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Creating a Dissolve text effect

Creating a Dissolve text effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a Dissolve text effect

In this exercise I am going to show you how to create a custom text effect using the dissolved mode. Specifically we'll be creating the effect you see here and the name of the file by the way is Stress text.psd found inside the 03_normal folder. I'm going to switch over to this file, White type.psd. Notice that it contains an editable text layer. Now I'll start things off by applying the dissolve mode. So I'll switch from Normal to Dissolve like so, and we get those slightly dithered edges. Now to increase the fact we need to blur the text, we can't blur the text directly, so we first need to convert it to a smart object by going up to Layers panel fly-out menu and choosing Convert to Smart Object or if you loaded my DekeKeys, you can press Ctrl +, or Command+, on the Mac. Next I'm going to go up to the Filter menu choose Blur and choose Gaussian Blur and I'll take the Radius value up to 5 pixels, but the great thing here is that you can change your mind anytime you want. So after…

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