The Harry Potter Effect in Photoshop

Posted on by Roofi Sardar 

 

Note: This text tutorial photoshop has been carried out in Adobe Photoshop CS5. This text tutorial photoshop is confined to explaining the effects that are visible in the “Harry Potter” text. You may search for the Harry Potter Font on Google and download it for use in this tutorial.
1)  Open a new document with the following settings:

2)  Set the Foreground and Background color as dark and light blue, respectively.
3)  Select the Gradient tool. Drag your cursor vertically downwards on the image to form the background.

4)  Open a new layer and with your Gradient tool still selected, click on Reverse. On the document, drag your cursor vertically downwards to form another background.

5)  Set the Foreground and Background color as black and white, respectively.
6)  Open a new layer and select the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Draw a rectangle in the center of the image. Go to Filter > Render > Clouds.

7)  Your rectangle should now be filled with clouds. Now press (CTRL+T) and expand the selection to the top, right, and left edge of the document; make sure you do this by dragging the corresponding vertices of the transformation box.
8)  Change the Blend Mode of the current layer from Normal to Screen.

9)  Now click Add Vector Mask (If you are using an older version of Photoshop, this function may read as Add Layer Mask. No worries, they both work the same).

10)  Set the Foreground and Background color as black and white, respectively. Select the Gradient tool.
11)  Now as you can observe, the clouds and the lower portion of the document appear to be two different images. We are now going to make the clouds blend into the image. To do this, use the Gradient tool to draw a vertical line stretching out from the lower portion of the document and onto the clouds. This should give you a result that suggests that the clouds are starting to blend in. If however, you do not acheive the desired results in the first attempt, you may keep trying until you do.

12)  Select the three layers you created and Merge them (CTRL+E).
13)  Select the Text tool and type in “Harry Potter” with the following settings:

14)  Open Layer style and make the following changes:



15)  Go to Edit >Transform > Skew. Slightly raise the image by dragging the middle vertice of the left edge of the transformation box. This results in “Harry” being slightly above “Potter”.
Final Result:

 
Voila.