Carved Wood Type Tutorial

Step1:Click on the gradient tool. In the Options Bar, click on the Gradient editor. When it appears, double-click on the left color stop. When the color picker appears, click on the custom button, then choose PANTONE 722 and click ok. Double-click on the right color stop, this time choose PANTONE 732. Click ok.

Step2:In the options bar, click on the radial gradient icon. Using this tool, click-and-drag from the center to the top of the background layer. Go under the filter menu, under noise, and choose add noise. Enter 12% for amount, choose gaussion, check monochromatic, and click ok.

Step3:Then, go under the filter menu, under blur. Enter 33º for angle and 10º for distance. Click ok. Now, go under the filter menu, under shapen, and choose unsharp mask. Enter 500% for amount, 9.0 or 9 pixels for Radius, and 1 for Threshold, then click ok.

Step4:Type your text. Go under the layerr menu, under raterize, and choose type, to convert your type layer into a regular image layer. Now, under brush strokes, choose sprayed strokes. Type 12 for stroke length, 7 for radius, and right diagonal for direction. Click ok.

 

Step5:Click the magic wand tool. Click once in the first letter of your word. Then go under the select menu and choose delete to remove the little chunks of white space.

 

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

Step7:Click on your text layer. Choose bevel and emboss from the layer styles menu at the bottom of the layers pallet. When the dialog box appears, increase the depth to 400% and decrease the size to 4. Increase highlight opacity to 90%. From the left side of the layer style dialog box click on drop shadow to bring up its options. Increase the size to 8, lower the opacity to 50% and click ok.

Step8:Choose the lasso tool. Make a thin selection in the center of 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 made from normal to color burn.

Step9:Duplicate your new layer. Now duplicate  your duplicated layer. Change the layer made from color burn to screen. Click on the move tool. Press the right arrow key twice then the down arrow key.