail.com

Thx for the tutorial, I tried it and it came out awesome.

It’s a lot of people having problems with the cloud effect in large images.

One trick is to mark the cloud layer and choose free transform and link the width and hight and enlarge it to 150-200%

Found another way to make these stars… add noise about 10-20% on a black background, and go image>adjustments>threshold, and drag it just to the beginning of the histogram, and apply gaussian blur (<1 px) and you’ve got some decent looking stars. This was found on: http://www.photoshopatoms.com/tutorials/creating-a-starry-night-sky/
and it worked for me!

Muito bom gostei mesmo!

awesome …… im gonna try this…good job

I can’t get the “stars” to work, when I put same levels as you it just dissapears and I can’t make em come out as good as you did..

Don’t know what I’m doin wrong since I’m followin the tut step by step, should work imo..

Guess I’ll try Bill’s tip with the stars..
Well, your result was awesome anyway, good job I guess

I can’t get the stars to work either, the levels aways disappear. If anyone can figure this out, please let me know. Nice tut though.

What you have to realise is this tutorial was created at 72dpi and so by default the stars and clouds appear as they do in the tutorial but it seems to me everyone is following this tut and creating the image at 300dpi so of course the pixels are much smaller. Therefore for the cloud effect you need to select the clouds background and scale it up and then crop to the page area and the stars are best created with the brush tool and then Alt/Shift and drag to duplicate.

Really awesome bro!

CHEERS

Thanks for this tutorial, it’s easy to follow, and my result are similar to yours ! Even if i’m a noob with photoshop.

Your the best

oh that is vry cool stuff for… how to using the effect in photoshop….

Wow… very.. very cool. I like it..

thanks for the tutorial it was easy to follow most of the time however it would have been better if the instructions were a little more clearly

a1 cool

nice man…………….
incredible tutorial

useful ,thanks man, great job

i want atutorial of A Slick Supernatural Text Effect…plZZZ send me

to j333
the blue/black he’s talking about is you change the colors on your main foreground/background to blue and black instead of the normal black/white.
has anyone been able to find this Cuez_Ver6 anywhere?
Collis (author of tutorial) should tell us where he got this font.

he is not really giving the exact values and instructions so all i can say is that it’s a bit confusing and not really helpful specially to the beginners… When i took a glance to the layer values they are a bit different than to what was being explained in the tutorial.. a bit discouraged since it was not really meant for others to follow such design. I was there and I would say that this work is really great but it would be nice if u would give the true instruction.

thank you for this working
sorry my lung. is limited

wow keren thanks

That is soooo cool. Thanks heaps for that. It will really help me with some of my stuff.

great collis you are always great

ok one the step where it says to “hold down control and click the text layer” for some reason i cant get that to work….probably just me. im using CS4 on a mac. help would be amazing

awesome design by the way

i really dont understand ,
Step 9
Finally I added a Drop Shadow and Outer Glow, both set using Screen and the color #008ac5. I used both so that I could make one of them a small glow and one a really spread out glow, so the distances were 10px and 100px.

at this point mine bearly looks any 3D at all and that step dosent make sense cause theres no distance on outerglow were it says to make it 100px

can i find psd file from this tut ?

where can i go to buy the psd. And if i do, can i edit the text to make it what i like? and would i need to have the font installed on my computer if i wanted the exact same one as his?

its really hard but i really love it! thanks!

actually how Now set the stars layer’s blending mode to Screen so that the black vanishes and just the stars remain at Step 4…i am freshman touch PS

This is great… thanks a lot!

it is nice but i dont understand what Step 4. cos im deaf make it clear, add me, email dr.hitman@hotmail.co.uk if you wish to explain to me. thanks

hi
1st thanks for the tutorial its awesome
we i looked everywhere for this font but i couldnt find it
is it the only name this font is called
thanks

My first exctual design.
You helpt me alot man.!
Check out my url with the pic.!

Very awesome tut >>>> thanx pal

Nice stuff man. Keep up the good work. It was a bit hard to follow but, i got it down. Thanks!

THANKS ITS SO NICE AND WE R EXPECTING MORE

I have done with tutorial,
but there are steps missing.
not only do the images in this tutorial mislead the designer, but they are not correct. i did exactly what this said and still got something different. please correctly add the neccessary steps. for example, Inner Shadow.

dont get me wrong, i loved this tutorial, i just wanted it to look exactly like it.

I can’t get the stars to work. As soon as I hit okay after messign with the levels everything disappears and goes back to what it looked like it did before the levels.

Has anyone figured out the problem? I even tried the other tutorial that someone posted and it does the same damn thing.