Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
Underwater Text
This tutorial will show you how to create a text with a nice underwater effect like this:
Step 1
Open a new RGB document of 300x300px or any other size.
Use Filter --> Noise --> Add Noise with these settings:
Step 2
Yor're going to use the chrome filter now.
Filter --> Sketch --> Chrome
Step 3
It's time to write your text. Use a bold font and apply some blending options, I used stroke and Bevel and Emboss to get to this:
Step 4
Hit CTRL-E to merge the layers.
Now apply Filter --> Stylize --> Extrude and fill in these settings:
Step 5
The next Filter you have to use is Glass (Filter --> Distort --> Glass) to make it look like water
You may want to experiment with the scaling settings, the other settings should be applied as shown below.
This is what you will get:
Step 6
Now hit CTRL-U and pick a color for your image, i used these values to get a water like color:
There's your underwater text effect: