# Ghost effect

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [September 15, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397 "2004-09-15T20:55:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![hojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@hojo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hojo)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397/1 "2004-09-15T20:55:49Z")

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Looking to recreate this text effect:  
[![](http://leaderwireless.com/pics/25013ACH1012ACH101.gif) ](http://leaderwireless.com/pics/25013ACH1012ACH101.gif)

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397/2 "2004-09-15T21:07:01Z")

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make your text…Then rasterize the text layer. Then cntl+click the layer in the layer pallete. Goto selection\>\>modify\>\>contract…Contract it about 3 pixels…Then press delete. \

Now you text has a hole in it. Place what you want below it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397/3 "2004-09-15T21:34:15Z")

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why dont you just put a stroke on it and lower the fill opacity…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397/4 "2004-09-15T21:39:34Z")

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Why don’t you just put a dropshadow on it and then lower the fill opacity? 😃

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397/5 "2004-09-15T21:55:00Z")

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lol…or those will work…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397/6 "2004-09-15T22:40:13Z")

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ha, there are so many ways to do some things in photoshop

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397/7 "2004-09-18T08:21:53Z")

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i’m not too sure, but i think it uses dropshadow and an overlay blending mode:  
 ![](http://vincecrypt.0catch.com/MarsVince.jpg)  
([vincecrypt.0catch.com/MarsVince.jpg](http://vincecrypt.0catch.com/MarsVince.jpg))  
Something like that, except mine’s embossed and innerShadowed 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/ghost-effect/64397/8 "2004-09-20T19:12:47Z")

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superb gentlemen, my thanks extended.