Today we are going to experiment with Text and Text Manipulations ? no Drawing for today.

So start as usual by creating a new layer and a document.



Then on a separate layer create a line ? and past some text there.



Now let's apply come layer styles + it is better to Fill the background layer with something, I choose the brush) ? I will use my custom brush ? you can use gradient or simple color fill - anything you want.



And here we have it you can also apply some filters on it.
I used Twirl filter.



But this is not actually good ? it is not the theme of our lesson but it is very important for you to know and to feel the color so what I did.

I made a gradient layer (black to white).



And make a copy of it.



The layer location and settings ? note ? you will find many interesting colors if you play with Fill/Opacity.