Carved Wood Type Tutorial

Step 1: Click on the gradient tool. In the options toolbar, click on the gradient thumbnail to bring up the gradient editor. when it appears, double click on the left color step. When the color picker appears, click on the custom button, then choose PANTONE 722, and click okay. 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 top of the background layer. Go under the Filter Menu, under noise, and choose Add Noise. Enter 12% for Amount, choose Gaussian, check Monochromatic, and click OK.

Step 3: Then, go under the Filter Menu, under Blur, and choose Motion Blur. Enter 33º 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 convert your type layer into a regular image layer. Now, under Brush Strokes, choose sprayed stroke. Type 12 for stroke length, 7 for radius, and right diagonal for direction. Click OK.

Step 5: Click on the magic wand tool. Click once in your first letter 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 chunks of white space around the letters created by the brushed 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 select background area up on it's own layer. In the layers palette, click once on the background layer. Press Apple + A, then press Delete. Press Apple + D to deselect.

Step 7: Click on your text layer 1 choose bevel and emboss from the layer styles menu at the bottom of the layers palette. 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 styles dialog box, click on the word drop Shadow to bring up it's 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 made from Normal to Color Burn.

Step 9: Duplicate 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.