The jelly-type effects are extremely impressive and are three-dimensional if the filter Un-sharp Mask (select from the menu Sharpen Filter). Yes, try the following values and run the filter twice:
Amount: 150%, Radius: 1 and Threshold: 7.
There is another way as well for achieving this:
You can use Adobe Illustrator (or Freehand, or CorelDRAW) to put your text on a path and then …

A clever method to get realistic colors in important areas of an image; such as skin, grass, hair, and sky is to open a color image containing true colors such as black or white.
You can then use the Color Picker to move the mouse pointer to a true color, take a sample from the true colors and return to your …

The clipping group used in the layers is often confused with the well-known term clipping path, but they are two completely different things. The only common point is their effect: a group of off putting your picture in a text (or whatever space) and in the next lower layer, we can say it removes everything except the limits of the text. …

If you apply a filter and want to apply it again with different parameters, there is a keyboard shortcut to do just that. You can display a dialog box containing the last filter you ran with the settings used by pressing Option-Command-F (PC: Alt-Control-F). If you want to re-apply the last filter you used with exactly the same settings, simply …

The only time you should enable Colorize within the framework of dialogue Hue / Saturation is when the image or selected area does not contain any color.
Enabling this framework adds color to the picture. If your image is already colored and you only want to change the color, there’s no need to click on Colorize - simply move the cursor …