GFX Tutorial #1 - Texts in GFX

There have been concerns on the text of the GFX that the team and I have seen. In this short tutorial, we will be teaching you how to make a very effective text that is suitable and will match the signature you are making. This tutorial is not copied or anything but made based on my experience and knowledge along with other GFXing friends in the past. As I was also once a rookie GFXer, I know how hard it is choosing fonts and editing them to make it very good to go with the creation. So please acknowledge that. Anyways, the tutorials will also be colour coded to match what you would like to read because I know not everyone likes to read full tutorials. Hope you enjoy!~

Colour Codes:
Keywords
Official Tutorial/Steps
Our Recommendations
Normal Text

Keywords:
GFX - Graphics
DSS - Distance, Spread and Size
SS - Spread and Size

Steps:

1. Visit the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] website

2. Choose a text you would like, usually as a GFXer we would choose more than 5 different texts for different scenarios in signatures, etc.

3. Download the text you would like

4. Go to Control Panel > Fonts and drag the fonts you downloaded inside

This will give you a good set of fonts for your signatures, however if you're a Photoshop user, here is a little more to the guide.

[For Photoshop users only]

1. Go to text, choose your font and type in your default text and remember to keep it white!

2. Click on the layers tab on the bottom right hand corner if you haven't done so.

3. Right click on your text layer

4. Choose and click on "Blending Options..."

5. There you have a lot to play around with but if you want to do it like our way, keep reading.

Our recommendations:

6. Click on the Drop Shadow box

7. Do not touch anything except change the DSS to 5, 13 and 8

8. Click on the Outer glow box

9. On the structure tab, set the colour of glow around the same colour to your signature so it would blend in for a good match.

10. Change the SS to approximately 30 and 10 but play around until you think it's perfect.

11. Click 'OK' and voila! There you go!

Thanks for reading this tutorial!~

RaG3D-B0N3, Head of GFX Team

P.S. If there are any questions feel free to ask!