Text Practice

To do this project I started by opening a new layer in Ps. Next I added a gradient background. I chose to do a black and silvery one under metals. After this I used the text tool and used BOOM as my otamotopia word. I used Krungtherp font and 140pt font size to write the word. I decieded to make the word a bright pink color to contrast and pop against the dark background. With Text Warp I chose squeeze and kept it on horizontal. I made it bend +60 and moved it to the center of the page. Under the fx layer panel I chose inner shadow, outer glow, bevel and emboss, stroke and patter overlay. With pattern overlay I clicked on the word to get more options. I chose the second pattern and set the blend mode to normal, the opacity to 23%, and scale at 269%. I finished by saving the document back to Lr.