Carved Wood Type Tutorial

step1:Click on the gradient tool.In the options Bar, Click onthe gradient thumnail to bring up 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.Duble-click onthe right color stop;this time choose pantone 732 click ok.

step2:In the opions bar click onthe radial gradient icon.Using this tool,click-and-drag from teh center to the top of the backround layer.Go under the filter menu, under noise,and choose add nosie.Enter 12% for amount,choose gaussian, check monochromatic,and click ok.

step3:Then,go under the filter menu,under blur,and choose motion blur.Enter 33' for angle and10 for distence.Click ok.Now go under the filter menu,under sharpen,and choose unsharpen mask. Enter 500% for amount, 9.0 pixels for radius,and 1 for threshold,then click ok.

step4:Type your text.Go under the layer menu, under rasterize,and choose type to convert your type layer into a regular image layer.Now, under brush strohes,choose sprayed strokes.Type 12 for stroke lenght,& for radius, and right diagonal for direction.Click ok.

step5:Click the magic wand tool.Click once in your firstletter of your word. then go under the select menu and choose similar to select the rest of the letters.Under the select menu,choose inverse.Now, press delete to remove the little chuncl of while space.Around the letters created by the brushed strokes filter.

step6:Go under the select menu and choose inverse.Drag your text layer into the trash to delete it press apple +j to put the selected backround area up on its's own layer,In the layers palette,click once on the backrond layer.Press apple+A the [press delete.Pres apple+D to deselect.

step7:click on tthe layer text layer.Choose bevel and amboss from the layer styles menu at the bottom of the layers paltte.When the dialog box appears, increase the depth to 400% and decrease 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 it's options.INcrease the size to 8, lower the opacity.to50% and click ok.

step8Choose the lasso tool.Make a thin selection in the center of each letter.Rember to hold down the shift key.Press apple+c to copyadd a new layer press apple+v to paste.change the layer mode normal to color Burn.

step9Duplicate your new layer.Now duplicate your duplicated layer change the layer mode from color Burn to screen.Click on the move tool.Press the right arrow key twice the down arrow key once.