Quicky Tutorial for a font with a gradiant in Photoshop 6 and higher:

1. First choose the gradiant colours you'd like by clicking on the two colour boxes in the tool panel:

2. Create your new image - open a new file, choose the font tool (looks like a T), choose your font (from the above panel - it will change into the fonts settings once the font tool is shaped):

And type your text.

3. Now you need to work with your layers palette. If it's not available on the workspace, go to the "window" menu, and make sure the layer palette is marked with a "v".

4. On the layer palette you will see that your font has its own layer (marked with a T and whatever you typed appears to the right). Right click on the font layer in the palette and from the tiny menu that opens, choose "blending options":

5. The blending option dialogue box opens and looks like this:

6. from the options first choose "stroke" make sure that the "stroke" option is both marked with a "v" and selected (i.e., marked in a dark colour), so that you can change it's settings. The initial settings for stroke are a red coloured stroke of 3 pixels width. We will change this to a black coloured stroke (click on the colour box to define the colour), and a 1 pixel border - where it says "structure" change "size" to 1. Like in the image below (don't close the blending options dialogue box yet):

7. Next we do is move to the "Gradiant Overlay" within the "blending options". Now where it says "gradiant" click on the tiny arrow to the right side of the gradiant (circled in image below) to get the various default gradiant colour options. The gradiant on the top left is based on the two colours you picked before with the tool panel. You should click on it to choose it:

8. Once chosen, a gradiant can be edited to fit your needs. Just click on the gradiant image itself (marked with a rectangle in image below) to edit the gradiant:

9. Below you see the gradiant editing options:

10. to change the amount of the colour within the gradiant you need to play with the sliders. In this case I wanted to have more dark blue, so I dragged the bottom left slider to the right until I got the desired effect (the slider is circled in the image below), click "ok" once you are done editing to return to the "blending options":

11. You can also choose to reverse the gradiant order if you wish:

12. Finally when you are done, in the "blending options" choose "ok" to accept all the changes:

Hope I didn't forget anything!