This guide shows you a quick way to add some nice text effects to your DVD menu design using Adobe Photoshop. This example uses Photoshop version 7. The following screen shot displays the letters "Play" in this "Sticky Jelly" style. This style works well with non-serif text with rounded corners. The effect looks convincing with primary colors and short words at fairly large size. This style can be very appealing for the title of your movie feature. Here I used a fairly light and plain color background to demonstrate its effect.

Step 1.
Type in your text or use an image of the desired letters in black on a transparent background. You need to make sure that the background is transparent (not white or anything else), otherwise those next steps will not work properly.

Step 2.
We are going to add a style to this layer. Click this option to show the next window. You should have the Layers window open to see this option. If not, from the menu, click Windows -> Layers to display the Layers window.

Now select the blending options. Photoshop displays a list of options available for blending. We are going to use six blending options: drop shadow, inner shadow, bevel and emboss, color overlay, gradient overlay and, optional stroke.