Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make Shiny Text and Reflect it on a Dark Surface 

So easy and clear to follow, thank you

Beautiful. I think I'll make this year's Christmas cards like that. Thank you!

THANKS! I've been wanting to create my own channel art, and I wanted shiny, reflective letters. I used purple instead of white, though. I really, REALLY appreciate you going step by step, and even highlighting where you clicked. So. Many. People. can learn from you how to create a "how to" video. Not once was I frustrated watching this, I followed it exactly, and it worked perfect. THANK YOU!!

Superb explanation

This tutorial is the best i have ever seen. Your speed is perfect. you were actually too fast for me but i like that. Id rather you be too quick and to the point so i have to keep stopping rather than listening to a bunch of long winded non sense. Very much appreciated and i have subscribed. Keep up the great work!

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very very nice explanation with keyboard symbols and zooming.Thank so much.

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2021 but still useful, tks you ! )

Spettacolare!!!! Uno dei video più belli..più chiari...e più dettagliati che si possano trovare in rete. Grazie per questo tutorial ...ma soprattutto grazie per tutti gli altri video!!!

Man, Marty..I'm amazed at how remarkable this looks and how well you explain it. Great tutorial!

Thanks a lot! Helped me out with a school project.

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I made one of these for my friend and really loved it:)

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muy buena técnica; la verdad es que me ha encantado la forma de como lograr este efecto.

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So simple, yet such an amazing outcome...Thanks once again for a splendid tutorial, Marty

Thank you so much, it was very helpful.

Very well explained. Thank you.

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Wow! I love this. I just started Design school....this was a great video! New Subscriber! Going to follow along with your instructions (again) and replicate this....thanks so much for sharing it. XO

wonderful tutorial

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Excelente tutorial, explicado de una forma fácil de entender, aprecio mucho que sea solo de 8 minutos, otros tardan hasta 20 minutos en darte la solución....Gracias, gracias, gracias Blue Lighting TV Photoshop.....!!!!

Thank you Soo much I like your explain

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Awesome video! Nice work.

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Hello Marty! your this tutorial was awesome and easy but I have a lot of confusion that how layer masks works? Please can you also make a tutorial about how layer masks works ?

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You are the best PS educator there is BUT the font you used is a commercial font. Surely there are free fonts that would work just as well?

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great effect!

tyvm for taking the time to help us all learn. nice video. I love your channel! ;)

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Nice. Thanx

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Marty, your tutorials are amazing! Thank you for sharing your expertise. I was wondering if you are familiar with making DVD menus? I know how to work with them on the premiere side of things but I tried making my own in Photoshop by copying some templates I had. It was very confusing... with so many layers on top of each other and trying to know the symbols to work in premiere. Anyway, I don't know if that's really in your lane but if you do know how, I think that would be a great video. Thanks!

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When I flip Vertical, it said I could not use the brush tool because the pixels in a group cannot be without merging the group. What do I do now? Please help!

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Hello Marty, Do you have a tutorial of reflections where the subject is not resting on an even level plane? For instance, I want to make a realistic reflection of a person who is sitting on the ground, but the legs, hands and butt are all at different touch points. I would like for the reflection to fade away, just as you shown here, but it does not look right, because the UN-leveled body parts. Thanks in advance Help me Marty, you're my only only hope! :)

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I'm also following along on cs5 and when I brush across the bottom its showing up white it will not let me brush across it when I have the clipping mask active I see through the comments that some of us are having the same problem. Other then that great video I just wish I knew what to do so I can fix it

Hi am Joe nice to meet you and nice work too... But i want to ask you some more question in private...

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AGAIN THE BEST HELP OUT THEIR.

How can you have the reflected text spell a different word? If you wanted the text on top to spell out an English word and the reflected word to be the same word in, say, French, how would this be done?

how do I fade out the bottom on the reflection? please help.

Nice video man!! One question how can k brighten my test i make thumbnails and i need to make my text brighter any ideas?

I have an Question i must of miss something when im at the point of shading out some of the spotlight its not doing it what is it im doing wrong please help thanks a lot

Do you know if I could download this font for free? I am doing a graphic design project.

Через что обрабатываете видео?Что за программа, подскажите пожалуйста.

Hi Marty. Is it possible to change the text without doing the whole procedure all over again?

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hey marty my brush tool doesn't brush

Does it have to be Black and White to make a reflection on the text?

I don't have Blur on my photoshop?

why wont my brush tool work??

when i press alt+delete after the selection with elliptical marque tool it appears black, not white! what can i do to fix this?

Following along with CS5 on a Macbook Pro, when I get to the step to brush along the bottom on the spotlight mask I cannot access a brush. What am I doing wrong?

how do you do the reflections with p

How do u change the tekst after u finished?? plz i need an response!!

Excellent tutorial, but BEWARE of downloading the font. I downloaded it to my Mac and all my fonts disappeared. Deleted all reference files to the downloaded font and my regular fonts reappeared. Not sure if it's a virus, but it was a scary experience! Otherwise excellent work!

which version?