Teeth and all…!

Wooden Letters..!

Here is a nice easy way to create wooden looking letters, great for cards, web pages or wall papers.

Step 1...

We are going to start this project by first creating our background. Start a new document, I chose a one that was 1024x768 pixel 72ppi but you can make it any size really. Next reset your foreground/background swatch by pressing the D key on your keyboard. If the background isn't white fill it with white

Step 2

Next make a new Layer above the background called “wood texture”. Fill this Layer first with Clouds, Filter > Render > Clouds. Then fill the same Layer with Fibers, Filter > Render > Fibers, Variance 16 and strength 4.

Step 3

Next we make a solid colour adjustment Layer above the Wood texture Layer, Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Colour and set the colour to #8c6239. Set the blending Mode to Multiply, this will turn the wood to a dark brown colour.

Step 4

Were now going to make some knots in the wood, go to Filter > Liquify and using the Bloat tool, just press and hold on a few different spots to make a large circles. Next Click OK to accept the changes.

Step 5

The background now looks like it is made from wood, but the effect is too hard, so we reduce the opacity of the Wood Texture Layer to 30%, this will let some of the white background through and lightening up the whole effect...!

Step 6

Next choose the Horizontal Type Mask Tool from the Text Tool Fly out, I chose the font - Cooper SD. Type a Single capital Letter, you will see the screen turns red a bit like quick mask. When you have typed a letter click the Tick in the top right hand corner.

 

Step 7

When you have clicked the tick a selection outline will replace you typed the letter. Make a copy of the background by going to Edit > Copy Merged > followed by Edit > Paste > this will copy the letter to a new Layer. Name this Layer after the letter you chose – I used H.

Step 8

Add a Layer Style and use the following settings...

 

Step 9

With that completed we are now going to make a nail. Make a New Layer called Nail Sample and once again reset the swatch and fill it with Clouds. Next add some noise – Filter > Noise > Add Noise > set it to around 7.5%. Finally go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and set Angle to 0 and distance to 400.

step 10

Choose the Elliptical marquee tool and while holding shift – draw out a circle. With the selection in place press Control & J. this will make a copy of the selection to a new Layer. Name this Layer Nail.

Step 11

Next add a Drop Shadow Layer Style..

 

Step 12

Finally reduce the size of the nail and place it on top of our letter. Repeat the steps to make different letters changing the colour in the Colour Overlay Layer styles for different coloured wood.

 

Golly Gosh...!

Well it's been a busy week but I finished my work :)  so now i'm going to have to get back into doing my blog and working on content :D  I havent made any good art in a while so i will try and rectify that this week :D

Work…!

Sorry i’ve been MIA recently, i’ve been really busy working on tutorials and articles for magazines.  I’ve also been scanning some negatives for my brother and i found this..

Spotty lettering – Photoshop tutorial

For the last couple of months i've been pretty busy what with school holidays and writing things from Photoshop Creative Magazine. So i've decided to make a nice easy fun tutorial that is totally at the beginner level but is also effective and looks quite funky.

Step 1.

Open up Photoshop and make a new 1024x768 size document, set the background colour to #f5f3c5 which is a pale yellow colour.

Step 2.

Choose a nice big bold font – I used http://www.dafont.com/badaboom-bb.font. Set your text to red #ff0505 and size to 48, then type anything. As you can see I typed my name. Once you are happy with this then click the tick button at the top right of the screen.

Step 3.

Now we want to duplicate the text layer we just created – we do this by pressing Control & J together on the keyboard or by dragging the layer to the new layer icon at the bottom of the layer palette. Select the text on the new layer and change the font colour to Black.

Step 4.

Lets name these layers now - the red text layer name as Red and the black text layer as Black. Select the Black layer and add a Bevel and Emboss Layer Style (Layer > Layer Style> ) with the following options

then add a outer glow layer style...

Step 5.

Next add a layer mask to your Black layer and using a small hard edged brush with a foreground set to black start to stamp holes out of the black layer.

Step 6.

When you are happy with the text add a new layer above the black layer and call it Spots. Next control and click the layer mask we created for the Black Layer, this will select the layer and all the holes we just created. But as we just want the holes we will invert the selection – Select > Inverse >

Step 7.

Making sure you are on the Spots Layer fill the spot selections – Edit > Fill > Black.

Step 8.

Once all the spots are filled with black, flip the layer by going to edit > transform > flip vertically > then drag the selection down below the text.

Step 9.

Now using the free transform tool push the bottom anchor up making the spots slightly squashed. Finally move the spots layer below the red layer :)

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial – please feel free to follow me on twitter @revjesse and if you want you can visit my website at http://www.simonrudd.info :)

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