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 to stop. When the color picker appears, click on the custom button, then choose Pantone 722, and click  o.k. Double click on the right color stop. This time pick Pantone 732. Click o.k .

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, check monochromatic , and click o.k.

Step 3: Then go under the filter menu , under blur, and choose motion blur. Enter 33 degrees for angle and 10 for distance. Click o.k. Now go under the filter menu, under sharpen, choose Unsharp mask. Enter 500% for amount, 9.0 pixels for radius, and 1 for threshold.

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 strokes. Type 12 for stroke length , 7 for radius,  and right diagonal for direction.

Step 5 : Click the magic wand tool. Click once in your first letter of your word. Then go under the select menu to select the rest of the letters. Under the select menu choose Inverse. Now press delete to remove the little  chunks of white space.

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 upon its 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. 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 word drop shadow to bring up its options. Increase the size to 8, lower the opacity to 50 % and press o.k.

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 9 : Duplicate your new layer. Change the layer mode from color burn to screen. Click on the move tool. Press the right arrow key twice and the down arrow key once.