Tutorial Challenge: Timeless by Nemesis Tutorials (Text, Animated) - Treehouse Treasures

Timeless

I found this tutorial through the Wayback Machine, and all the screenshots seem to be visible at this time. The download links for the diamond accent and the font are working.

I liked this tutorial because it uses the Effects/Texture Effects/Tiles filter. I don't see this filter used often, so it's nice to see a way in which it can be used.

The Inner Bevel settings used in the tutorial are hardly noticeable when applied to black text, so I applied a different Inner Bevel setting to add dimension to the black text.

The bevel settings that I used are from my Melted Candle Text Tut; click here to see. Even with the different bevel settings, I hardly noticed the bevel (maybe it's my monitor settings). So I applied Eye Candy 4000 Glass filter. The Eye Candy settings that I used are also from the Melted Candle Tutorial and you can see those here. If you use the glass settings, first reset all tab settings to the factory defaults and then apply the glass settings. If you apply the bevel twice, it's much more noticeable.

Since I like color, I added a New Raster Layer above the glassy black text layer and filled the selection with #0B3D91. I applied the same bevel and glass settings to this layer. Then I added another New Raster Layer and filled the selection with #C00000 and set the Blend Mode to Soft Light. I added another New Raster Layer above this layer, filled it #404040 and applied the Tiles filter as in the tutorial. I lowered the opacity of this layer to 50. I made the glassy black text layer active and added a Drop Shadow (3,1,25,3,#404040).

I chose size 55 for my text so I only resized the diamond accent tube by 85% Bicubic (the bicubic setting adds some sharpness to the image when resizing). After resizing the diamond accent I applied Sharpen.

For the animation, I changed the frames per second to 5fps (this gave me 5 frames of animation rather than 7). Then I changed the Display Time of the animation to 27.

I made another tag with some slight variations.

Instead of setting the Blend Mode to Soft Light for the #C00000 layer, I set it to Difference and lowered the opacity to 50. It creates a sort of two-tone effect.

For the diamond accent, I sharpened twice after resizing. I applied the diamond accent to each letter of the text. For the letters B and R, I deleted the largest size diamond then moved the other bits into position. All the other steps and settings are the same as described above.