TRON Legacy Style

When your done you should see this:

Step 25 – Text

Create a new textbox and place whatever text you want in there, and center it.

Step 26 – Text Gradient

For my image, I have two lines of text, so my layer styles might be different then yours if you only have one line of text… keep that in mind here. Apply this layer style:

Step 27 – Text Reflection

Click (control/command + J) to duplicate your text layer, and then click (control/command + T), right click on the box and slect flip vertical. Move this layer to the bottom half of the image but keep it centered.

Step 28 – Text Reflection Gradient

Adjust the gradient by clicking reverse in the layer styles menu… it’s upside down now, so this is why we’re doing this.

Step 29 – Checkpoint

You should see something like this now:

Step 30 – Mask

Add a mask to this text reflection layer. What I did to make this mask, was take a big 300px soft black brush, and painted a line at the bottom of the layer. Then I applied a Gaussian blur of about 50px.

Step 31 – Finish

Move this text reflection layer beneath the layer “Bottom Color”, and reduce the opacity to about 50%. You should now be finished, and see this:

Feel free to experiment a bit with layer opacities, and see if you can do anything on your own design to improve this image… that’s where all the fun and learning is anyway!

Conclusion

Here is the finished project from these tutorial steps:

Here is the finished project from my original concept:

I hope that you have learned something new by reading this tutorial, and I also hope that you haven’t run into any difficulties (if you have, leave a comment with your concern and I or someone else will be happy to help you). Thank you for reading, and I look forward to your feedback.