A different 3-D looking effect.

Start With some ``roundish'' text. I used baskerville 75pix antialias 3, c-N

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Duplicate it and then Blur and Invert U-2 and Duplicate it again Gaussian-Blur 3 was OK for this text size a-D

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Now Add U-1 and U-2
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Apply Multiplicative Brightness -150 to U-3

Create a mask in a new canvas with the Blend tool. Make it about the same height as the text
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Now you add U-3 and U-5, and then
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And then Multiply U-4 and U-6...getting confused? ...well I am a-M
Offset U-2, Multiply U-2 and U-7 I offset with x=2 and y=2 a-O

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And finally the fun part. Apply som BCG until you get the color you want Actually I used it as black and white but why not in color :) Map/
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This would probably have been better if the blur around the text would have been smaller. When I did it in B&W it was OK but in color it turned out too bright.