Free Photoshop Tutorial - Waterlogged Logo in 5 Minutes
About this Photoshop Tutorial
This beginners level Photoshop tutorial is designed to show you a quick way to make a splash with your logo. The skills needed are very easy to grasp and with a few simple tweaks you can easily change the effect to work for anything wet or that melts, such as candle wax, liquid metal, melted plastic etc. So lets get down to work shall we?
Step 1 - Create your Text
First create a new document in Adobe Photoshop, for this example we are making it 600x250 in dimension. Now select a color in the shade of a good watery blue and pick out a font you personally like. In this case I'm going with Ariel Black since I want to keep it simple. Now select the type tool and type in your text. Once you have your text entered, choose select -> all from the menu, then layer -> align to selection -> vertical centers, layer -> align to selection -> horizontal centers. Finally select layer -> rasterize to turn the text into usable pixels. What you're left with will be similar to the image on the right.
Step 2 - Render Some Clouds
Now its time to add some texture to your Photoshop logo. Select layer -> new -> layer and put a checkmark on the "use previous layer to create a clipping mask" box. Now change the layer blending mode to Multiply. Once you've done that, set your foreground/background colors to black and white. Now select filter -> render -> clouds a few times until you get some results that are pleasing to they eye.
Step 3 - Finishing Touches in Adobe Photoshop
Once you've got the texture ready go ahead and select the original rasterized text layer and add some bevel and emboss with the following settings: Style - Inner Bevel, Technique - Smooth, Depth - 100%, Direction - Up, Size - 10 px and Soften - 0. Go ahead and add some drop shadow using your favorite settings while you're at it. Now grab a round paintbrush, Size - 6, Opacity & Flow 100% and start painting in some drops of water along the bottom of the logo using your original text color. Finally since the Multiply blending mode was making this logo a little less watery and more waxy I decided to go with using Luminosity for the blending mode. That's the beauty of using Adobe Photoshop's layers, you can make major changes in a heartbeat.