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Texturized Text
Creating textured or patterned text can be a great way to liven up the text on your website or art project. The become especially useful in the design of logos when you want to throw in that extra something to make it shine. In this tutorial, we'll step through the process of creating text that is made up of a texture or pattern image.
Step-by-Step Instructions:
1. Open up a new document in Photoshop. Make the background white.
2. Copy and paste your texture image into a new layer over the white background. Call this layer "Image".
3. Using the text tool, type anything you want. In this example, we'll type the tutorial, we'll type the word "Texturized". (Use a color for your text that easy to see over the textured background. If the texture is dark, then I typically use white. If the texture is light, then I typically use white.)
Once you finish typing, this will automatically create a new Type layer.
5. Select the Magic Wand tool.
6. With the Type layer active, click the Magic Wand on any area that isn't text.
7. Click the "Layer Visibility Icon" for the Type layer to turn it off (see image below).
8. Now select the background layer so that it is the active layer.
9. Click the Delete key.
10. Click CTRL+D to remove the selection.
11. Right click the "Image" layer, choose "Blending Options" from the pop-up list.
12. When the Blending Options pop-up appears, click the checkboxes for "Drop Shadow" and a "Bevel & Emboss". Adjust the sliders and values under their properties until you get the shadow and bevel effect that you like best. (Use the preview as a guide to help you).
13. You should now have your texturized text.
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