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 72, 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 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 the first letter of your word. Then go under the select and menu and choose similar to select the rest of the letters. Under select menu choose inverse. Now choose 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 can to delete it. Press apple +J to put the selected background area up on its own layer. In the layers pallet 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 layers style menu at the bottom of the layers pallet. When the dialog box appears, increase the depth to 400% and decrease size to 4. Increase highlight opacity to 90%. From the left side of the layer style dialog box click on drop shadow to bring up its options. Increase 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. Hold down the shift key while doing this. press apple + c to copy. Add a new layer, press apple+v to past change 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 then down arrow key once.