Gel Type Tutorial

Step 1: Choose your font, size and color.
Step 2: Type your word
Step 3: In your layers palette, apple and your type layer to put the marching ants around the text. Create a new layer.
Step 4: Go under the Select menu, under modify, and choose Contract. When the Contract dialing appears, enter 2 pixels, and click Ok, then press Option and Delete to fill your contracted selected.
Step 5: Deselect by pressing Apple D, Duplicate this layer by dragging it to the new layer icon. Go under the filter menu, under Blur and choose Gaussian Blur. When the dialog box appears, enter 3 pixels, and and click Ok.
Step 6: Choose Bevel and Emboss from the layers styles pop-up menu of the bottom of the layers palette.
->Style-Emboss
->Depth-300
->Size-12
->Highlight Opacity-100%
->Shadow Mute- Color Dodge
->Black Color swath-white click Ok
Step 7: In the layers palette click on the eye icon beside the back round layer to hide it. Then choose Merge Visible from the palettes drop menu. Choose Drop Shadow from the styles menu and click Ok. Click on background to reveal it.