Matted Glass
by Nick Ustinov

Start with a new RGB image, white background black foreground. Using type tool type some text. If you are using Photoshop 4.0, just hit Ctrl-E to merge down the type layer (Cmd-E on Mac)

wpe20.jpg (3252 bytes) Duplicate the image (Image/Duplicate...). Now you have 2 images one is Untitled-1 and 2nd one is Untitled-2. Switch to second image and blur it using gaussian blur (Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur...). Set setting to 3.0. Now Filter/Other/Offset.. 3,3
wpe21.jpg (2352 bytes) Now switch to the first image and go to Image/Calculations... Use settings as in image shown below. (it is important to use Overlay mode here)
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wpe24.jpg (2961 bytes) Add some colors here too. Go to Image/Adjust/Hue/Saturation.., click Colorize checkbox and play.
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