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. 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 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 fitter menu ,under noise, and choose add noise. Enter 12% for amount, choose Gaussian check monochromatic and click OK

Step 3: Then, do 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 raserize, and choose Type to convert your type layer into a regular image layer. Now under Brush strokes type 12 for stroke length, 7 for radius and right diagonal for direction for radius, and right diagonal for direction Click OK

Step 5 : Click 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, 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 fitter.

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 om it's own layer. In the layers back ground 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 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 high light opacity to 90% from the left side of the layer style 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 to hold down the shift key. Press Apple + c to copy. add a nem 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 Chang the layer mode from 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.