Photoshop Text Effects

All these settings are applied under Blending Options.
(Right click on your text layer and go to Blending Options)

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Use the settings below to create the effect above.

Font Used: Bold

Drop Shadow Opacity – – 100% Distance – – 6px Size – – 10px

Stroke Size – – 3px Color – – White

Color Overlay/Gradient Overlay
You can select either a Color Overlay or an Gradient Overlay depending on what you want.

I selected Gradient Overlay with:
Scale – – 150%
Gradient Colors – – #007fe1 to #0d0a7d

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Use the settings below to create the effect above.

Font Used: Tycho

Gradient Overlay Scale – – 150% Gradient Colors – – #087a8e to #000000

Stroke Size – – 3px Color – – White

Once you created your text layer. Duplicate the layer by right clicking on it and selecting Duplicate layer. You should have 2 layers now. Apply the following 2 filters to the original layer (The original layer is the one that doesn’t have COPY next to it)

Fliter -> Motion Blur(Hit OK on the POP-UP) Distance – – 50px

Fliter -> Radial Blur Amount – – 10 Blur Method – – Spin Quality – – Best

I changed the Gradient Colors on my Blurred layer to:
Gradient Colors – – #000000 to #0f479a