I can't get layer styles to work on my custom texts....

WhiteBoi360

First off I will say I'm a photoshop noob. Today is my first day getting started, and I'm not really artistic at all lol...

With that said, what I am trying to accomplish is to create a logo type text for my lil store in Second Life.

I have used this guide:
http://sixrevisions.com/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/how-to-create-remarkable-3d-text-in-photoshop/

I did exactly what the guide said and had my text looking pretty accurate. (using his text as a feel for the program)

Then I started to implement the guide with my own custom text. That's where it didnt work for me lol

What I have so far: http://tinypic.com/r/j58k68/7

What I'm doing is.. I'm using 1 font to type the logo White Boi Productions
Then I use the lasso and delete the dots in the i's and also delete the t's.
Then I use a different font and type a dagger symbol and use that for the t's.
After that I type music notes and use those to dot the i's using a different font.

Next, I merge them into 1 layer, so I only have 2 layers: the background, and my logo.. And then I want to go to layer style to spice up my logo and give it cool colors etc.. but it doesn't work when I do my text that way for some reason.. whatever color I choose, it just colors on the side of the canvas lol its weird..

It worked fine in the first explanation, but won't work for my custom text
:-? Any help would be greatly appreciated

renata · Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 1:41 am Post subject:

I think you may have left a few steps out in your description of what you did? You describe typing text, then lassoing to delete bits of the text, then typing more text. It sounds like you have rasterised the text at some point, or it wouldn't have let you delete just parts of it.

I don't want to read your tutorial in detail, but I noticed that step 4 said "rasterise the text".

Where I suspect you are going wrong is knowing the point at which you must rasterise. Here's the go. Text and custom shapes are "vectors". They resize very nicely, but and you can't use the normal pixel based editing things on them. Like deleting the dot on the "i". You have to "rasterise" them first.

But before you go ahead with step 4 (the "rasterise" step), check that you have collected all the vectors that you need (i.e text and vector shapes). Have all the text typed - it's OK to mix fonts and sizes. It's probably easier if you leave spaces in the text for where you are going to put your extra shapes. It's OK to have several layers. Don't worry at this stage about the bits that you are going to ERASE. You can't delete bits from it at this stage. So the dot on the "i" will still be there for now. Be patient!

Once you have all the text and shapes, step back and have a look. This is the stage where you should resize things and move them where you want them within the logo. Remember, you can't delete pieces of them at this stage.

If you're happy, rasterise them (for you, I'd suggest rasterise them one by one). NOW you can delete the dot on the i and stuff like that.

After this, merge the layers which make up the logo (NOT the background).

Then follow your tutorial from step 5. Go slowly and carefully and you should be OK.

WhiteBoi360 · Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 6:14 am Post subject:

I somehow managed to get it to work before you replied Eek

I just started over from scratch..

But your post makes perfect sense, I probably cut out stuff prior to rasterised.

So thank you so much for all that helpful info, I had no idea it had to be done in that order. Guess I got pretty lucky on my final product lol

Anyways thanks a ton!

renata · Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 2:28 pm Post subject:

No worries, glad you got it working.

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