Hello,
Can someone help me recreate this text effect?
http://home.no/barbershop/dvd.png
Here’s my version:
http://home.no/barbershop/dvd2.png
http://home.no/barbershop/dvd3.png
The trained eye can probably see that the original version looks much better. Why is that? Is there something obvious I’m doing wrong, or could this text have been made using a different technique?
(whether I use Flash or Photoshop shouldn’t matter as their text effects are pretty much identical?)
Many thanks!
Also could you set my URLs back to the tinyurl ones, I’d rather keep my real URLs private and unsearchable…
I don’t think it is. I’m going to test this myself now. Will get back asap.
We do not allow tiny URLs in this forum as per the forum guidelines. Sorry.
I can remove them for you, however, and you reattach them to a later post?
Indeed, the letterpress effect would be the right word!
In Flash’s effects I can choose to blur the shade as well as rotate its angle so it’d become equivalent to 1px up/down along x and y, but still something ain’t right.
Could it be 3D renderings? The people who made this text run one of Europe’s largest websites and are experts at 3D…
Is it the letterpress effect you’re trying to make better?
If so, I’d play around with the blue text. You could add a Gaussian blur to it, experiment with text treatment (crisp, sharp, strong, etc.).
For a better letterpress effect, you can also create another dark blue text layer underneath the other two and push it 1px along the x-axis and 1px down the y-axis.
It’s basically just playing around with these settings a bit that should give you the effect you’re looking to do.
I hadn’t even thought of changing the shade!
Glad you sorted it out! 
:tup:
There should just be two steps:
Duplicate white text and make it the color of the background (the dark blue shadow effect you want) and drag that layer underneath your white text layer.
Push that blue layer by 1 or 2 pixels up the y-axis.
The shade you see between the dark blue shadow and the white text seems more like it comes from the font itself.
Thanks for the reply kohoutek but in essence that is no different from what I’ve done. I mean, if you remove the light shade. About the light shade though, yeah you could be right - when I remove it, I don’t see much difference besides the white becoming whiter, just like in the original. But still there’s something I can’t quite put my finger on here…
yup, i definitely wanna lick this one 
damn… just realized my text wasn’t fully white it was f7f7f7… making it fully white really brightened things up… and i’m definitely a lot closer. i think i’m there actually…
thank you so much for your help kohoutek it’s rare to find souls that care so much about others…
thank you thank you thank you
Nah it’s okay… I just have a habit of clearing my traces. Thanks though!
But yeah as for the text, I sense the two layers are more connected somehow as opposed to just being one layer on top of the other…
I’ve played with some bevel effects too but that’s definitely not it I think…
When I look at the original I get that feeling (like when you see good design / hear good music) that I want to lick it… I dont get that feeling with my version…
The font is Gill Sans…