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Make text shadow float in water using Photoshop
A very useful Photoshop tutorial where we create a shadow of a text and make it appear like it's floating in the water.
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Choose the Horizontal Type Tool (T form a keyboard shorcut).
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Click the document and enter some text.
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Press Ctrl (Command in MacOS) + T and stretch the text a bit.
Press Enter to confirm.
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In the menu click Layer, Layer Style and choose Drop Shadow...
Set the Distance to about 25 px and click OK.
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Select the Background layer (see picture).
Press Ctrl (Command in MacOS) + A, to select the whole layer.
Press Ctrl (Command on MacOS) + C, to copy selection.
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Click the Channels tab and Create a new channel (see picture).
If you can't find Channel tab, click Window in the menu and choose Channels.
It will all become black, but that is completely normal.
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Press Ctrl (Command in MacOS) + V, to paste the selection.
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In the menu click Filter, Blur and choose Gaussian Blur...
Set Radius to 2 pixels and click OK.
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Press Ctrl (Command in MacOS) + L, to open Levels settings now drag the white and black slider a bit to the middle grey slider (see picture).
Click OK.
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In Channels tab, right-click Alpha 1 channel and choose Duplicate Channel...
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In the Duplicate Channel window, set Document to New and enter a name (whatever you want).
Click OK.
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Photoshop will create a new document with your background.
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In the menu click File and choose Save As...
Enter a name for the Photoshop file and click Save.
Remember where you saved it!
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No go back to your original document.
Select the text layer layer.
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In the menu click Layer, Layer Style and choose Create Layer.
Photoshop will split the layer into a text layer and shadow layer.
Now select the Drop Shadow layer (see picture).
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In the menu click Filter, Distort and choose Displace...
Choose the similar settings as I did and click OK.
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Now find the Photoshop document you saved (Step 14) select it and click OK.
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And like by some kind of magic, Photoshop should fit the shadow to the waves in the water.
You are done, good job!
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This is how the shadow layer looks like after we applied the Displace filter.
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And this is how the shadow layer looked like before we applied the Displace filter.
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