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Photoshop: font water effect - how to

  • Oct 18, 2025
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Using layer styles you can create in Photoshop a font with water effect. We will show you how this works. For our example, we will use a simple gradient background. Alternatively, you can take a beach or under - water photo.

Font water effect in Photoshop create

  1. Create a new image in Photoshop, then set the foreground color to the value "#0a10ff" and for the background color "#3ed3d5".
  2. Call now with [G], the gradient tool and drag with the mouse a line from the top to the bottom of the image. Photoshop fills the image with a color gradient from dark blue to turquoise.
  3. You write your Text in the image. It is best to use a curved font. So the water effect looks more realistic.
  4. Then select in the menu "layer | rasterize | Text". If you want to, you can paint with the pencil tool to add a few drops of water, or the Text perspective in order to make it a little more interesting.
  5. In order to create the water effect, now select "layer | style | drop shadow".
  6. In the following Dialog, the opacity to "75 %" and the angle to "120" degrees.
  7. As a blend mode, select "Multiply". In the case of the three sliders, you choose the distance, "5", Overfill of "0" and size "10".
  8. Now click on "inner shadow" and change the following values: opacity of "100 %", size "5".
  9. It continues with "bevel and emboss". There, select "style | bevel the inside", "technology | chisel Hard", and as the depth of the value "381%".
  10. It follows a size "5" and soft 11 "draw".
  11. Under shading, set the light mode "Negative multiply" and an opacity of "100%".
  12. In deep mode, select "Color Dodge" and opacity to "50 %".
  13. Finally, you click on "blending options: default" and drag the slider in the "area" is set to "0". The color of the Text Left of the water effect.
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