Freezing Ice Text Effect

Hello all today we are going to make a Icy text effect in adobe photoshop:



First make a canvas ( I used 400 x 200 px ) and fill it with black:



Second we need to type in our text ( I used “Icy” with Ariel Black at 72pt ):



Now rasterize the text layer by right clicking the layer and click Rasterize Type:



Right click the Icy layer and click Merge down:



Goto Filter > Pixelate > Crystallize:



Enter 3 as the Cell Size:



Now goto Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur:



Enter 1 pixel and click ok:



Now goto Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW:



Goto Filter > Stylize > Wind:



Make sure From the Right is ticked and click ok:



Now goto Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CCW:



Then Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation:



Enter Hue: 215 Saturation: 50 Lightness: 0 and make sure Colorize is checked:



And here is your final result:



Thanks for looking at this tutorial and hope you learned from this.