burnt wood text effect - photoshop tutorial

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Burnt Wood Text Effect Photoshop

Tutorial

Posted by Chris Thurmanon Mar 2nd

In this photoshop text effect tutorial well be creating a grungy,

burnt wood text treatment. Well go over some basic blendingmodes and use some filters and layer styles to create a look that

would be perfect for a Hollywood movie poster.

In this photoshop text effect tutorialwell be creating a grungy, burnt wood text treatment. Well go over

some basic blending modes and use some filters and layer styles to create a look that would be perfect for

a Hollywood movie poster .

Looking for more photoshop text effects? Check out this Graffiti Text Effect Tutorial

Final Image Preview

Our finished product will be a nice burnt wood text treatment cleared out of a charred and smokey piece ofaged wood.
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Gathering Materials

Just a couple of downloads required for this tutorial. And theyre both free:

Wood textureby Beyond-Oddities (available at Deviant Art)

Rough Edges brush packfrom Brusheezy

Step 1

The first thing we need is the background texture. Im using a roughed up wood imagecreated by Beyond-

Oddities. Open the texture in photoshop. I resized my texture to 1200800 for a more manageable file size.
http://beyond-oddities.deviantart.com/art/Local-Texture-Three-by-One-77137822http://www.brusheezy.com/brush/639-Rough-Edgeshttp://beyond-oddities.deviantart.com/art/Local-Texture-Three-by-One-77137822http://vvb961nrfaq3b2ysa1aohurk7.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/step19.jpg


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Were going to work our way from the outside inwards. Lets first create the singed effect surrounding the

actual text. Command+Click the Text Layer to Make a selection of the outline of the text.

Step 4

From the Select Menu choose Modify > Expand. Expand the selection by 25px.


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Step 5

Create a new layer (singed) with this layer selected fill the selection with a dark gray (#222222). This will

be used for the singed area around the burn text.

Step 6

Now we need to bring some life to the singe with a few filters. First clear the selection by pressing

Command+D. With the singed layer selected, choose Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Add a 1.8 Radius

Gaussian Blur. This will help take away the hard edge.


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Step 7

Next we need to add some variation with a wind effect. With the singed layer still selected, choose Filter >

Stylize > Wind. Set the direction to from the left.


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Step 8

Apply the same filter, this time with the direction from the right. Now we have a nice grainy look to

complement the burnt text.


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Step 9

Change the blending mode of the singe layer to Color Burn and set the opacity to 30%. We just want the

hint of burning.


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Step 10

Now lets focus on the main text. Change the blending mode of your text layer to multiply. Now you can start

to see our burn effect.


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Step 11

Lets add an inner glow to emphasize the burn. Double click the layer to bring up the layer styles. Select

inner glow and apply the following settings:

Blend Mode: Multiply

Opacity: 60%Color: #111111

Size: 21px

Step 12

Now weve got nice burned in text but it still looks to clean. Were going to add some textured roughness to

the edges. Add a vector mask to the text layer by clicking on the add vector mask at the bottom of the

layer panel.


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Step 13Download and open the Rough Edges brush setfrom Brusheezy.
http://www.brusheezy.com/brush/639-Rough-Edges


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Step 14

Choose the 433 horizontal brush. With the layer mask selected and black set as your primary color,

roughen up the edges of the text.


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Step 15Rotate the brush and continue around the edges until you have a nice roughed up burn.


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Step 16

Lets finish up by adding a charred effect to the background. Set your foreground color to black and your

background color to white. Create a new layer called charred. Go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Set the

blending mode of this new layer to Multiply.
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Step 17

With the charred layer selected, grab a large, roughed up eraser and clean up the area around the text.


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Step 18

Lets make the entire image pop. Create a new Levels adjustment layer (Layer > Adjustment Layer >

Levels). Set the Black input level to 15 and the white input level to 223.


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Final Image

And were done. A smokey burnt text treatment ready for your next project. I hope you enjoyed this tutorialand maybe picked up a technique or two. Let me know what you think in the comments below.


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