Now to get the funky dragon scaled effect, apply the following layer effects..

Drop Shadow..

Bevel and Emboss..

Contour..

Texture..

For this I used the Stone Pattern.

Color Overlay..

Pattern Overlay..

For this I used the Streaks Pattern.

Apply these settings and you should have something like this..

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Make a new document, any size doesn’t matter. I used 300px by 300px for this tutorial.

Start off by selecting your text, Preferably a thick one as seen below.

Right, once you have your text layer, duplicate it, we come back to this layer later in the tutorial..

We are going to be adding a few layer effects to the bottom text layer.

So here we go…

Drop Shadow..

Inner Shadow..

Outer Glow..

Bevel and Emboss..

Contour..

Color Overlay..

Apply these settings and you should have something like this..

As we can see, it doesnt look that great.. But as we all know, its the end result that is what we wait for..

Lets push on..

Select the top text layer in your layers pallet and apply the following layer effects..

Drop Shadow..

Bevel and Emboss..

Contour..

Satin..

Stroke..

Apply the settings and set the Fill of this layer to 50%. You should have something that looks like this..

Here are a few more examples I have made..

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To start off, I have a new document. 400px by 400px filled with a black background.

Use the text tool, and type the text you want the effect to be applied to. I have used the word Sky for this tutorial.

This is where the tutorial gets tricky. Ok, first lower the FILL of the text to 0%, so it is effectively invisible. This is NOT the Opacity, just the Fill.

Apply a Drop Shadow to the text layer with the following settings:

To the same layer, apply an Inner Glow with the following settings:

And now add a Bevel And Emboss effect with these settings:

Apply the settings and duplicate the text layer. Disable all the effects, and apply the following Bevel And Emboss settings:

Now add a contour with these settings:

Apply the settings and duplicate this layer. Now remove the contour for this new layer, and apply these settings to the Bevel And Emboss menu:

Apply and you should have something like this:

What is great about this text is it is transparent. For the last step find an image you want to use as a background. I have made a a cloudy sky with a bit of glare from the sun. This was dome using Cloud render with a gradient layer mask removing the clouds from the top left. the sun glare is a simple lens flare.

Here is another example using another font and backgroung.

Hint: From my playing around with this, I suggest using a fat or bold font as the results are more pleasing.

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Lets start off by opening a new document with a background of #3e3e3e, any size will do, but the bigger the better, you will see why later on in the tutorial.

Select you text tool with a large fat font, for this tutorial I have used Berlin Sans FB, and type something in the centre of your document.

Right, now that you have done that we are going to add a layer style t the text.

For convenience I have the images here for you to copy. I have resized them to fit on this page, click on the images for larger views…

Go ahead and apply these settings.

Inner Glow:

Bevel and Emboss:

Contour:

Gradient Overlay:

Stroke:

Once those settings have been applied, you should have something similar to this.

For this next step, yu will see why I said that a bigger the document the better.

Before we begin this step, you will need to download a brush set that I found here, take a momet to download and load it into PhotoShop.

Once you have done that, create a new layer and select Black as your foreground color, then with select a newly loaded brush secected, start to do random brush strokes over tour text, but dont go overboard with this.

Here is a what mine looks like at this point.

Dont worry if it looks a bit hideous, we will be cleaning it up in a second.

Now to “clean” it up, Ctrl + click on the text thumbnail on the layers pallett, this will make a selection of the text. With this secected, go to Select – Inverse (Shift+Ctrl+I).

So it looks like this…

At this point make sure that your layer that you added the brush strokes to is selected, once it is, hit the Delete key. Deselect the selection by pressing Ctrl+D.

Your text should be coming along lovely now, here is mine at tis point.

Lets give our text that real decaying feel to it shall we. Again we are going to add a layer style with a few settings, so here we go…

Bevel and Emboss:

Satin:

Color Overlay:

Apply that style and set the Fill of this layer to 25% and the Mode to Linear Burn.

Now go to Image-Adjustments-Hue/Saturation. At this point it i down to you to play around with this as each font will have different settings.

As a guide, Here are the settings I used on mine.

With all o this done, your end result should be quite “decayed”

Here is my Final result

And here is another example…

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