The process of my 'contents' text

Orignally my text 'contents' was just a solid colour. I changed the colour of it a few times before i actually chose to give it a gradient, to give it a bit more edge. Iv done print screens of me doing it on another text saying 'contents' to explain how i did it.
This was the first step:

I had to right click on the contents layer, click on the option 'blending options'. This then took me to a little box which gives me the option to change anything really. I had to click on gradient overlay aswell as tick it to change it to a gradient colour.

This was the second step:

 

I had to click on the arrow of the gradient colour box, this allowed me more options of colour and style of my text. I clicked the small arrow which gave me a list of options and i clicked on noise samples as it was the one which stuck out to me the most.

 

This was the third step:

 

 

I clicked on the very last one along the bottom, and decided it was the gradient style i wanted. You can see how it looks in the little preview box next to it.

 

The final step:

 

 Finally on my contents i wanted to make it even more better, so i added stroke. Its a black outline round the edge which gives it definition and emphasis on the page.