How to Create an Abstract Eagle Photo Manipulation with Adobe Photoshop

You should now have something similar to this:

Step 2

Now we are going to add some layer style effects to the type to give it a shiny glossy finish. Double click on the layer thumb to bring up the Layer Styles menu and Check the “Bevel and Emboss” option. On the Depth option keep it at 100% with a size of 5px. On the Shading use an Angle of -29 and an altitude of 37Â°, change the Gloss Contour to the option showed below:

Now Check the “Satin” option use the Blending mode to multiply with color black to 39% opacity. Change the angle to -71 , Distance to 11 and size 14. Change the contour to the shape on the example:

After applying the layer effects you should have something like this:

Now create a new layer and merge it into the type layer (Ctrl+E) to apply the effects in the same layer. At this point you can change the Brightness and Contrast of the type again if you feel the colors got too washed out:

Now we are going to enhance some of the highlights using the dodge tool (O). Take a very small ,soft brush and set exposure to 10% and the range to “Highlights”. Brush gently over the brightest highlights of the type following the contour of the letter:

Step 3

We are basically going to do the same process for the other 2 words. For the second one, I played around with the Tetra font and how the upper case and lower case of the font has different decorations for each letter.

For this word, I chose a color palette ranging from a dark purple to very light pink.

Feel free to experiment with your color choices and combinations. To apply the layer style effect you can copy the layer style from the previous word and paste it on the next word layer: