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 box appears, click pantone 722 and click OK. Double click on the right color stop, this time choose pantone 732 and click OK. 

Step 2: In the bar click the redial gradient icon. Using this tool, click -and-drag from the center to the top  of the background layer. Go under the filter menu, under noise, and choose add noise. Enter 12% for amount, choose Gaussian, click Monochromatic, and click OK. 

Step 3: Then, go under the filter menu, under blur, and choose motion blur. Enter 33 degrees for angle and 10 for distance. Click OK. Now<>

Step 4: Type you text. Go under the layer menu, under rasterize, and choose type to convert your type layer to a regular  image layer. Now under brush strokes, choose sprayed strokes. Type 12 for stroke length, 7 for radius , and right diagonal for directions. Then click OK.

Step 5: Click the magic wand tool. 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 the select menu, choose inverse now, press delete to remove the chunks of white space around the letters created by the brush stroke 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 it own layer. In the layers palette, click once on the background layer. Press apple+A. Then press delete. Press apple+d to deselect.

Step 7: Click on your layer text layer. Choose bevel and emboss from the the layer styles menu at the bottom of the layers palette. When the dialog box appears, increase the depth to 400% and decrease the size 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 to 50% and click OK.
Step 8: Choose the lasso tool. Make a thin selection in the center of each letter. Remember to hold down the shift key. Press apple+ c to copy. Add a new layer press apple+v to paste. Change the layer made 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 move tool. Press the right arrow key twice and the down arrow key once.