Where you can find fire, with a little bit of research, you can also find ice, no matter how strange this may sound. Since I didn’t show you how to create frozen text so far, I think that this cold day of December is a good choice to do it. Below, you can see my result, as usual…

1. Create a new image, using any settings you want. Fill the background layer with Black, or set background color as Balck first, and choose to create a new document filled with background color.

2. Add the text in the middle of the document, be sure to have some space between the letters(I added one Space character between them, but you can also increase the Tracking setting).

3. Apply Filter>Noise>Add Noise on the layer with the text(choose to rasterize the layer when asked), using the settings below.

4. Next, use Filter>Pixelate>Crystallize, with a Cell Size setting of 3(this may need to be changed according to the size of your image, as usual).

5. Now, apply Filter>Stylize>Find Edges and press Ctrl+I to invert the colors. Your image should be similar to the one below.

6. Before moving on, apply Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur, using a 1 pixel radius.

7. Rotate canvas 90 CW and then apply Filter>Stylize>Wind using the settings below. Press Ctrl+F to apply the filter once again, if you want more ice…

8. Image>Rotate Canvas>90CCW, to put text back on its feet. I used Wind twice for this image, so if yours looks different, this is probably the reason.

9. Create a new layer, set its blending mode to Overlay, and then fill it with #1498FF, using the Paint Bucket Tool.

10. Switch back to the text layer and check Satin in its Blending Options. Use the settings below.

This is it! I am sure it wasn’t that hard as expected, after all…don’t you think?