Text Effect Quickie: Moon Shine Text Effect
In just a few simple steps, you can add a calm, easy-going text effect — great for evening events and crisp banners.
This is a Text Effect Quickie — a tutorial that teaches an effect quickly, yet is an effective technique that can be used time and time again. If you’re looking for advanced tutorials, be sure to check out the rest of our Photoshop Tutorials on Tutorial9!
What We’re Making
This Text Effect Quickie will show you how to easily create a soft glowing moon-like text.
Before getting started, you may want to download the font used:
Step 1 – Background
Since this text effect looks best on dark colored backgrounds, let’s create one. Using the color #0f1c25 and black, create a radial gradient from the center of your document.
Step 2 – Setting the Type
Let’s set some type in the document to use the effect on. Bolder and stronger fonts will work better!
Step 3 – Setting Up the Layer Style
Go into your text layers Blending Options (Right Click Layer > Blending Options).
Apply the layer effects shown below, making any modifications as needed.
Drop Shadow
Outer Glow
#afd3e2
Inner Glow
#93c1d4
Gradient Overlay
#afd3e2 to White
220 Comments
Brilliant. Thanks so much for posting this. Really easy instructions to follow, and also thanks for the Nevis Bold font style.
Flag as inappropriateThe font is Houschka
Flag as inappropriateGreat post and straight to the point. I am not sure if this is actually the best place to ask but do you folks have any thoughts on where to hire some professional writers? Thanks :)
Flag as inappropriateThanks for this one, incredibly easy!
Flag as inappropriateNo bad!
Flag as inappropriateamazing
Flag as inappropriatetotally great
what font are you using
Flag as inappropriatewow, its a great text tutorial, thanx
Flag as inappropriateYes, How’d you make the sparkle?
Flag as inappropriateHow’d you make the sparkle?
Flag as inappropriateso easy
Flag as inappropriateVery nice, clean text style… Nice work :)
Flag as inappropriateThis very quickly became one of my most favorite style for texts! Thanks a lot.
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Flag as inappropriateWhats the font u are using :) x
Flag as inappropriatePerfect. Thank you.
Flag as inappropriatewait so how do you create the radial gradient for the background..? ><
Flag as inappropriateAwesome tutorial. The effect is really awesome. It actually inspired me for my logo design and I got my designer from LogoDesignPlanet.com to design a logo incorporating elements found from your tut. It came out better than expected as I thought it would be difficult to look strong and corporate but it looked really polished. Even my friends who were skeptics at first were blown away by how the logo design turned out. I got to thank you for posting this tut as I did show to my designer for reference to how I want it to look like. Thanks heaps!
Flag as inappropriateversy easy and its cool
Flag as inappropriatelovely stuff there!
Flag as inappropriateDuuuuud that is perfect it was done before i know it.
Flag as inappropriatethanks please but more of those.
see ya
that’s MONO GREATT
Flag as inappropriateVery cool, thanks for sharing.
Flag as inappropriatewhoa!!! that was fast… I was doing it step by step without reading through it first and I was surprised to see that were no further instructions… only 3 steps!!!
Flag as inappropriateNice Moon Effect!
Flag as inappropriateThank you for your share!
Flag as inappropriateThanks, pretty clean, and nice.
Flag as inappropriateomg! thanks
Flag as inappropriateThanks greate and easy text effect ;-)
Flag as inappropriateHow do you get those stars???
Flag as inappropriateTutorial was very helpfull, but couldn’t get mine to look quite like the picture
Flag as inappropriatethanks for sharing. So mush125
Flag as inappropriatethanks for sharing. So mush118
Flag as inappropriatethanks for sharing. So mush113
Flag as inappropriatewow Cool tip thank for sharing.
Flag as inappropriateso that how they do it! thanks for the TUT
Flag as inappropriateon the last step on the gradient, how do i make it blue? mine is defaulted to black. Thanks!
Flag as inappropriateThanks for your easy tutorial
Flag as inappropriatehey if someone can make a banner like this for my website I will pay.
Flag as inappropriateemail stickamhelp@gmail.com
Thank you very much for the effect Iam, please as the effect of light beams on the letters S and M? Thank you very much Iam!
Flag as inappropriatereally cool but how did you get it so the sparkle came on?
Flag as inappropriatelovely!
Flag as inappropriateI always add a tichy star to each letter ^.^
nice, simple and effective…love it
Flag as inappropriateCool effect. Might give it a shot, but how do you get the little sparkles on the letters, or am I missing something?
Flag as inappropriateTutorial9 is my favorite Photoshop site – simple and great tutorials!
Flag as inappropriatethat is very detail step by step method to create a good moon text effect
Flag as inappropriateimpressive !!! thanks a lot For the Tutor :)
Flag as inappropriategreat tut i liked alot i am still an amatuer at PS and trying to get better.
thx again
Flag as inappropriateGreat tut! I use some twinkle brushes and a cool star texture for the finishing touch:
http://i25.tinypic.com/mm30cy.jpg
Flag as inappropriatehi,
Thanks for the tutorial , very helpful. You can make it more helpful if you add some explanation why you add such layer effects. This will help people like me who doesn t know Photoshop to better understand.
Flag as inappropriatethank u , nice effect on text
Flag as inappropriateWery nice, thank you
Flag as inappropriateThk, for the moonlight effect.
Flag as inappropriateHey nice tuts, very helpfully improving my designing skill, hope that tutorial9 will be exist 4ever!!
Flag as inappropriategood effect, I will use it on the my new layout ! HIi ;)
Flag as inappropriateTyler, I would have the same question as Younes above. When done in high resolution, the gradients have bands. How do I avoid this?
Thanks for the tutorial Tyler.
Flag as inappropriateAwesome. Thank you for the style
Flag as inappropriatewow~nice tutorial~cool!
Flag as inappropriateGreat tutorial, thanks a lot.
Flag as inappropriateNice outcome!
Flag as inappropriatewow great twinkle effect on the text this is great…
Flag as inappropriateNice effect
Flag as inappropriateThat looks nice also if it’s simple
Flag as inappropriateI found out that the font used for “Effect” is a font called “Kastler”. :-)
correct me if im wrong ;-)
Flag as inappropriateThank you Tyler Bramer for ur easy and amazing way to set the tuturial
Flag as inappropriateHey Tyler,
Thanks for the tutorial. How do i get that effect which seems like a star is shining?
Cheers!
Flag as inappropriatenice share, you so young but your very experience with photoshop great ^^
Flag as inappropriatenice share, it’s very helfull for me^^, thanx
Flag as inappropriateGreat effect! I’m planning to use this effect on a design in the near future. Thanks for the great tutorial!
Flag as inappropriateNice tutorial, it’s simple but really attractive, love it.
Flag as inappropriateVery nice tutorial! I suck at photoshop and was able to follow it without any problems! congratulations!
Flag as inappropriateI’m glad that you had an easy time following it!
Flag as inappropriateI love the way you guys explain the process; it’s comprehensive and easy to follow. Also this is cool.
Flag as inappropriateGreat tutorial thanks a lot !
This is just an example of use: http://www.flickr.com/photos/inicolas-pictures/3200400738/
Nicolas.
Flag as inappropriate@Andre, Terkel, and Ron
The sparkles can be added with a brush. Try this one here: http://www.photoshopbrushes.com/brushes/28.htm
Flag as inappropriateany luck with the .pdf file? ^_^
Flag as inappropriateLove this tutorial but how where the sparkles added? It is not shown in this tutorial. Thanks
Flag as inappropriate@Sean: Glad you found it.
Flag as inappropriate@Affordable Web Design: Anytime!
First of all… Thank you very much for the effort publishing such simple but powerfull tuts!
I made a wallpaper out of this one with a widescreen resolution which is 1920×1200. I dont know if such a high resolution causes the problem I am having but i am very interested in how to solve it: The problem is the gradient you use which cause banding which are in a very annoiing way visible. I tried to apply some noise but that doesnt help either. How do i solve this banding problem?
Flag as inappropriateNice tutorial!
Thanks for the share
Flag as inappropriateWoops, didn’t see the comment above!
Thanks again!
Flag as inappropriateGreat tutorial!
Would you be able to tell me what font you used for the small text that says “effect”?
Thanks
Flag as inappropriateThat would be the font English.
Flag as inappropriateI can’t download layer style.
Flag as inappropriateIs there some error?
Hi. Great tutorial. I would like to know what is the name of the font used for “Effect” text next to Moonshine. Thank you.
Flag as inappropriateThat’s was great job. Thanks.
Flag as inappropriateDude, this site is amazing!!!!!!!
Keep up the brilliant work and nice and easy tutorial
grtz, SpunX
Flag as inappropriateThanks for the tutorial, it was great! Keep coming with the tuts! ;)
Flag as inappropriateNice idea, trying it out right a way. Try some more natural effects like space view, night view, noon vies,…
Flag as inappropriateI’m glad that you all like the simple clean look that I was going for!
Flag as inappropriatenice, simple and effective…love it
Flag as inappropriateIt’s Named Nevis Bold…. You can see it in the top of the topic and in the first comments.
Flag as inappropriateRegards
wow..nice effects I love text effects but then the layer style is hard to remember.. any ideas how to memorize it??? thx… Awsome tutorial!
Flag as inappropriatesomebody know what is the name of the font used here? thanks!
Flag as inappropriatehow do you make the glitre shine effect?
Flag as inappropriateI really like it! Thanks mate
@Uproar: Thanks Ray :) All the writers at Tutorial9 do what they can to help the community. Just in case you missed it, this Tutorial was actually written by Tyler Bramer, but we’ll all be sure to take this as a huge compliment, so thank you!
Flag as inappropriateHey David ive been viewing your work for the past few weeks now, and really love this site, i venture around the places like this alot of the time, but this site makes me want to come back for me, your tutorials are easy and detailed to follow, because of this site i was introduced to http://www.sxc.hu and my condolences go out to you and your hard work putting such a great learning experience for beginners to highly adept graphic designers. With this site there is always something new to learn and this moonshine is just one of many.
great simple and VERY effective text style :) keep it up david i am always telling everyone about this place. for great experience.
Yours Kindly
Ray
Flag as inappropriateCool effect. Might give it a shot, but how do you get the little sparkles on the letters, or am I missing something?
Flag as inappropriateSimply Awesome, great work Tyler! This is just what I needed to help me create a new logo for my site.
Flag as inappropriateThanks David!
Flag as inappropriateTutorial9 is my favorite Photoshop site – simple and great tutorials!
love when it’s not to complicated but when it’s simple and quick !
looks pretty nice and professionnal
GoOd Job !
Flag as inappropriatekeep doing tutorials… a loved it!
thankyou for everything!
Nice Work!
bye
Flag as inappropriateI like your tutorial.
Flag as inappropriateGood job!
looks elegant:)simple yet cool.great tutorial.
Ronald
Flag as inappropriate@rad_thundercat: Nice suggestions rad_thundercat :) Sorry, your first comment was held for moderation. It’s up now. Sometimes the comment system makes errors like that.
Flag as inappropriateI guess the comment didn’t post because I had a link.
Nice and subtle effect.
You can make those glares a little more realistic by doubling up the layers and setting one to screen, and the other to ‘color dodge’. Adjust the visibility by tweaking the levels of each layer, not the opacity.
Flag as inappropriateNice and subtle.
You can make those glares pop a bit more by doubling up the layers and setting one to screen, and the other to ‘color dodge’.
Shown here: http://www.redcultur.com/silkypixel/2008/06/08/3dsmax-glare-tutorial/
Flag as inappropriatethat was great… thank you :)
Flag as inappropriateWOW!
It’s great!
I like this effect, it’s like a milky effect XD
Flag as inappropriateNice and simple, exactly what it says on the tin :)
Flag as inappropriateNevis Bold. There’s a link up towards the top of the Tutorial for it ;)
Flag as inappropriateNice one :) hmmm… what font it is? :>
Flag as inappropriateVery nice, quick and effective as usual from Tutorial9. Keep them coming :)
Flag as inappropriateNice and simple Tyler. A Text Effect like this would work great in a Dark Themed Website in my opinion.
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