carved Wood Type Tutorial

Step 1: click on the gradient tool. in the option 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 pickers appear, click on the custom button, then choose Pantone 722, and click o.k. double-click on the right color stop; this time choose Pantone 732. click o.k. 

Step 2: in the option 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 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 strokes. type 12 for stroke length, 7 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 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 .

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 the layer text layer. choose bevel and emboss from the layer styles 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 lighted opacity  to 90% from the left side of  the layers 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 past  the layer mode 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 arrow key down once.