TUTORIAL: a super realistic broken ice text

It's a good day to make an astonishing realistic ice text effect. It's not easy to get something with this quality starting from scratch.

Go to this powerful ice text creator, so fill its interface like this:
- Text: ICE (set as you wish);
- Font size: Big;
- Margin: 3;
- Background color: 000000;
- Font name: Opium.

If you make like this, you get this amazing ice effect:

Extra tips:
- a dark blue back color is a very good option too;
- the ice is broken because of the font I have chosen. Set a different font face to get an intact ice text;
- you can generate countless professional text effects by using this list of text generators.

Is there a text effect you would like to see here? You can ask for it commenting here or sending me an e-mail.