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Boxy text effect

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial we will play with some text styles to make a crazy looking boxy text effect.

First we start off by making a black background layer, lock it so we dont do anything else to it.

Now grab the text tool and type in the text you want to apply this effect to.

In the layers panel right click the text layer and choose rasterize layer. Then make 2 copies of it and name one of them "backup" and the other two others "1" and "2"

Make the layer we named backup invisable by clicking the small eye icon in the layers panel. Now we are ready to do some filters work.

Select the layer called 1 and go to filter -> blur -> motion blur and blur it as shown below.

Select the layer we named 2 and give it a mtion blur with these settings.

In the layers panel select the layers we called 1 and 2, right click and merge them together into one.

Go to filters -> pixelate -> mosaic and give it settings as shown below.

Go to filters -> sharpen and repeat it a couple of times to make the effect more sharp.

Now we can make the layer named "backup" visable again and we are ready to give it some styles.

In the layers panel double click the "backup" layer to get to the layers styles panel and give it settings as shown below.

And we are done!