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Have you ever wanted to get your work done while overlooking a beautiful park, a breathtaking sunset, the calming sea, sitting in an aromatic cafe, or simply while on the train but going to somewhere you actually want to go (i.e. not to the office)?
It’s possible if you set up an effective mobile office.
I’m just your average guy — I don’t have any special privileges in life. But I’ve been able to make electronic music, write for web publications, and do business and freelance work all on my laptop during beautiful train rides, breezy ocean sunsets, and in cool city spots.
And you can as well.
Now, before you say, "Psh, it’s not possible because of [insert reason here]," yes, a mobile office isn’t possible for everyone. There are a couple of requirements for being able to work from a mobile office:
Are you able to do those two things? Yeah? Awesome. Keep reading, because your work life is about to get a whole lot better.
Here are some reasons why you would want a mobile office.
You won’t feel pent up in the same ol’ cubicle, day after day. All the while, you’re going to be getting the same work done but even quicker, because you have…
Having a mobile office frees you up to work whenever and wherever you want. Now, that doesn’t mean you can be lazy and not do any work when you don’t feel like it, just that you’re not bound to a 9 to 5, Monday to Friday schedule.
If you want to go on a hike on a Wednesday afternoon, you can do that.
On the flip side — and this is the main point — you can work when you want as well. Not a morning person? Sleep in late and work at night. Early riser? Get your work done before lunch time.
Studies show that people who work from home get work done more effectively — either faster, of higher quality, or of more quantity.
A Penn State study done by Dr. Ravi S. Gajendran and Dr. David A. Harrison suggests that telecommuting has a positive impact towards productivity because workers are able to control their schedule more.
"Our results show that telecommuting has an overall beneficial effect because the arrangement provides employees with more control over how they do their work," the researchers said. "Autonomy is a major factor in worker satisfaction and this rings true in our analysis. We found that telecommuters reported more job satisfaction, less motivation to leave the company, less stress, improved work-family balance, and higher performance ratings by supervisors."
With a mobile office, in addition to getting work done whenever you want, you can also do your work wherever you want. Have pockets of inspiration throughout the day? Bam, get some quality work done in a 30-minute chunk. Or not. It’s up to you, and the freedom you get from a mobile office offers you that sort of power towards dictating your work style and schedule.
With a mobile office, you can get a constant change of surroundings. New sights, new sounds, new smells — all of this breeds inspiration into your work.
It’s that stimulation of senses. Sameness is boring; change is exciting and energizing. Even if it’s only rotating between a few spots, that’s more stimulation (and thus inspiration) than if you stayed put all day, every day.
Okay, so are you convinced and excited to set up your mobile office and start using it? Awesome.
Here are five things that you need in order to have an effective mobile office:
This is a no-brainer, but I’m mentioning it just in case someone asks "how the heck am I gonna move my desktop computer from my office around with me?"
Your computer must be mobile. This may mean a compromise in terms of power and resources versus your desktop computer, but I think for most people, that’s a negligible tradeoff for the benefit of not being tied down to one spot.
This is easy to have because of the increasing number of free WiFi hotspots available around your city, state, and country.
Additionally, you can also get a mobile WiFi hotspot using a monthly data plan if you need to have your internet needs covered at all times.
You’ll need a solid pair of headphones for music while you work, for Skype calls, and for cancelling the noise while you work.
Earphones that come with your MP3 player are fine. Good headphones or earphones are even better. If you can afford it, noise-reducing in-ear earphones are best.
Why are earphones the best? Their noise reduction functionality means less distractions and being able to play music at a lower volume, which in turn protects your ears from constant exposure to high volumes of sound.
Earphones (left) are better than headphones (right) simply because they are more compact.
Why earphones over headphones? Smaller size for easier packing. Tossing in a tiny case is preferable. Trust me: stuffing big headphones into your bag gets old. Even if headphones are more comfortable, I can’t go back to those giants eating up so much of my backpack space.
Always look for software and web services to replace your hardware.
Basically, you want to lug around as few things as possible. That’ll increase the chances you’ll actually use your mobile office, since your setup will be very grab-n-go.
For example, instead of carrying a detachable hard drive (even though there are ultra-portable ones available in the market) use an online storage service like Dropbox.
A bag that looks good on you and that you wouldn’t mind having on you for large portions of the day is a good investment. This is the equivalent of having a super-comfortable chair for your stationary office.
Why does having a comfortable bag matter? Because if you dread something as simple as strapping on that heavy and uncomfortable bag, you won’t feel inspired to go out and use your mobile office.
Here are a few web services you can avail of to complement your mobile office.
Dropbox is great for file-sharing, collaborating, and automated backup of your work (no need to carry around external hard drives or USB thumb drives).
Freshbooks is wonderful for near-effortless electronic or paper invoices. No printing or postage needed on your end; they’ll handle all that for you if you need to send out a paper invoice.
A simple project management tool like Basecamp (or even a web-based office suite like Google Docs) can be valuable for collaboration, tracking milestones and deadlines, and file-sharing.
These three web services are all you really need to get most of your job done (80-20 principle and reductionism applied to software use and dependence).
The best part? All of these have free basic accounts, so you can start using them right now with no excuses or money up front.
Watch out for these three signs that will keep you tied down and not using your mobile office. These problems are all easily avoidable.
Replace your physical devices with online equivalents that work offline when internet access isn’t accessible. For example, using Dropbox will allow you to work on local files that will be synced automatically when you get online. Otherwise, you won’t feel like lugging around a bunch of stuff and will feel more inclined to stay put.
Though technically portable, big mobile devices can be cumbersome.
Reduce as much hardware as you can. For example, even if there are iPod nanos that are super tiny, it’s one additional thing you need to worry about (Did I remember to pack it? Did I lose my iPod nano? Where’s my iPod nano?). If you can, store your music in your laptop.
The longer your laptop’s battery life is, the less you have to worry about your laptop running out of juice. Extend your computer’s battery life however way you can. Either have battery life be the primary factor if you’re shopping for a new laptop, or consider buying an extra battery for your existing one.
If for whatever reason it’s not possible for you to have long-lasting battery life or if you want a backup to your battery, get an extension cord, an outlet multiplier, or an extension cord with multiple outlets at one end.
That way, you can reach any outlet no matter how far or filled up your location is. Too far away? An extension cord solves that problem. Outlets all used up? Ask someone if it’s okay for you to plug your multiplier/extension cord into one outlet.
Assuming your work arrangement allows you to work wherever you want: are you ready to take advantage of an effective mobile office? The benefits of having a mobile office are that you’ll have less of the suffocating "office time," more flexibility, and a constant supply of fresh inspiration.
To recap: In order to set up and start using your effective mobile office, you’ll need:
With these five ingredients, you’ll be well on your way to using your mobile office to do your work anytime and anywhere you want.
Now go out there and start using your mobile office.
Do you have a mobile office? What are some of the coolest, most inspiring places you’ve done great work?
Oleg Mokhov is the world’s most mobile electronic musician and co-founder of the royalty free music store Soundtrackster. He was born in Russia, but raised in the US. Follow him on Twitter as @olegmokhov.
WordPress is one of the best CMSs out there — if not the best (but of course, I’m biased because I’m a WordPress fanatic). It has loads of handy features that make site administration a breeze. WordPress is a publishing platform with a comment system, a GUI for creating, editing and managing posts and pages, handy built-in tools like the "Export" feature to back up your content, user roles and permissions, and more.
But how much of these features do we really use? Though already simple and user-friendly by default, we might want to customize the WordPress Admin interface to make it even simpler and more manageable for our clients, our co-authors, and ourselves.
Lately, WordPress has reached phenomenally high usage rates. There are over 25 million publishers[1] who use WordPress, making it a popular publishing platform. This means that its use has been extended outside of just a blogging platform (although it was certainly built for bloggers at the start) to other types of sites such as portfolios, business sites, image galleries, and even e-commerce sites.
Here is the problem, though. A robust publishing platform like WordPress has way more features than a regular user would ever need. Take the "Comments" panel for instance: Not everyone is going to need all the moderation privileges it has. Some sites might not even need commenting capabilities on their content. For example, a static informational site that doesn’t have a blog section might not want people to be able to comment on static pages like their About and Contact Us page.
The following image shows the default WordPress Dashboard — the first page you’ll see when you log into the Admin area. For tech-savvy folks and power users, it’s great. But imagine a person (such as a paying client of yours) who doesn’t need half of the things they see in this screen. All they want to do is publish a post. Maybe edit it if they make a mistake. That’s it. Nothing else.
Luckily, WordPress has a solution. A good one. A completely modular and reversible one, in case you want to quickly revert back to the way things were.
The solution is called Hooks, also known as "Filters" and "Actions". These guys allow us to "hook" into the WordPress core without modifying its files so that we can safely make changes without compromising the integrity of our installation.
We are going to use WordPress’s different actions and some of the available filters to remove features we do not need. We will also make some basic customization changes to brand our WordPress Admin area for our clients.
The snippets we will be using are mostly from my site, WP Snippets, a searchable repository of WordPress snippets (check it out when you have the time).
Let’s get started. The first thing you need to do is open up functions.php in your theme’s directory. If you don’t have a functions.php file, then just create one using your favorite text editor.
functions.php is the file where we will put all our code in. WordPress automatically checks this file, allowing you to customize just about everything before it’s rendered on the screen.
Sounds fuzzy? Here’s how it works. Try out the following code. Don’t worry; it will only affect the Admin area — so your site visitors won’t see it. However, I do want to advise you to experiment offline by installing WordPress on your computer (it’s easier than you think).
<php
function testing() {
echo 'Hello World!';
}
add_action( 'admin_head', 'testing' );
?>
The code should print ‘Hello World!’ inside the <head> tags in the Admin panel, which isn’t valid HTML code and therefore is printed out at the top of the web page.
The testing() function is our code that we want to run. To hook into WordPress core, we use the add_action() function. In this situation, we pass in two parameters. The first parameter is the name of the action you want to hook into ('admin_head'). The second parameter is the name of the function you want to run ('testing').
After you try this code snippet out, be sure to remove this code from your functions.php file (we’re done with it).
The first thing people will see when logging into the Admin area is the Dashboard. There, you’ll find widgets like "WordPress Blog," "Other WordPress News," and "Incoming Links". Not very interesting for the average user.
We will be using the wp_dashboard_setup action to remove them. In the function we want to execute, we will use the unset() function to remove the Dashboard widgets we don’t want to display. Then all we need to do is call add_action() using 'wp_dashboard_setup' as the first parameter as well as our function, named remove_dashboard_widgets, as the second parameter.
function remove_dashboard_widgets(){
global$wp_meta_boxes;
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']);
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_recent_comments']);
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary']);
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']);
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_right_now']);
unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']);
}
add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'remove_dashboard_widgets');
Check out the WordPress docs entry on removing dashboard widgets for more information.
WordPress comes with 12 standard widgets. Some of these default widgets include Calender (WP_Widget_Calendar), Search (WP_Widget_Search) and Recent Comments (WP_Widget_Recent_Comments).
You might want to disable the widgets that aren’t needed for your WordPress installation, again, to simplify and declutter your publishing platform. For example, you might not need the calendar, or maybe you’ve used a third-party search service such as Google Custom Search for your client’s WordPress installation.
For this one, we will be using widgets_init action. We will name our function simply as remove_some_wp_widgets. In our function, we will use WordPress’s unregister_widget() function using the names of the widgets we don’t want to use as the parameter.
Then, like before, we just call add_action. What you’ll see in this code snippet is a third parameter ('1'). The third parameter is the priority of the action. 10 is the default priority, meaning that if you don’t pass a value for this optional parameter, it will assume the value is 10. The lower the number, the higher the priority. So at 1, this is one of the top priority functions that will be called first no matter what its position is in functions.php.
function remove_some_wp_widgets(){
unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Calendar');
unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Search');
unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Recent_Comments');
}
add_action('widgets_init',remove_some_wp_widgets', 1);
Learn more about the Widgets API to see other cool stuff you can do with it.
You might want to remove menu items in the Admin panel to simplify the interface.
This is how you disable top-level menu items such as "Posts," "Media," "Appearance," and "Tools":
function remove_menu_items() {
global $menu;
$restricted = array(__('Links'), __('Comments'), __('Media'),
__('Plugins'), __('Tools'), __('Users'));
end ($menu);
while (prev($menu)){
$value = explode(' ',$menu[key($menu)][0]);
if(in_array($value[0] != NULL?$value[0]:"" , $restricted)){
unset($menu[key($menu)]);}
}
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_menu_items');
This is how you would remove submenu items under the top-level navigation (for example, the "Theme" link under "Appearance"):
function remove_submenus() {
global $submenu;
unset($submenu['index.php'][10]); // Removes 'Updates'.
unset($submenu['themes.php'][5]); // Removes 'Themes'.
unset($submenu['options-general.php'][15]); // Removes 'Writing'.
unset($submenu['options-general.php'][25]); // Removes 'Discussion'.
unset($submenu['edit.php'][16]); // Removes 'Tags'.
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'remove_submenus');
To find what the submenu names are, just go to wp-admin/menu.php and search for the item you want to disable.
The Editor link (a submenu item under "Appearance") is a bit tricky to disable. It doesn’t respond to the unset() function used above. Thus, if we wanted to remove it from the menu, we’d have to remove the action that displays it.
We will use the remove_action() function which simply removes the action from our theme.
function remove_editor_menu() {
remove_action('admin_menu', '_add_themes_utility_last', 101);
}
add_action('_admin_menu', 'remove_editor_menu', 1);
The "Add New" and "Edit" pages — the GUI for creating and editing posts and pages — is probably the most used feature in the Admin area. This is what you and/or your clients will be most exposed to. It serves us well if we try to clean these pages up by removing things that we do not need.
For example, do you use any Custom fields or do you use the Excerpts field? If not, just remove them from this view.
The following code snippet uses the remove_meta_box() function. The first parameter is the meta box’s HTML ID attribute you want to remove.
To find out the ID, just inspect the source code or use a tool like the Web Developer Toolbar to determine the ID attribute value of the section’s containing <div>. For example, the Custom Fields’ ID is #postcustom, so the parameter we use is 'postcustom'.
The second parameter refers to the page you want to remove the meta box from (it can be either 'post', 'page', or 'link').
We are going to remove the custom field, Trackbacks checkbox (because most of the time, we either enable or disable it in all of our posts), the comments status option, tags (if you don’t tag your posts with keywords, why have this input field?), and so on.
function customize_meta_boxes() {
/* Removes meta boxes from Posts */
remove_meta_box('postcustom','post','normal');
remove_meta_box('trackbacksdiv','post','normal');
remove_meta_box('commentstatusdiv','post','normal');
remove_meta_box('commentsdiv','post','normal');
remove_meta_box('tagsdiv-post_tag','post','normal');
remove_meta_box('postexcerpt','post','normal');
/* Removes meta boxes from pages */
remove_meta_box('postcustom','page','normal');
remove_meta_box('trackbacksdiv','page','normal');
remove_meta_box('commentstatusdiv','page','normal');
remove_meta_box('commentsdiv','page','normal');
}
add_action('admin_init','customize_meta_boxes');
WordPress’s Admin area often has tables that give you a quick overview of a listing of your content. If you wanted to remove columns from these views, you can.
This time, we will use the add_filter() WordPress function to add a filter instead of an action. A filter is simply a function that watches out for data being called from the database. When it sees something that we want to remove (or modify), it executes the filter first before rendering the data on the web page.
In the example below, we will remove the comments count from the Edit Pages and Edit Posts pages.
function custom_post_columns($defaults) {
unset($defaults['comments']);
return $defaults;
}
add_filter('manage_posts_columns', 'custom_post_columns');
function custom_pages_columns($defaults) {
unset($defaults['comments']);
return $defaults;
}
add_filter('manage_pages_columns', 'custom_pages_columns');
Sitting at the top bar of the Admin area is a dropdown called "favorites" that just lists commonly used Admin tasks such as "New Post," "Comments" (which takes you to the comment moderation page), and so on — for easy access.
If we wanted to remove items in this menu, we can easily do so. (Of course, we can also add stuff here too.) We can do this by adding another filter and unsetting the link, which is contained in a PHP array called $actions.
function custom_favorite_actions($actions) {
unset($actions['edit-comments.php']);
return $actions;
}
add_filter('favorite_actions', 'custom_favorite_actions');
Everything we have done so far is to disable stuff we don’t need. Now we’ll modify a few things.
The footer text in WordPress Admin contains links to the Documentation and to WordPress. Let’s change that.
This snippet just prints out some footer text.
function modify_footer_admin () {
echo 'Created by <a href="http://example.com">Filip</a>.';
echo 'Powered by<a href="http://WordPress.org">WordPress</a>.';
}
add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'modify_footer_admin');
This one’s an old trick, but a good one nonetheless. You can change the logo for the login page and the one in the top left located at the WordPress Admin area pages.
The subsequent code snippet just prints out the CSS (that will be printed inside the <head> tags of Admin pages) that hooks into the div of the logo; it has an ID of #header-logo in the admin pages and it is the h1 > a element for the login page.
For the url property of the style rules, we just feed it the image location of our logo. If the image is inside your WordPress theme’s directory, you can simply use the get_bloginfo('template_directory') template tag to get the relative path to it, followed by the location of the images directory (in this case, it’s called "images") and then the file name of your image (in this case, admin_logo.png and login_logo.png).
function custom_logo() {
echo '<style type="text/css">
#header-logo { background-image: url('.get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/admin_logo.png) !important; }
</style>';
}
add_action('admin_head', 'custom_logo');
function custom_login_logo() {
echo '<style type="text/css">
h1 a { background-image:url('.get_bloginfo('template_directory').'/images/login_logo.png) !important; }
</style>';
}
add_action('login_head', 'custom_login_logo');
There’s no guarantee that your theme will support the next version of WordPress, so to prevent your clients from updating their website, you can ask WordPress to hide this notification.
First, I have to say that this isn’t advisable. WordPress core developers put this notification there for a huge reason: Security updates. But if you must remove it (or modify it), all you have to do is to add a filter for it.
add_filter( 'pre_site_transient_update_core', create_function( '$a', "return null;" ) );
If you wanted to customize the appearance of the WYSIWYG editor (maybe to match the theme of your site), you can create a custom stylesheet for it (you can call it something like editor-style.css) and then study the HTML markup to see how you can hook into the classes and IDs of the editor. Then to add your custom stylesheet, you can use the add_editor_style() function.
add_editor_style('css/editor-style.css');
The reason why you’d want to do this instead of modifying the global.css stylesheet that comes with WordPress is ease of updating the core and modularity. If there’s one major theme to take away in this guide, it’s that you should never modify WordPress core files — there are plenty of ways to hook into them.
Using these snippets of code, you can customize and reduce the Admin area’s features down to just the essentials, permitting us to benefit from the advantages of minimalism and reductionism principles in our work.
This is what I’ve been doing, and my clients love that all the clutter that they don’t need isn’t there.
Here’s a final image of my result (for the "Add New Post" page):
Now it’s your turn to talk. Do you customize WordPress in any way for your customers, and if so, how? The depth of WordPress is incredible, and I would love to see more tips and tricks about how to make it even simpler — share your tips and tricks in the comments.
Filip Stefansson is a 20-year-old web developer from Sweden who is a WordPress fanatic. He runs WP Snippets and Pixby. You can connect with Filip via Twitter.
One of the factors we need to consider in designing our websites is the color we choose. Colors connote different psychological meanings and allow you to set a particular mood mood and leave an impact on web users. Blue is one of the most commonly used colors in web design because it gives a more clean and brighter look to your website. This color is often attributed as being important, strong and intelligent.
We handpicked 35 Blue Websites for Web Design Inspiration to help you generate ideas for creating cool and refreshing website designs. Got a blue website you think should be included in this collection? Share it with our readers by leaving a comment on this post!
Traditional business cards have sharp corners which is less attractive these days. If you want to stand out from the pile of plain and boring cards, it’s best to design unique and creative rounded corner business cards. This card style easily grabs attention, that’s why it’s very popular in the world of graphic design and business today. Rounded corners enhance the look of any business card and give a stylish flair to it.
If you are planning to create your own personalized business card, check out this collection of 40 Rounded Corner Business Cards to inspire your design!
In this Photoshop tutorial we will show you how to create nice unique photo effect from sketch and your photo. We will use many tools in Photoshop and also you will need some skills in drawing as to create this effect you will need to draw sketch. Also in this tutorial you will be able to learn the Photoshop technique how to use sketch and combine it with a real picture, as a result you will get a very unique and fantastic effect. So lets start to learn.
Open a new document with (w:900px and h:1355px), and white background.
Now open your main image, in this case I used a image of a boy found in Crestock.com. Name this layer "Boy". Now use the tool of your choice to extract the background photo, I used the Pen tool (press P) and created a layer mask to extract the image.When you finish tracing the path around the image click the right mouse button and choose make selection.then in the layers palette click on the Add layer mask button to extract the image.
Now use a simple superimposition technique to draw some elements in the composition. Print a copy of the image and use as a base to add some elements to it. Follow the examples of the images below to get an idea of how to do this. There is no rule in this stage, just follow your imagination.
When you are satisfied with the sketches, scan the sketches and open in Photoshop. Position the sketches above "Boy" layer and use Select -> Color range with fuzziness 120 and hit ok to select the black areas of the sketch. If everything is right you have something like this image. Now name this layer sketch.
I used this texture of metal to form the background. You can download this texture here or you can get it by download Psd file of this tutorial below. Open the metal texture an place above background layer, name this layer "Texture". Change the blend mode layer to Multiply and opacity to 30%. Use Burn tool (press O) to burn some areas in our texture.
Create a new layer below the layer "Boy". Download some water paint brushes and splatter brushes from Deviantart. Use Eyedropper tool (press I), to get a color swatch of the clothing image. Pick a color sample of the shirt, pants and arms. Use different opacities and create a new layer for each color. Then press Ctrl+G and group all brush color tighter, name this group "Body brushes".
Return the "Boy" layer and click the Layer mask to hide some areas of the image. This process will integrate the brush and the sketches in the image. Choose a water paint or splatter brush with black color and use different opacity, start paint over the mask to hide some areas.
Create a new layer and name "Shadows". Select the Lasso tool (press L) and adjust the feather to 30px. Create a shape on the floor to simulate a shadow. Right click, select Fill to fill with black color.
Then go to Filter -> Blur -> Motion blur (angle 0, distance 999px) and reduce the layer opacity to 40%.
Copy this layer press Ctrl+J and reduce opacity to 30%. In the layers pallet select all shadows layer together and press Ctrl+G to group this layers.
Create a new layer, name this layer "Line circles". Select Elliptical marquee tool (press M), hold shift key and draw a perfect circle, then go to Edit -> Stroke: 3px black to color and hit ok.With selection active go to Select -> Transform selection and reduce the size of the circle, use 1px black color this time. Put this layer above "Texture" layer.
Add a layer mask ( click in the layer mask button ) in the layers pallet and hide some areas to create a nice effect. Change color to black and use water paint brushes or splatter brushes with black color and low opacity to hide some areas.
Create another layer and name it "Black bars". Select Rectangular marquee tool (press M), and draw some black bars like the image bellow.
Press Ctrl+T and rotate 45 degrees. One more time press layer mask icon in the layers pallet, select color black and use Brush tool to hide some areas.
When you finish reduce layer opacity to 20% or 10%. Then group (press G) "Line circles" and "Black bars" layers together, name this group "Circle effects".
Almost done. Create a new layer and call this layer "Black lines". Use Pen tool (press P) and create angles and intersecting lines.
Open brush panel and adjust spacing to 425%, select a hard round brush with black color and 1px, press P to Pen tool right click and choose Stroke path without simulate pressure and hit ok.
Repeat this process in other areas, make some circles too, try make things like angles. Make straight lines and dotted lines on separate layers. Finish this step masking or erase some areas in this lines. Group all black lines layers together.
If you want to add a boom box in the composition, follow the steps that were shown above, repeat steps 2 through 6.
Last step. Select Eyedropper tool (press I), take a sample of skin color and paint around the eyes. Use low opacity to paint.
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I am going to share with you how to make a caramel text effect by using some layer styles. First, find some suitable background to demonstrate our text effect on it.
Create a new document with size of 1000 x 500 pixels with default settings (RGB, 72 dpi, white background).
I am going to use a image to create caramel effect. I found one good image at stock.xchange for this tutorial. Open it and go to Image > Image Size and change width to 1000 px. After that copy it to our document as new layer (i named this layer “Caramel effect”).
Create a new layer called “Text” and select the Horizontal Type Tool (T) with these settings: Arial, Black, 230 px, Smooth. Write your text on the middle of canvas, for example “Photoshop” in whatever color you want.
We are now going to create caramel text effect. First set up Fill to 0% for this text layer.
Go to Layer > Layer Style and apply the following layer styles to the text layer:
After applying all these Blending Options we should get something like my image below:
Now I would like to increase contrast on the text. For this duplicate text layer (Ctrl+J) and then create new layer named “Filter”. Merge both layers (new text layer and “Filter” layer) to get all text effects in one layer.
After that apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next presets:
Change layer mode to Soft Light and Opacity to 50%.
This tutorial is now complete. Hope you liked it!
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