Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Wax Text

Create a blank document, size depends on the size of your text, I made it 300*300px.

Black background. White foreground.

Type your text.

Use Filter --> Distort --> Polar Coordinates..

Select Rectangular to Polar.

Turn the cancas by 90� clockwise (Image --> Rotate Canvas --> 90� CW)

Now use the Wind Effect.

Filter --> Stylize --> Wind..

Use it once from the right and once from the left .

Your image will look something like this now:

You're going to use Polar Coordinates again.

Use Polar to Rectangular this time.

Turn the cancas by 90� UNclockwise (Image --> Rotate Canvas --> 90� UCW):

Select your text layer (CTRL-D).

Create a new channel in the channels tab.

Fill the selected area with white and use Gaussian Blur (Filter --> Blur --> Gaussian Blur) with a radius of about 4 pixels.

Return to the text layer and hit CTRL-D.

Go to Filter --> Render --> Lighting Effects..

Choose Alpha 1 as your Texture Channel and adjust the settings like seen below.

It will look something like this now:

Pick a color (CTRL-U).

There's your wax text.