Carved Wood Type Tutorial

Step 1: Click on the gradient tool. In the Options Bar, click on the gradient thumbnail to bring up the gradient editor. When it appears, double-click on the left color stop. When the color poker appears, click on the custom button, then choose PANTONE 722 and click Ok. Double-click on the right color stop; this time choose PANTONE 732. Click Ok.
Step 2: In the options bar, click the radial gradient icon. Using this tool, click and drag from the center to the top of the background layer. Go under noise, and choose Gold Noise. Enter 12% for the Amount, choose Gaussian, Check Monochromatic, and click Ok.
Step 3: then go under the filter menu under blur and choose Motion Blur. Enter 33º for the angle and 10 distance. Click Ok. Now go under the filter menu, under sharpen, and Choose Unsharp Mask, Enter 500% for amount, 9.0 pixels for Radius, and 1 for Threshold, then click Ok.
Step 4: Type your text. Go under the Layer menu under rasterize, and choose Type to convert your Type layer into a regular image layer. Now, under Brush strokes, choose sprayed Strokes. Type 12 for stroke length, 7 for radius, and right diagonal for direction. Click Ok.
Step 5: Click the magic wand tool click. Click once in your first letter of your word, Then go under the Select menu and choose similar to select the rest of the letters. Under Select menu, choose Inverse, Now press delete to remove the little chunks of white space around the letter created by the brushed strokes filter.
Step 6: Go under the Select menu and choose inverse. Drag your text layer into the trash to delete it Press Apple+j to put the selected background area up on its own layer. In the layer palette, click once on the background layer. Press Apple+A, then press Apple+D to deselect.
Step 7: Click on your layer,text layer. Choose bevel and emboss from the layer styles menu at the bottom of the palette. When the dialog box appears, increase the depth to 400%, and decrease the depth to 4. Increase the highlight Opacity to 90%. From the left side of the layer style dialog box, click on the word drop shadow to bring up its options. Increase the size to 8, lower the opacity 50% and click Ok.
Step 8: Choose the lasso tool Make a thin selection in the center of each letter. Remeber to hold down the shift key. press Apple+C to copy. Add a new layer press Apple+V to paste. Change the layer mode from normal to Color Burn.
Step 9: Duplicate your new layer. Now duplicate your duplicated layer. Change the layer mode from color burn to Screen. Click on the the move tool. Press the right arrow key twice, the down arrow key once.