Same thing, but this time messed with colors and erased the edges of the copy.
step 5 of 12
Same thing as last step, except the outer text is darker.
step 6 of 12
Tree made of black text.
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The shadows were created by blurring previous text.
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Fixed tree
step 9 of 12
Changed the text colors.
step 10 of 12
I forgot to mention that I added a zoom blur in a previous step. In this image I did the following:
- changed colors again
- created ground using text
- the reflection is just a flipped over copy of the top.
step 11 of 12
Applied cloud filter, then distorted it.
step 12 of 12
Changed the cloud layer attributes. Blurred the sides a little bit as well.