Then go to the layers panel and double click the text layer to get to the layers styles panel and give it the following settings.
Click Select --> Modify --> Expand and choose something like 11 pixels (depending on the size of your text you might want to adjust this value).
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First type in the text you want to apply this effect to, hold down ctrl and click the text layer in the layers panel to load the text selection.
[6] Then go to Filter>Render>Cloud.
Start off with a simple text
The middle column of the Layer Style dialog box will change to the Bevel and Emboss options. The first thing we want to do here is load a new "Gloss Contour", so go down to where it says "Gloss Contour" in the "Shading" options and click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the contour preview thumbnail: