Turning text into a soft texture map

Our next project will be to take this white text at the bottom of this …composition and give it this credit card treatment. …And notice if you zoom in on the text you can see that the letters are not only …rounded and lit but the sort of oranges bars wrap around the letter forms as …well. And that's a combination of the lighting …effects and displace filters working together. …In this movie, I'll show you how to take this white text here and convert it into …something that will work as a texture map for the Lighting Effects filter, as well …as a displacement map for the Displace filter.…

Now, the first thing you want to do if you're working along with me, is edit …this text to your hearts content. So, in other words, if you don't want to …work with this made up name here, you want to enter your name, then, now's the …time to do so. Then, click on the layer below the text …layer, which happens to be the Bar layer here. …And then press the Alt key, or the Option key on a Mac, and click and hold on that …