Text Tutorial

To begin creating this, I opened a layer in Photoshop. I added a gradient to the background that is light blue at the top and fades into white at the bottom. Then I used the text tool to write the word, "Whoosh." The font size is 120 pt and the color is kind of a raspberry, pinkish-red. After that I clicked on the button at the top called text warp. I chose twist because I thought it looked best for the sound effect. The bend is at 73% and the horizontal distortion is at 24%. Then I moved the word to the middle of the screen. I went to bevel and emboss to increase the depth in the up direction to 100%. I also changed the contour range to 69%. Next I went to stroke and outlined the word in a darker color. In drop shadow, I increased distance to 164 px, spread to 23%, and size to 10 px. I also went to inner shadow and increased distance to 5 px and size to 13px. Last I went to inner glow, and set the opacity to 75% and increased size to 5 px.