Creative Effects Challenge No. 185 - Wood Burning Effect
Oct 1, 2022 16:08:34 GMT
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Post by Tpgettys on Oct 1, 2022 16:08:34 GMT
I have chosen a Wood Burning Effect for this installment of the Creative Effects Challenge. I quite liked the results in a Photoshop-specific tutorial (Wood Brand Photoshop tutorial) and wanted to see if I could translate it into Photoshop Elements. The written instructions below are a distillation and streamlining of the original. The video tutorial has more steps with some that are specific to Photoshop, and, to my eye, do not improve the result! Let me know what you think.
In what follows I have placed the keyboard shortcuts I used in parenthesis. (FYI: the Ctrl+Delete and Alt+Delete combinations didn't work if I used the numeric pad Del key)
- Find an image of wood to use as your background layer
- Set the background/foreground colors to the default white/black (D)
- Select the Text Tool (T) and type out our text using a thick font
- Reposition/resize the text to your liking
- Duplicate the text layer (Ctrl+J)
- Create a new blank layer between the two text layers (Ctrl-click the New Layer icon)
- Fill the new layer with white (Ctrl+Delete)
- Select the top layer and merge the top two layers (Ctrl+E)
- You should now have 3 layers: text on white background, text on transparent, wood texture (see screenshot below)
- Invert the top layer (Ctrl+I)
- Go to Filter | Stylize | Wind... Method: Wind, Direction: From the Right, click OK
- Repeat the same filter twice (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+F)
- Go to Filter | Stylize | Wind... Method: Wind, Direction: From the Left, click OK
- Repeat the same filter twice (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+F)
- Invert the top layer (Ctrl+I)
- Go to Filter | Blur | Gaussian Blur... Radius: 1 pixel, click OK
- Go to Enhance | Adjust Lighting | Levels... (Ctrl+L), move the left Output Levels up to 70
- Hide layer 2, then change the blend mode of layer 1 to Color Burn, Opacity: 60%
- Create a new layer (click the New Layer icon)
- Ctrl-click the thumbnail of the hidden layer to make a selection of the text
- Go to Select | Feather... Feather Radius: 2 pixels
- Fill the selection with black (Alt+Delete)
- Deselect the selection (Ctrl+D)
- Reduce the Opacity of the top layer to 40%
Notes:
For my image I merged a line-art image with the text layer, then proceeded to step 5
The font I used was PartinMarty's wood texture
Here is my wood-burning effect result:
(Click for full-size view)
It is difficult creating a robust written tutorial, so if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask.
This is a fun effect; I look forward to seeing your results!
This is a fun effect; I look forward to seeing your results!
