Freezing Ice Text EffectFreezing Ice Text Effect
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.

nice thing
Posted by Bogdan on November 23rd, 2007 at 2:09 am
Nice dude!
Easy to understand and may be usefully one day!
Thank u!
Posted by Loading on November 23rd, 2007 at 4:01 am
great tutorial.. thanks
Posted by mohammed on November 23rd, 2007 at 7:17 am
fast and easy
Nothing really grate about it but hey
It’s fast and easy :D! Keep up the good work.
Posted by Agilius on November 23rd, 2007 at 7:43 am
Lovely! 5/5 for the tut. will use you again. Now i can make funky text while learning to sig. : D
Posted by Chris on November 23rd, 2007 at 12:32 pm
That is pretty cool (not a pun), cheers dude
Posted by Devil on November 23rd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Nice and easy-understandable tutorial !
I have this program just for a few days, and im still a noob^^.
Is there a way to save this as a text style?
Posted by scray on November 24th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Thanks for this, nice little guide.
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