"Gel type tutorial"

Step 1- Choose your font, size and color.

Step 2- Type your word

Step 3- Make a new layer

Step 4- In your layers palette, Apple+Click your type layer to put the marching ants' around the text.

Step 5- Go around the select menu, under modify, and choose contract. When the contract dialog appears, enter 2 pixels, and click ok, then press option+delete to fill your contracted selection.

Step 6- Deselect by pressing apple+D. Duplicate this layer by dragging it to the new layer icon. Go under the filter menu, under Blur and choose Gussian Blur. When the dialog box appears, enter 3 pixels, and click ok.

Step 7- Choose bevel and emboss from the layers styles pop-up menu at the bottom of the layers palette.
->Style=Emboss
->Depth=300
->Size=12
->Highlight Opacity= 100%
->Shadow Mode=Color Dodge
->Shadow Mode Opacity=40%
->Black Color Switch=White (click ok)

Step 8= In the layers palette click on the eye icon beside the back round layer to hide it. Then choose merge visible from the palettes drop down menu. Choose drop shadow from thestyeles menu and click ok. Click on back round layer to cover it.