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Carving on Wood in Photoshop Print E-mail

 In this tutorial you will see howyou can curve some words on a wooden surface by the means of Adobe Photoshop.

 

1. Let's find a wooden surface.

wooden surface

2. Go to Image > Duplicate

3. Then do Image>Adjustment>Levels.

4. Put value 1.1 into the second box and press ОК

Levels

5. Select all by pressing CTRL+A.

6. Then go to Edit>Define Pattern

7. Deselect by pressing CTRL+D

8. Create a new layer for the text.

9. Now we can work with the inscription. It can be a logo or a picture. Or you can just write the text you want with a brush (as I did) or using Text tool.

white words

10. Staying in this layer go to Layers>layer style where we will define a number of styles for the inscription.


Inner Shadow

Inner shadow style

Bevel and Emboss

Bevel and emboss style

Color Overlay

color overlay style

Pattern Overlay

pattern overlay style

Stroke

stroke style

The result should look like this:

semifinal image

11. Now let's make some final touches. Take a 1px erazer and make strokes along the wood lines and cracks. Here's the final image:

the result

12.You can use the layer style you created for the inscription on any new layer, in case you want to write something else on the same wooden surface. Just copy layer style staying on the layer with "Jack was here" inscription and paste Layer style into the layer with another piece of text.

myphotosft on wood

13.And what is more, you can use the same technique for writing on stone:

writing on stone