It’s been a while since I last posted here. Well, Ive been busy with lots of things such as studies(o.O)/projects/exams, ‘fiesta’ , personal life, seo, facebook? and many more hehe. ^^, Now that I have this little time, I’m going to share this one simple text effect that i love in photoshop.

Just click ‘Read more’ to see the step by step procedures. Note: click on the images to see the full preview.

• First make a new canvass with a size of your choice (in this tutorial I made a 640×480 canvass with black as background color). Then type the text you want to be glossy.

• Open the text layer’s style window and copy the following settings.

• Now, select the Pen Tool from the Tools Palette and make a path similar to the path on the image below.

• Close the path and right click on it then choose Make Selection.

• Make a new layer and select the Gradient Tool. Make a White to Transparent gradient then fill the selection. (White on top and going transparent downward.)

• CTRL+click on the text layer while the new layer was chosen. Invert the selection by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+I or by going to Select -> Invert. Then press Delete.

• Now Deselect the selection by pressing CTRL+D or by going to Select -> Deselect. And it’s all done! Your masterpiece should look like this.

Hope you enjoy this tutorial. If you have questions/suggestions just fill in the comment form below.