Step 1.

Start of with a new document. Sized 600600

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Choose any background you want. I choosed a black to dark grey gradient, and write your text using a bold font. I choosed Berlin Sans FB.

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Step 2.

Add your layer styles to the text:

Blending options:


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Drop shadow:

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Inner glow:



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Bevel and emboss:

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This should be the result:


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Step 3.

Let`s add some colour to this glass text. Create a new layer. Grab the gradient tool with the settings in the picture below and start from top to bottom add a gradient:

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Go to Filter-Distort-Wave with these settings:

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This is the result:

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Add to the result a Gradient overlay with the settings below:

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This is how it should look like:

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Now create a new layer underneath this wave layer, then select back the wave layer right click it Merge Down (Ctrl+E)

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Set blending mode to Screen: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

With the wave layer selected, hold CTRL on your keyboard and click the thumb of the Special text layer. This will create a selection of the text on the wave layer. Go to the drawing area over the selection right click it with the mouse and choose Select Inverse. Cut the selection:

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This is what you should have:

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Step 4.

Duplicate the Wave layer and with the new duplicated wave layer go to Filter-Distort-Glass with these settings:

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This is what it should look like:
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With the other wave layer selected go to Filter-Distort-Ripple with these settings:

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This is the result :

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Because of the transparency on the text it looks great on any background:

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