Create a new black background (Ctr + N) with 500 x 500 pixel (i.e width=500, height = 500 Resolution= 300, Paper Colour = Black) then click on ok

Type in your text using the text tool (f8)

Click on your Object Pick Tool (O) note please click do not press letter O on keyboard

Press ctl+m to mask the object

Go to Edit Menu>fill

Select fountain fill>Click on edit
on the fountain fill dialoge box choose the following setting
type = linear, angle= -90, steps = 256, edge pad = 0%,
colour blend option
check on two colour
from = blue, to = white, mid-point = 50

Go to Effect>plastic
highlight = 76, depth = 2, smoothness =21, light direction=315, light colour = white

Copy the text, go to file menue click on new from clipboard
on the new page that display

Go to image>flip>flip vertically
copy it, and past it into the previous page, make sure it is below the base of the first text
while still selected, click on object transperancy tool (I)
fad-in the object

for those using adobe photoshop, please tell us the procedure to achieve this effect. and do not forget to post your final image here for us to see

it had been a month now, and i have not seen any photoshop freak to post the procedure in photoshop to get this effect, what is happening

Abeg Nairaland, so u mean there is no body using photopaint here, Most of you have it, but you do not know where it is, to your notice, if you have coreldraw install in your system that mean you already have it (photopaint)

tried with corel11 but got stuck cos@
Go to Effect>plastic
highlight = 76, depth = 2, smoothness =21, light direction=315, light colour = white
i sdont have this option .anyway round this?