Casting a Text Shadow

This is a simple but effective technique for adding a little pizzazz to your text.
 

1. Open a new picture 300 X 150, 144, RGB, White

   
   

2. Set your Foreground colour to Black, and Background colour to white

   
   

3. 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

   
   

4. Type your word, then select the Move tool and center it

   
   

5. Right click on the Text layer and click Duplicate layer

   
   

6. Click Edit / Transform / Flip Vertical

   
   

7. 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.

   
   

8. With your move tool position the upside-down text under the text you typed

   
   

9. Click Edit / Free Transform and the upside-down text to match the original text

   
   

10. Click Layer / Layer Style / Gradient Overlay / Set Blend to normal, Opacity 100, gradient reverse, Style linear, align with layer, angle 90, scale 100

    
    

11. Double click on the copy text layer and change the opacity to 50

    
    

12. Your done !! Play with the various settings and see what you come up with.