Add Icy Effects to Your Text

Icy letters can be a great addition to winter postcards, Christmas cards or any cold weather photos. This simple tutorial for Photoshop will show you how.

• With a new document, use Type Tool to type your message.

• Select Filter>Noise>Add noise, select Amount = 130%

• Press Ctrl + E to merge down text layer and background layer

• Select Filter > Pixelate > Crystalize , Cell Size = 3

• Select Filter > Stylize > Find Edges

• Select Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, Radius = 1

• Rotate Layer by selecting Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CW

• Press Ctrl + I to invert image

• Select Filter > Stylize > Wind, choose settings Wind and From the Right

• Select Image>Rotate Canvas>90 CCW

• Change color of the text by selecting Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation. Set Hue at 220, Saturation at 100, and Lightness at 0. Select Colorize check box.
  

And you're done! Play around with the colors, might make a great Halloween effect as well!