Frosted Text

Introduction

In this tutorial, i will show you how to create a frosted ice text. After you learn this technique you can apply it too all sorts of different things.

Step 1

Open a new document that is any size for your text (mine is 500x500), RGB, on White Background.

Fill the background color with black, and create a new text layer with the font of your choice as well as the color of your choice

Step 2

Duplicate your text layer, and rasterize the new layer.(A). Then, rotate the canvas 90 Degrees CW

Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW (B). And add the wind filter, from the right. (C)

(A)

(B)

(C)

Now, rotate the canvas back to the original, (Image>Rotate Canvas>90 CCW) and you should have something like this:

Pretty cool huh? Real easy way to get ice text.

Now, play around with text color and blending modes, and come up with something like this

Good luck!