In this tutorial you’ll be learning how to create a sticker effect, which is useful to know in this Web 2.0 era. You can sse this effect for logos or headers. This is what you’ll get at the end of this tutorial.


Step 1

Write some text using either rounded or straight font, but it must be bold.

Step 2

Add a gradient to it, by clicking on the colour of the font, then clicking on “Fill Options”. You should get a good light gradient something like this:

You should now get something like this:

Step 3

Now its time to add that shine to it, this will give it the Web 2.0′ish feel.
You do that by adding an effect called the “Inner Shadow” from the “Shadow & Glow” menu in the filter menu.

Set the effect like the following.

You should get something like this.

Step 4

Its time to add a thick white outline to it, you do that by adding an effect called the “Glow” from the “Shadow & Glow” menu in the filter menu (I showed you were the filter menu is above). Set the effect like the following.

This is how it should look like.

Step 5

This is the final step, Woot! All you have to do is just give it a “drop shadow” from the same menu as all the other effects iv used so far. Set the drop shadow effect like the folowing.

Now! you should have this:-