Text Engraved on Tree Effects Photoshop Tutorials * New 2006 *

Text Engraved On Tree

Start a new document 600x600. Press "D" to reset your colors to black and white.

Then go to Filters->Renders->Clouds.

Choose the Type Tool and create your text in white. Make it as big as possible, then duplicate this text layer.

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Merge the first text layer with the background, then hide the top text layer (wiz copy).

photoshop 100 tutorials text effect

Now go to Filter->Render->Lighting Effects.

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How hit CTRL+F to reapply the lighting effect. Keep doing this until you end up with something similar to mine. I did it 5 times

Now show/enable the top layer.

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Set the blending mode of the top layer to "Overlay" and opacity to 50%.

Here is mine:
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