Carved Wood Type Tutorial

Step1 Click the on the gradient tool. In the optians bar, click on the gardient thumbtail to bring up the gradient editor. When it appears, double click on the left color step. When the left coler stop. When t appears, click on the custom button, this time choose PANTONE 732. Click ok.

Step2 In the optians bar Click on the radial gradient icon. Using the tool, click and drag from top center to the top of the background layer. Go under the filter menue, under noise, and choose Add noise Enter 12%.For amount check monochromatic.

Step3 Then go under the filter menue , under blur, and choose motion Blur. Enter 33* for angle and 10 for distance. Click ok. Now go under the filter menue, under sharpen, and choose unsharp Mask. Ente 500% for amount, 9.0 pixels for radius, and I for threshhold, then click ok.

Step4 Type your text. Go inder the layer menu, under rasterlize, and choose type to convert your type to convert your Type layer into a regular image layer. Now under Brush strokes, choose sprayed strokes. Type 12 for stroke lenth, 7 for the radius and right diagonal for direction. Click OK.

Step5 Click the magic wand tool. Click once in your first letter of your word. Then go under the select the rest of the letters. Under the select menue, choose inverse. Now press delete to remove the littel chunks of white space around the letters created by the brushed stroke filter.

Step6 Go under the select menue and choose inverse. Drag your text into the trash to delete it. Press apple+J to put the selected background area up on its own layer. In the layers palete, click once on the backgorund layer to delete . Press apple+D to deselect.

Step7 Click on youur text layer.Choose bevel. and Emboss from the layer styles menue at the layers palete. When the dialog box appeares, increse the deth to 400% and decrse the size to 4. Increase the highlight Opacity to 90%. From the left side of the layer style dialog box, click on the word drop shadow to bring up the its options. Increase the size to 8, lower the opacity to 8, lower the opacity to 50% and click OK.

Step8 Choose the lasso tool. Make a thin selection in the center rof each letter. Remember to hold down the shift key. Press Apple+c to copy. Add a new layer press apple+ V to paste. Change the layer mode from normal to color burn.

Step9 Duplicate your new layer. Now duplicate your duplicated layer. Change the layer the layer mode from Color Burn to screen. Cliick on the move tool. Press the right arrow key twice the down arrow key.