So anyway, thanks, guys, for checking out this tutorial, don’t forget, leave a comment.
It gives an example of every single Blending Mode and also a bunch of places where it could be used. G rab the free Layer Blending modes ebook here! (200,000 downloads so far! Yay!) And because of that, I’ve actually created a free e-book for you. Now notice that the Blending Modes play a big part in making this look realistic and there’s a ton of things you can do with Layer Blending Modes.
So, anyway, that’s a really simple little tutorial there on how to add Type and make it look a lot more realistic. Turn the Opacity all the way up to 100 and give it a little bit of Distance and see how that gives it that kind of chiseled in look.Ĭhange the angle and you can see it starts to look like it’s chiseled into the wood. With the type layer selected, click on the little “fx” at the bottom of the layers panel to add a layer style. There’s another thing we can do to make it look like it was seared in there a little bit and it’s got a little bit of a depth, like maybe they used a hot brand or something like that.
Tip: You can download brushes from places like Brusheezy or DeviantArt and stuff like that, and you could find some custom brushes that would actually do a much better job of this.(Maybe I’ll add some to PhotoshopCAFE soon). Now I’m not going to get too carried away because I don’t want it to be too beaten up and distressed, but you get the general idea. When you paint with black on the mask, You are just of nibbling at those edges a little bit to create a little bit more of a distressed look.Īnd this is also what you would do if you wanted to just create basic distressed type. Select append from the options that appear.
Now, you can load in different types of brushes from the list that appears. You’ll see, dry medium brushes, choose them. If you look at the top options bar, click the brush in the top left. Make sure Opacity is all the way to 100 and Blend Mode is in Normal. Press the D key to Choose black as a foreground color. (The rectangle icon with the circle in it) Step 8Ĭreate a Layer Mask on the type layer, by selecting the type layer and clicking the Layer Mask button in the bottom of the Layers panel. For extra realism, read on! Xtra Credit: Upping the realism of Photoshop text with rough edges and an embossed look. That’s working pretty well, Now we can see the wood texture coming through the text, and it doesn’t look just stuck there anymore. ( Download my free ebook on Layer blending modes to fully understand them).Ĭhange the blending mode to Overlay Blend Mode. On the top of the Layers panel you will see the word “normal” this is the layer blending mode. The last thing we need to do is blend the type into the texture, we’re going to change the Blend Mode. Pull down on the edges to make it look like it’s following the contour. Tip: With the Warp Tool, you can click on the points OR you can drag inside the mesh to make it work.īlending the texture into the type in photoshop Grab the middle part and pull it down a little bit, so it’s just kind of bulging a little bit more in the middle.
Right click and choose Warp because it enables us to match curves and it works nicely on rounded surfaces. (Now we don’t have to rasterize the type to use warp, but some of the other things we are going to do, we will need the type rasterized). This will convert it to pixels so that we can distort those pixels. Right click on the type layer In the Layers panel and then choose Rasterize Type.
Hey Cafe Crew, it’s Colin Smith here and this week, I’m going to show you how to add some text to this barrel that make it look realistic like it was kind of engraved in there. How to Add Realistic Text to a Photo in Adobe Photoshop. Thanks for checking out this week’s tutorial. How to use blending modes to add realism.You will learn several things here including: This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to add type so that it loooks like it’s part of the photo.