Create Glossy Dollar Sign With Photoshop

August 24, 2010 | Filed underContrast,Designing,Digital Effects,Drawing,Effects,Floating,Photoshop,PSD,Text Effects,Tools Designing,Transform | Posted by NadeemSMB

And now your text should look something like this:

Looks pretty nice so far, don’t yoy think?
3. Adding further Effect
Next thing to do is add a few nice details to the text.Start by making a new layer, then select the text by holding ctrl and left-clicking the thumbnail in the layer’s palette.

Next, in your Photoshop menus, go to Select > Modify > Contract, and use a radius of about 2-4 pixels, not very important here.

So, be sure you’re on a new layer then fill your selection with white (#ffffff). With your selection still active, move it up about 2 pixels and press delete.

In the above image I have also moved the layer up 2 pixels after deleting the larger portion. To make this layer blend a little better, lower the opacity to about 40-60% and change the layer mode to either Overlay or Soft Light, your choice!

4. Finishing Off

To finish this off, you might want to make a smaller version of the dollar sign logo and move it over to the right a little beside the original. You can do this either by duplicating your original text layer and making it smaller, or you can duplicate both of your layers, merge them together then resize it.

This is what I ended up with anyway:

I’ve also made my result image into a neat little MSN display picture, which I occassionally use

Feel free to use the display picture if you want to! Well, this tutorial is over. Thanks very much for reading, and I hope you enjoyed. If you would like to, you can download the PSD file from this tutorial from here: Glossy Dollar Sign Photoshop Tutorial just download from the link given below.