This is
a simple but effective technique for adding a little pizzazz to
your text.
Open a new picture
300 X 150, 144, RGB, White
Set your
Foreground colour to Black, and Background colour to white
With your text
tool type in the word you want to shadow. For this exercise I
used "Designing Webs". Set your Text tool to Times Roman, Bold,
18 point
Type your word,
then select the Move tool and center it
Right click on the
Text layer and click Duplicate layer
Click Edit /
Transform / Flip Vertical
With the Text tool
selected click the Create Warped Text, (It is on the top next to
the palettes button). Set to Shell Upper, Horizontal, Bend 30,
Horizontal Distortion 0, Vertical Distortion -30.
With your move
tool position the upside-down text under the text you typed
Click Edit / Free
Transform and the upside-down text to match the original text
Click Layer /
Layer Style / Gradient Overlay / Set Blend to normal, Opacity
100, gradient reverse, Style linear, align with layer, angle 90,
scale 100
Double click on
the copy text layer and change the opacity to 50
Your done !! Play with the various settings and see what
you come up with.