1: Open up a fresh document 500500 pixels, and fill the background white.

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Grab the Horizontal type tool. Select a cool font and type out the text in big letters. I will be using legittutorials in all caps. You can choose whatever font, but i recommend something thick. Rotate the text 45 degrees just for fun.

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2: Now were gonna apply a simple 3d effect. Rasterize the text layer and duplicate. Now move the duplicate down and right 1 pixels. Repeat this 6 times, then merge all the duplicates together and lower the opacity to 50%.

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Make a selection of the original text layer (ctrl+click), and expand the selection by 1 pixel (select>modify>expand). Delete this selection from the duplicates.

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3: Create a new layer, and grab the paint bucket tool. Now set foreground color to something vibrant.

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Create a box covering most of the first letter.

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Now grab another bring color and make a box covering another section. Keep doing this till the whole text is covered.

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4: Make a duplicate of the colors layer, and make it invisible. Now get a selection of the original text layer, select the inverse, and delete that selection from the visible text layer.

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Now do the same for the 3d layer, lower the opacity to 50%, and delete the 2 original text layers.

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5: Apply Inner Shadow, on the text layer, with the following settings:

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Create a new layer, and grab the pen tool. With your foreground color set to white, make a swively white shape covering the top have of the text.

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Set the mode to overlay, the opacity to 15%, and you done! Heres how mine turned out.

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