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Today i will show some techniques of how to create a shiny ornamental text effect with photoshop. Have a look.

For this I have used some images of ornaments

Open all with photoshop at first.

Open a new document with photoshop.

Fill the background With ‘Black’

Now, cut one object from our secong image and drag it over our document

Copy the ornament layer 6 times

Ok, for my text ‘ART’, I can work with six layers. If you are using any other text, count how many layers you will need.

Now, make active only the Layer 1 and inactive all other layers.

Now, select layer 1

Go to Edit->Transform->90 degree cw

Press Ctrl+T

Right click the mouse and select distort

Now drag from corners to give it a shape.

Press Enter

Now make active layer1 copy

Again Rotate, transform and distort to get a shape of Letter A

We will get this


Press Enter

Erase a little to match it well

Now merge this two active layer and rename ‘A’

We got our first letter A

Now make active next layer

Press ctrl+t to transform

Then select Distort from right click

Create a shape like this

Make next layer active

We are now going to create the curve of R

Press Ctrl+T and right click the mouse

Select warp

Now drag from each corner to create a Curve shape like this:

Erase unnecessary portion

Go to the lext top layer

make it active

Again rotate, transform, distort to get a shape of full R

Now go to next layer making it active

We are gonna to create T

Rotate 90 degree

Transform and distort

Next layer active

Transform and distort

:) we got our latter ART

Erase portions you do not like

Now merge all layers except the background and rename as ART

Go to layer->Layer style->Outer glow

Give the settings

We will get this

Want to decorate it more?

Ok, from our another stock image cut the flower and place it like this

Transform and distort if needed

Add some swirl design with swirl brushes like this:

Press Ctrl+T to transform it

Select warp from right click

drag to make the word arc

Ok, what next?

The background is boring?

Add some color to it

Add a new layer

Select a nice pearl brush

Select different colors and size and add again and again

Decrease the opacity of the layer to 20%

Merge all the layers except background

Go to Image->Adjustment->Hue/saturation

We will get this:


Ok, now crop the image

It is Done!!