Gel type tutorial

Step1:Choose your font, size and color.

Step2: Type your word.

Step3: In your layers palette apple + click your type layer to put the marching ants around the text. Create a new layer.

Step4: Go under the Select menu, under Modify, and choose Contract. When the contract dialog apears, enter 2 pixels, and click ok, then press Option + Delete to fill your contracted, setection.

Step5: Deselect by pressing Apple+ D. Duplicate this layer by dragging it to the new layer icon. Go under the filter menu, under Blur and choose Gaussian Blur when the dialog box appers, enter 3 pixels, and click ok.

Step6: Choose Bevel and Bmboss from the layer styles pop up menu at the bottom of the layers palette, enter:

Style= Emboss

Depth= 300

Size= 12

Highlight Opacity= 100%

Shadow Opacity= Color Dodge

Black Color swatch= White

Shadow Mode Opacity= 40%

Step7: In the layers palette click on the eye icon beside the background layer to hide it. Then choose Merge visible from the palettes drop down menu. Choose Drop Shadow from the styles menu and click ok. Click on background layer to reveal it.