pply the Tone Curve
filter, remove the mask selection, invert the image, and apply
the Gamma filter.
- Click Image menu, Adjust, Tone Curve.
- Edit the curve by clicking and dragging nodes
on the graph until the curve looks like this.
- Click OK.
- Click Mask menu, Remove.
- Click Image menu, Transform, Invert.
- Click Image menu, Adjust, Gamma.
- In the Gamma dialog box, type 1.72 in the Gamma
box, and click OK.
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Add
dripping icicles to the text with the Wind filter and an icy blue
color with the Color Balance filter.
- Click Effects menu, 2D Effects, Wind.
- Type 89 in the Opacity box.
- Type 30 in the Strength box.
- Type 270 in the Direction box, and click OK.
- Click Image menu, Convert To, RGB Color (24-bit).
- Click Image menu, Adjust, Color Balance.
- In the Range section of the Color Balance dialog
box, disable the Highlights check box. Make sure the other items
are enabled.
- Type -100 in the Cyan-Red box, -14 in the Magenta-Green
box, 10 in the Yellow-Blue box, and click OK.
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Blur
the text with the Motion Blur filter, and
apply the Unsharp Mask filter.
- Click Effects menu, Blur, Motion Blur.
- In the Motion Blur dialog box, type 2 in the
Distance box.
- Type 270 in the Direction box.
- Click the Ignore Pixels Outside Image button,
and click OK.
- Click Effects menu, Sharpen, Unsharp Mask.
- In the Unsharp Mask dialog box, type 50 in the
Percentage box.
- Type 2 in the Radius box, 0 in the Threshold
box, and click OK.
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For
the finishing touch, add some sparkles to the icy text.
- Click the Paint tool from
the Toolbox.
- On the Property Bar, click
the Nib Shape picker.
- Select the nib shape that looks like a big "X."
- Click the white color swatch from the on-screen
Color Palette.
- Click to add white sparkles.
Now you have learned how to create icy text. Here's
an example of what your image might look like.
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