Go ahead and open your image in Photoshop, then press the letter T on your keyboard to quickly access the Type tool, choose your font and font size in the Options bar at the top of the screen and add some text above your image. Let's get started!ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Step 1: Open Your Image In Photoshop And Add Some Text This Advanced Blending tutorial is from our Photo Effects collection. But with a little help from the "Blend If" sliders, we can make it look more like this: Right now, it looks like, well, text in front of a brick wall. Here's the image I'm going to be starting with, a simple photo of a rather grungy looking brick wall with some text that I've added over top of it: We're going to be using them here to make some simple text look as if it was written on the wall behind it, but you can use them to blend any two images together for both realistic or creative effects, and as we'll see in this tutorial, using them is as easy as dragging a couple of sliders left and right. Don't let the word "advanced" scare you off, they're really very easy to use and lots of fun, and not only can they give you much better blending results than anything you could get using the standard layer blend modes, they also give you a lot more control. The idea here was just to create a nice chalkboard effect using Photoshop and Illustrator.In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, we're going to take a look at some of Photoshop's more advanced blending options, specifically the "Blend If" sliders. Duplicate the layer again and change the Blend Mode to Screen.Īdd your logo in the end and if you want you to add some noise and using adjustment layers reduce the contrast. After that change the Blend Mode to Soft Light at 50%. Merge the duplicated layers into one and then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. After that change the Blend Mode of the layer with layer styles to Dissolve. Here is the effect you might have after these steps. The idea of these 2 layer styles is to create a sort of chalk effect. Use the image below for the values.Īfter that select Drop Shadow. With the other layer with the 2013 graphic on top of the other layers, go to Layer>Layer Style>Outer Glow. Use 67 for the Direction Balance, 9 for the Stroke Length and 5 for the Sharpness.Īdd a mask and then with the Brush Tool (B) using a textured brush, paint with 30% black on the mask to make the white less uniform. Go to Filter>Filter Gallery>Angled Stroke. After that duplicate the 2013 graphic and merge it with the black background.Ĭhange the Blend Mode of the merged object to Lighter Color. Also, add a layer and fill it with black. After that search for a blackboard image to place as the background of your design.Ĭopy the graphic you created in Illustrator and paste it in Photoshop. The last thing to do is to add the final details like swirls at the end of most of the ornaments. You can duplicate the same ornament a few times and connect them.Īdd more ornaments until you few you have a balanced composition. Remember to always make the transition of these ornaments as smooth as possible. Start adding ornaments trying to match the letter design, in this case, the numbers. The file is title Set of vector graphic elements for design by iana. There are several places you can download ornaments, the ones I am using are courtesy of Shutterstock. I am using a free font called Pistilli Roman, you can download it at With the Type Tool (T) add the text 2013. Open Adobe Illustrator and create a new document. The whole process is simple but time-consuming, so I would take at least 3 hours to recreate this design. So in this tutorial, we will try to create stylish ornament typography and then apply a chalkboard effect using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and some vector ornaments. The inspiration for this image was, of course, from one of the trends of 2012: chalkboard typography with ornaments. We are heading to the last weeks of 2012 and nothing better than getting ready for the new year with a Photoshop tutorial playing with the number 2013.
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