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How to create THIS gloss varnish text effect? Any tips, hints or tutorials?


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Hi Community,

I have been searching the web to no avail. I would like to create a gloss varnish effect like the below image. To apply to a logo or text to make it look like it has a spot varnish gloss coat. Looking at the image, it looks like it would be quite simple and not too technical but I can't seem to replicate the effect.

Anyone know how or seen a tutorial before?
GlossVarnish.jpg

Thanks in advance.
 
ibclare said:
Is this what you are talking about? I am not sure by your explanation and the image what effect you're trying to reproduce.

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Hi,

Thanks for taking a look. The logo in the image has an effect running from the top of the C diagonally through the two words to the y in energy. It may be quite faint on some monitors. But it basically makes the logo look like it's printed on paper with a spot varnish effect. I've been trying to replicate it in PS a number of ways but it almost looks like a brush stroke with noise on the edges and layering it with certain blending modes.
 
it could be just a premade texture that has been cut out using shape of the letters.
just a guess.
 
Maybe it is some sort of line that has a kind of half tone effect place over the text and used as a clipping mask.
 
I did a line with outer glow set to dissolve. But then had to press alt and wiggle the arrows a bit because the particles were a bit fine.
 
Thanks guys. It's looking close but have to play around with it more. I'm trying the soft brush set to dissolve. Just need to get the particles a bit thicker.

And to a previous question, this was not taken with a camera. It's a flat logo that's been placed on a 'paper' image and the 'varnish' effect is done through photoshop.
 
Layer mask drawn lines through original layer added ripple and blur, then played in the liquify box.
Also added a texture to the drawn lnes after i had altered with above tools.
vult.jpg
 
I have yet to see any gloss , except on the original. I also would like to know that, as I would love to add it to many of my automobile pictures...I thought of sandwiching a sheet of glass over the type....not sure how?
 
ibclare said:
Lend me your eyes Mike, cause I don't see any gloss on the original, just a cloud obscuring part of the image. :confused:
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the gloss his referring to is the brown line going through the middle.
and thats all it is a line with color of your choice with some displacement to give it a bumpy look
 
Dataflow said:
the gloss his referring to is the brown line going through the middle.
and thats all it is a line with color of your choice with some displacement to give it a bumpy look
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A little sarcasm there Dataflow, lol. I know what he's referring to but it's only the choice of color that seems to have a glow effect. There is no gloss effect other than the color contrast.


sprucemagoo1 said:
Don't ask me, I can only see out of one eye to begin with.
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Oh, I would like to take that quote into avatar wars spruce!
 
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