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 marching ants around your text. Create a new layer.

Step4:Go under the select menu under modify choose contract dialog appears, 2 pixels, and click OK, then press option + Delete
to fill your contracted selection.

Step5:Deselect by pressing apple+D. Duplicate this layer by dragging it to the new layer icon. Go under filter menu, under blur and choose Gaussian Blur. When the dialog box appears, enter 3 pixels, and click OK.

Step6Choose Bevel and Emboss from the layer.
Styles pop up menu at the bottom of layers palette.
Style:Embose
Deth:300
Size:12
Highlight Opacity:100%
Shadow mode:Coler Dodge 40%
Black color swacth: white
Click OK.

Step7:In the layers palete click on the eye icon beside the background layer to hide it. Then choose merge visible from the palettes drop shadow menu. Choose drop shadow from the styles menu and click OK. Click on the background layer to revael it.