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Halo
Text Effect in Photoshop®
Part One |
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Here's a quick and easy halo text effect you can create
with Photoshop. I used Photoshop version 5.5 for this
example.
![](images/halo14.gif)
1. Click File > New to make a new file. In
the dialog, enter the number of pixels for the width
and height. This example will be for screen displays
so I chose a resolution of 72 ppi. Click "OK"
when done.
![](images/halo01.gif)
2. Select the Type tool
and click once in the document window.
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3. Enter the desired text in the dialog box. For this
tutorial I chose 72 point Zapf Chancery Medium Italic.
Click "OK" when done.
![](images/halo03.gif)
4. Depending on the font and text chosen, the document
window should look something like the example below.
![](images/halo04.gif)
5. In the Layers palette, Cmd-Click (Mac®) or Ctrl-Click
(Windows®) on the text layer to make a selection
in the shape of the text. The mouse pointer will change
to a pointing hand with a square selection marquee (circled
below left). After doing this, the document window will
show a selection marquee in the shape of the text (below
right).
Click
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