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Electric Surround Text
Electric Surround 80x80 Learn how to wrap your text with electric effect!

Step 1: Firstly, create a new document with these settings:

Electric Surround 1a

 Step 2: Fill your document with black. We will do this by pressing D, X to reset your colors and press Ctrl-Backspace to fill your document with black. Use the Horizontal Type Tool(T) and type something you want (with white text color)

Electric Surround 1

Step 3: Duplicate your "Style" layer by pressing Ctrl-J (or right click on "Style" Layer and choose Duplicate Layer). Go to Filter > Stylize > Wind and choose "From the right" option

2011ElectricSurround2

 Step 4: Press Ctrl-F twice to repeat this effect. Now we should hide the original "Style" layer to see our effects by clicking on its "eye" icon

 Electric Surround 2b

 Step 5: Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the radius of 2.0 pixels

Electric Surround 3

 Step 6: Now we will merge this layer with the background. Press Ctrl and left click on the Background layer to select it, press Ctrl-E to merge these two layers

Electric Surround 4

 After this step, your Layers tab will look similar to this

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 Step 7: Go to Filter > Stylize > Solarize. Next, go to Images > Adjustments > Auto Levels to make your text brighter

Electric Surround 6

 Step 8: Now we will make the original "Style" layer appear again by clicking on its "eye" icon. Press Ctrl-U to open up the Hue/Saturation dialog box (we do this on the background layer, not original "Style" layer). Make sure to tick on the Colorize check box and use these settings:

Electric Surround 7

 Now our image is similar to this

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 Step 9: Double click on "Style" layer to open up the Layer Style dialog box. We will use Bevel and Emboss, Color Overlay and Stroke effects with these settings:

    + Bevel and Emboss: 

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    + Color Overlay:

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    + Stroke:

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 Finished! And here is the final result:

Electric Surround 12

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Comments
helpfull hand 12-22-2007
Not really electric, more something smooth
mashy 02-14-2008
perfect worked out really well :lol: thanks
Anonymous 03-04-2008
i got bored with it really quickly
sorry but i give u a 2 outa 10
reynante 03-04-2008
nice
hmmm.... 05-14-2008
very nice effect
lahu 06-03-2008
very useful and fancy effect
chhaya 07-05-2008
its very nice effect its rocking
nick 08-28-2008
the best
alpha phi omega 09-20-2008
that good
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