Creative Stylesheets

Moldy Media 7. . . An odd name but nonetheless it displays the techniques used from a three part tutorial on Youtube created by my college tutor to create 3D text, lightening effects and a great looking background. I found it to be very useful as I am relativly new to Photoshop CS4 but I think the outcome looks quite good.

The main effects in the tutorial involved gradient tools for the background (then putting a cloud effect in over the top with lower opacity.) and creating the 3D effect for the text. I did this by duplicating the moldy media layer several times and by adding a motion blur to them and positioning them behind the original moldy media part. The rest, the lightening and background text, were relativly easy to do. The lightening was just the cloud effect with edited hue/saturation and colour balance and the background text was made using the simple text tool and then I edited its opacity for the effect. To finish it all off I made the background look as if it is raining by adding noise and then blurring that layer.