Candy Hearts
Now we just need to do the text. Grab a nice, blocky serif font (I’m using Coper Std) and set the foreground color to a dark pink, like #ec0080. Enter the text for your heart. Make it center aligned, all caps and center it atop the candy. Increase the kerning to about 25 and decrease the leading to about 2pt smaller than the font size.
There’s just one problem. That text is too clean. Go to Layer - Rasterize - Type to convert the text to a bitmap. Now go to Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur and enter an amount of 0.5.
Now set your foreground color to #fdf69b and the background color to #ec0080. Click the “Preserve Transparency” icon for the type layer in the layers palette and go to Filter - Render - Clouds. This should soften your text up a fair bit.
We’re almost done, just one more step. To give the impression that the text was stamped onto the heart, we’re going to give it a very, very slight outer bevel, like so.
And that finishes up your candy heart!
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