Ice Text

Hello all today we are going to make a Icy text effect in adobe photoshop:



First make a canvas ( I used 400 x 200 px ) and fill it with black:



Second we need to type in our text ( I used “Icy” with Ariel Black at 72pt ):



Now rasterize the text layer by right clicking the layer and click Rasterize Type:



Right click the Icy layer and click Merge down:



Goto Filter > Pixelate > Crystallize:



Enter 3 as the Cell Size:



Now goto Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur:



Enter 1 pixel and click ok:



Now goto Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW:



Goto Filter > Stylize > Wind:



Make sure From the Right is ticked and click ok:



Now goto Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CCW:



Then Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation:



Enter Hue: 215 Saturation: 50 Lightness: 0 and make sure Colorize is checked:



And here is your final result:



Thanks for looking at this tutorial and hope you learned from this.

Thank You Very Much!
I needed one.
SInce my username is associated with Ice

Snow-kun wrote:

Thank You Very Much!
I needed one.
SInce my username is associated with Ice

No problem. Will put a snow one up in a minute also...

Thank you for the tutorial, now when you say to put a text, we always do a white text?

here is what my final image looks

Thanks. This is great for reference.

Frostbite wrote:

Aren't you supposed to... credit the person who posted it originally :/

*looks at own sig* I know for a fact I read that somewhere else...

My guess at the original poster : Tutorial - Freezing Ice Text Effect | TutorialDesk

There are millions of rips across the web... Didn't know what link to use when I posted it...

From what I understand, when posting something from anywhere no matter what and not crediting if its not original or its a "RIP"

Lovemonster wrote:

From what I understand, when posting something from anywhere no matter what and not crediting if its not original or its a "RIP"

You can search for 'Ice text' ' Photoshop Tutorial' and it will come up with thousands of this guide and thousands of other variations. I thought people could do that.

A rip is when you take credits, which I didn't do.