Step 1

Make a new document (500px x 500px) and fill it in with a Sunburst style gradient (#1f2b2b – #3b585e). Add some noise (Gaussian, 7%).

Step 2

Make a selection like this one:

Fill it in with this gradient:

And set the blending mode to overlay.

Step 3

Add some text. I am choosing the letter “S”, font “Arial”, and size “400px”. For color, I am using this gradient I made.

Center it (of course):

Step 4

Important: Save the selection to the alpha channel before you deselect!

Invert the current selection (of the letter) and apply a drop shadow with the following settings (be sure to select “Shadow on New Layer”):

Drag the shadow layer above the text layer, or else you won’t see it. Now, do another drop shadow with with these settings:

Drag this shadow layer above all other layers.

Click image to see full layer list

Step 5

Make a new layer above the text layer (and under all the shadow ones) and load up the selection from the alpha channel. Then fill it in with the gradient we used for the background (same style also, Sunburst). Set the blending style to Burn. This gives it that nice deep pill style effect.

Step 6

Now make a new layer and place it just above the background layers (under the text layer, above the background/background gloss layers) and load up your selection again. Expand the selection by 5 pixels (Selections > Modify > Expand) and fill it in with #37636f.

Step 7

Now for a real trick I discovered by accident (clicked the wrong thing). Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel. This is a effect highly overused, but used right, can give you a really cool effect. Use these settings:

Looks much better. Now I want to add a gloss to this. If you still have it selected, de-select a bottom portion with the Ellipse Selection tool (if it’s not selected, which is what I had, just load it up from the alpha channel and expand the selection by 5 pixels) and fill it in with a White-to-Transparent gradient and lower the opacity.

Great Scott! Your done! Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and learned from it! Here is my layers, and below you can download the finished.pspimage file. Enjoy!

And our finished result!

Download the File(s) here!

Step 1

Launch VideoStudio and add the “The End” title preset. You can see which one I choose below and how it looks.

Step 2

Now I made the text Arial, and made that bold. I liked it better then the default font Arial Bold, because it wasn’t quite as bold. Size doesn’t matter, don’t bother with it. We only need to work on the style.

Now let’s remove the crummy border.

And let’s make a nice, techy, simple drop shadow glow using these settings:

We now have pretty awesome text. It fades in and out. Sweet.

Step 3

Great. Render the video out in your desired format. For this tutorial I am going with a more simpler Non-HD setting that’s quicker.

Now delete what’s in your timeline and insert your rendered video unto Overlay Track 1. Now you can see why I told you size didn’t matter. You can make it any size you want! I’m leaving as it is, but aligning it to the left.

Step 4

Now, in the attribute tab, use these two settings (highlighted):

Now play back your video. You can see it comes in from the left and at the same time fades in. I am also going to add a Black color block and make the video fade out by dragging the Color block over the video (and if it isn’t crossfade you can add it from the Effect tab).

Step 5

So I render my text again and am finished! You can play around with it. If you want to make it different speeds, select the clip and drag the handles that appear under the video preview. To make it slower, drag the first one over to the right, like this:

Here’s my preview, hope you enjoyed this tutorial.