Create a frosted sugar text effect in Photoshop

Sweet candies are a snack that most people love, so have you ever thought about using Photoshop to create this frosted sweet candy text effect? ??In this tutorial, you will learn how to make it. A sugary text mainly uses custom brushes, layer styles and other technologies in Photoshop. Isn’t this effect very good? Come and learn it now.

The steps are as follows:

Step 1

Open a black texture background image and type text, as shown in the picture:

The one used here The font is Lobster, of course you can also use your favorite font (Font

Step 2

If you look closely at the sugar crystals, you will find that they are almost all square in appearance. So let’s customize a brush first.

Create a new 50x50px canvas, fill it with black, execute: Edit Define Brush Preset, set a name, and click OK now. You will see a square brush in your brush panel:

Step 3

Set the brush size to 5px, and set the brush shape state in the brush panel, the parameters are as follows:

Step 4

Set the scatter with the following parameters:

Step 5

Right-click the text layer in the layers panel , select Create Work Path.

Select the Direct Selection Tool (A), click the Path Operations button on the top toolbar, and select Merge Shapes.

Step 6

Hide the text layer and create a new blank layer

Set the foreground color to white and select the path with the Direct Selection tool. Right-click on your canvas and select Stroke. Path.

In the Stroke Path dialog box, select the Brush tool and click OK:

Step 7

Create a new blank layer and set the brush size. to 4px, repeat the sixth step:

Step 8

Create a new blank layer, set the brush size to 3px, and set the brush spread amount to 500%, repeat the sixth step Operation:

Step 9

Create a new blank layer, set the brush size to 2px, and follow step 6.

You should now have four layers of sugar. The crystal layers are sugar crystals of different sizes (Tip: You can press Ctrl+H to hide the working path)

Step 10

Apply the following layer style to each sugar crystal. Layers: (Tip: You can Alt+click and drag the effect in the Layers panel to copy a layer style from one layer to another)

Bevel and Emboss:

For color overlay, use the color #EEEEEE:

Shadow:

Step 11

Set the brush size to 3px, the scatter amount to 1000%, and the spacing to 1000%:

Step 12

Create a new blank layer, use a brush to draw some sugar crystal particles on the edge of your text, and copy the layer style in step 10 to this layer:

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Step 13

Re-open your originally hidden text layer, set the fill to 0%, and apply the following layer style:

Inner Shadow:

Step 14

Create some small slogans using your favorite font and place them in the appropriate position. In the layer panel, right-click the slogan text layer, select Create working path, and hide The original slogan text layer.

Set the brush size to 3px, the spacing to 10%, and the spread to 100%.

Create a new blank layer and repeat step six.

Also copy the layer style in step ten:

Step 15

Create a Curves adjustment layer and drag the middle of the curve down and to the right , then click on the Curves adjustment layer's layer mask and use a black, large, soft brush to apply your adjustments only to the edges of the image:

Step 16

Click: Create a new fill layer gradient in the layer, set a name, click OK, and set the gradient color from black to white. Other parameters are as shown in the figure.

In the Layers panel, change the blending mode of this layer to Overlay and fill it with 35%:

Step 17

Click the Ellipse tool and create a 400px Fill the circle with white and move it to the top of the letter u.

Set the feather amount to 75px in the properties panel.

Set the layer blending mode to Color Dodge and fill 10%. This step mainly sets a "spotlight" effect

The quality of the finished product depends on the details, so be patient and try different How about brush settings to get better results?