Design Tools. Create realistic type on wood. In this tutorial we are going to take some regular text and add some effects to make it look like it has been painted or printed on wood. This is a great way to give your text that natural look. This can be applied to any solid shape, text, images, logos, etc. What we are going to need Adobe Photoshop Wood Texture Step 1 Open up the wood texture from Zen Textures in Photoshop. Go to Image>Image Size and change the width to 1200px and make sure the resolution is at 72 pixels/inch. Step 2 Using the Type Tool (T), create some white text that will roughly fit the width of the document (leaving some space on the edges). Using the Crop Tool (C) crop the top and bottom edges so they have a small margin around the text, about the same amount as the sides or a little more.
Step 3 Click on the eye icon to the left of the text layer to make the text disappear. Go to File>Save, and save it as a Photoshop file. Step 4 Make sure you have the background layer selected. Now go to Image>Adjustments>Threshold. 5 Great Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop. Technique 3: The Extract Technique As with the Background Eraser technique, it’s a smart idea to set the source for the History Brush early in the procedure, in case you need to do some touch-up later on. Now, let’s run the Filter > Extract command. (In earlier versions of Photoshop, this was located under the Image menu.) The Extract dialog box will appear. With the Brush tool selected, draw an outline around the object you wish to extract. The outline should overlap both the object and the background. If you need to zoom in while you’re outlining, hold down the Space Bar to change the cursor temporarily to the “hand” icon. When you’ve completed the outline, change to the Paint Bucket tool.
Fill the areas that you wish to “keep” with the paint bucket tool. Click the Preview button to see how the object appears when extracted. Here’s what my preview looks like. Again, I use the History Brush to restore parts of the object that were erased or partially erased. Extract Filter Technique: Playing with Displace Filter in Photoshop.
I have been playing a lot with the Displace filter in Photoshop and I still get impressed with how powerful it is. Even though I have written some tutorials using it, I decided to try to recreate a different effect that I saw in one of the images submitted for the Daily Inspiration. It was a brick wall deformed like it was made of cloth.
So in this tutorial, or a quick-tips I will show you how to create a curtain made of bricks or how to deform a brick wall as it was a curtain. To do that we wil use a few stock photos, layer adjustments and the Displace filter in Photoshop CS5. The technique is pretty simple and the tutorial won't take you more than 30 minutes to go through it. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Let's import another image, now of a girl opening the curtains. Step 3 With the Lasso Tool (L) or the Pen Tool (P) select the empty white. Step 5 Now select the hands/arms of the girl and the curtains. Step 6 Step 7 Go to Layer>Layer Mask>Hide Selection.
Step 8. Gorgeous Gradients. Tutorial by Matt Doyle | Level: Intermediate | Published on 1 January 1998 Categories: In this lesson we explore the gradient fill tool in Photoshop, and show you some cool effects you can produce with it. Photoshop's gradient fill tool allows you to produce all sorts of effects, from subtle shading to wacky psychedelia. We're going to show you how to use the gradient tool, make your own gradients, create 3d-like objects using gradient shading, and other fun-filled (haha!) Stuff. Fun-FILLED. Geddit? Using the linear gradient tool The linear gradient tool is the shaded rectangle icon, just below the text tool ( ).
Let's run through the features of this tool. The box contains a list of 16 preset gradients, and you can add your own gradients to the list. controls whether the transparency mask for the gradient will be used. Creates a smoother gradient effect by dithering the gradient to reduce colour banding (noticeable on big images with low colour depths).
Filling with a gradient Drag... Bullseye!