Carved Wood Type Tutorial

Step 1 Click on the gradent tool in the options bar, click on the gradient thumbnail to bring up the gradient editor. When it appears, double click on the left color stop. When the color picker appears, click on yje custom button, then choose PANTONE 722, and click ok double click on the right color stop, this time choose PANTONE 732, Click ok.

Step 2 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 gaussian, click monochromatic, and click ok.

Step 3 Then, go under the filter menu, under blur and choose motion blur. Enter 33'' for angle and 10 for distance click ok. Now go under the filter menu under sharpen and choose unsharp mask Enter 500% for amount, 9.0 pixels for radius and 1 for threshold then click ok

Step 4 Type your text go under the layer menu under rasterize and choose type to oconvert 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 then click ok.

Step 5 Click the magic wand tool click once in your first letter of your word Then go under select menuand choose similar to select the rest of the letters under the select menu choose inverse now press delete to remove the little chunks of white space around the leters created by the brush strokes filter

Step 6 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 background area up on its own layer In the layer palette Click once on the background layer Press apple+a then press delete. Press Apple+D to deselect.

Step 7 Click on your layer text layer choose bevel and emboss from the layer styls menu at the bottom of the layers pallete when the dalog box appears, Increase the depth to 400% and decrease the size to 4 increase the higlight opacity to 90% from te left side of the layer style dialog box, click on the word drop shadow to bring up its options increase the size to 8, lower the opacity to 50% and click ok

Step 8 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 mode from normal to color burn

Step 9Duplicate your new layer then duplicate your duplicated layer change the layer mode from color burn to screen. Click on the move tool press the right arrrow key twice then the down arrow key once.