Carved Wood Type Tutorial

STEP 1: Click on the gradient 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 the 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 back round 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 filter menu, under blur, and choose Motor Blur. Enter 33º for angle and 10 for distance, Click Ok. Now go under sharper, 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 layers menu, under rasterize, and choose Type to convert image layer. Now under Brush Stokes, Type 12 for stroke length, 7 for radius, and right diagonal for direction. Click Ok.

STEP 5: Click the image wind 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 select menu and choose Inverse. Drag your text layer into the trash to delete it. Press Apple+J to put the selected back round area up on its layer. In the layers palette, click once in the back round layer. Press Apple+A, then press delete. Press Apple+D to deselect.

STEP 7: Click on your text layer. 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 style dialog box, click on the the word, drop shadow to bring up its options Increase 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 new layer, press Apple+V to paste, change the layer mode from normal to Color Burn.

STEP 9: Duplicate your New Layer. Now duplicate your duplicated layer. Change the mode from color burn to screen . Click Ok.