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This is a very tutorial for making colourful text, ideal for any kids decoration or web sites. we will be making this..



So, start off my creating a new canvas, 500*400, and fill it with the white color.

Using the "Fertigo" font, type any word you like, and choose the "bold" text.



Go to Layer Styles panel, and load the following settings..
Gradient from dark #5f001f to light bordo - #8e082c







and this is what we got so far..



Now to the more complicated part.

Make a new layer.
Select a brush, hard round, approximately 35px wide, but this fully depends on how thin is your font and how close are your letters.

Select any colour (preferably bright) and simple doodle over the letter.



Using the same layer, chose other bright colours and go over each and every letter like this.

When you have finished, (and this is very important) choose the "screen" mode for this layer



and it would mean your letters look cute like this..


if you don't like the idea of having a shadow coloured as well, i recommend to load a selection on the letters (by clicking on the layer with letters in your layers window) then go to Select >> Inverse and (make sure the doodle layer is selected) -- press Delete.

If you are not bothered with the shadow or not planning to put any background underneath it, just skip this step.

Next, as explained above, click on the letters layer, to load the selection, and then go to Select >> Modify >> Contract.



Contract the selection by 2 pixels. Press Ok.

Then chose Rectangular Marquee tool, and when the "substruct from selection" mode is chosen, cut the lower part of the selection..



Don't de-select yet.

Make a new layer, select the gradient tool from white to trasperant, and make a light gradient from about 10 pixels above the letters to around 5 pixels after the end of the selection.

This is what we got so far..



That's it, your text is ready! If you want to create a strips background like I did in the first image, simply make a copy of this whole canvas and everything that is on it, flatten it and using the horizontal single row marquee tool located somewhere in the middle, press Ctrl + T to "stretch" the line and then press Enter. Grag this bg layer under the gloss, letters and doodle layer...



In this case, you cannot skip the step I posted previously about deleting the ramaisn of the coloured layer. Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and please feel free to download the FREE psd file..