Wooden Text Effect in Photoshop

Preparations We will use an image of Krakograff texture and a wood texture that can be found on FreeFoto. Click here to download Krakograff texture. Click here to download the city image. All rights of these resources belong to their respective owners.     Step 1 – Setting Up Background Create a document of size 750 by 550px and place the texture image at the center of it. Go to Filter > Render > Lighting Effects. Fill in the settings shown in the diagram.     Step 2 – Adjusting Colors Create a new Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. Fill in 0 for Hue, -75 for Saturation and 0 for Lightness. Create another Levels Adjustment Layer and fill in the values 0, 0.60, 255.     Step 3 – Placing Your Texts The font I used in this tutorial is called Stencil. You can download it at Dafont with you have not got it. Type in your text at the center of the document. Try not to use small font sizes as we will be doing emboss effects later on.     Step 4a – Applying Texture I placed the wood texture on top of my "10". Ctrl+left click on the text to load selection. Apply a layer mask on the wood texture with this selection.     Step 4b – Applying Texture Similar to Step 4a, I reduce the size of the wood texture since "Steps.SG" is of a smaller font size. Ctrl+left click on the texts to laod selection. Apply a layer mask on the wood texture with this selection.     Step 5a – Apply Emboss Effects Right-click on the "10" and select choose Blending Options. Activate Bevel and Emboss and fill in the settings as shown. The colors used for Highlight Mode is #CEBE80 and Shadow is #000000.     Step 5b – Apply Emboss Effects Activate Inner Glow and fill in the settings as shown. Right-click on the "10" layer and choose Copy Layer Style. Then right-click on the "Steps.SG" and choose Paste Layer Style. The color used for Blend Mode is #2E2E00.     Step 5c – Apply Emboss Effects Change the Blend Mode of "Photoshop Tutorials" to Soft Light. You should be seeing something similar to the example.     Step 6 – Adding Border Create a new layer below all these texts. Load their selections and go to Select > Modify > Expand by 6 px. Fill the selection with #FFFFFF on the new layer. This shall form a white border around the texts.     Step 7a – Adding Pillow Emboss Right-click on the border layer and choose Blending Options. Activate Bevel and Emboss. Fill in the settings as shown in the diagram. The colors used for Highlight Mode is #DBC09C and Shadow is #000000.     Step 7b – Adding Pillow Emboss Activate the Inner Glow and fill in the settings as shown in the diagram. The color used for Blend Mode is #000000. Finally, set the Blend Mode of this border layer to Soft Light.     Optional There you have it! I have added a faded skull behind to complete the design. Hope you like this tutorial. Click here to view the final image.

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I am Johnson Koh, a graphic and web designer in Singapore. Founded 10Steps.SG in August 2008 with the purpose to share my experiments and interesting design news.

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102 Responses to “Wooden Text Effect in Photoshop”

1. Torben says:

   February 9, 2010 at 8:39 am

   cool tut! Thumbs up!!

   Step 4:

   Finally layer masks missed them in other tuts. You can make changes afterwards.

   Even more elegant here: cut masks (cut mask with the wood texture above the type layer)

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2. Adam K. says:

   February 2, 2010 at 11:43 pm

   Wow! Great effort dude! Learnt quit new things.

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3. Good Wood TEXT tutorial says:

   January 7, 2010 at 5:16 pm

   Very interesting tutorial about wood text and texture! Good job! Thanks

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4. Hugo says:

   January 4, 2010 at 6:05 pm

   Hey guys! Seems there is a new free font site out there called http://www.fonts2u.com.

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5. photo retouching says:

   January 4, 2010 at 4:25 am

   i always love to learn and know more about photoshop and photo retouching
   technics , great tutorial .. thanks for the post .

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6. Andy says:

   January 1, 2010 at 3:55 pm

   splendid effects. I am not good at photoshop but i try to at least keep up to date with the tuts like these.wish i had skills like you do.

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7. akai says:

   November 8, 2009 at 2:38 pm

   really thank, good tutorial

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8. just smile says:

   September 6, 2009 at 11:56 pm

   wounderful my dear.. I hope lucky future for you

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9. just smile says:

   September 6, 2009 at 11:55 pm

   wounderful my dear.. I hope lucky future

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10. Kaplang says:

    August 11, 2009 at 12:05 am

    going through your tutorial has really helped me, thanks really cool effect too.

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11. tabiji says:

    August 8, 2009 at 7:14 am

    I don’t think that looks good at all.

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12. Paulo Henrique says:

    June 25, 2009 at 8:59 am

    Dear Jonhson Koh, this is the link of post in my blog http://www.gparts.com.br/?p=353, hope you like.
    Thanks!

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13. Johnson Koh says:

    June 24, 2009 at 7:37 am

    @Paulo Henrique: Yes, you may translate this tutorial into your site with clear credit to 10Steps.SG. Drop me a link when you are done? Thanks!

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14. Paulo Henrique says:

    June 23, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    Hello, i have a site in brazilian portuguese about photoshop, you permit me translate in my site?
    Thanks.

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15. photo retouching says:

    May 11, 2009 at 12:52 am

    Great result. Please keep posting these amazing tuts.

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16. Chetan MAdaan says:

    May 2, 2009 at 12:29 am

    Thanks a Lot! this is Amazing!

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17. jessa says:

    April 9, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    ahmm sir how can you load new fonts???tnx

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18. majid says:

    March 13, 2009 at 5:12 am

    thank you my friend

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19. YASH RAI says:

    February 17, 2009 at 11:04 pm

    NICE WORK
    BUT
    WHERE IS PSD FILE……………..
    SEND ME………….
    AT ABCCOOLX@YAHOO.IN

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20. Joe says:

    February 13, 2009 at 12:46 am

    This one goes to our selection Great Job!
    Thanks!

    needtodesign.com

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21. Deepikapub says:

    February 7, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    Incredible tutorial.thnxs..

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22. stompyq says:

    January 22, 2009 at 5:59 am

    Outstanding tutorial. Agree with most of the posters your tutorials are very clear and very easy to follow. Keep up the good work!!

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23. wormaz says:

    January 19, 2009 at 4:54 pm

    Nice !
    Thanks very much !

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24. Sneak Design says:

    December 17, 2008 at 5:24 am

    Great tutorial

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25. Johnson says:

    December 15, 2008 at 8:48 am

    Hi Kel, you will need to open up the wooden texture and drag into your document as a layer above your texts.

    Then press CTRL+left click on the texts layer and you will get blinking dotted lines around your texts. This mean you have selected them.

    Once you got the selection, click on the Layer Mask button. It’s located at the bottom of Layers panel. Looks like a grey box with a white circle in the middle.

    Hope these helps

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26. Kel says:

    December 14, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    Hey! I didn’t get the procedure in Step 4a. Can you please elaborate it more. More details. I hate to say this but i’m just a beginner in Photoshop as in BEGINNER. Tnx a lote mate!

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27. Jufriadi says:

    December 13, 2008 at 2:21 am

    thx a lot

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28. ГЫ +) says:

    December 7, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    это круто)))))

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29. Johnson says:

    November 20, 2008 at 9:01 pm

    Thanks Ramiro!!! It’s interesting that Internet can bring all of us together so easily.

    Your words gave me lots of energy
    Hope you will continue to enjoy the stuffs here!

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30. Ramiro says:

    November 20, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    I´m from Argentina so i`m not speak good english but… i like say you… YOU ARE FANTASTIC!!! ^^, I LOVE YOURS TUTORIALS! Thanks ^^

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31. Johnson says:

    November 16, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    Hi Robin,
    You will need to create the new layer below your letters.
    If you have already done the whole Step 6, how about just re-arrange the white border below the letters?

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32. Robin says:

    November 15, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    Hey, I am trying to get the Step 6 – Adding Border:

    Create a new layer below all these texts.

    Load their selections and go to Select > Modify > Expand by 6 px.

    Fill the selection with #FFFFFF on the new layer. This shall form a white border around the texts.

    But it doesn’t seem to work properly ;/
    If I fill the selection with #FFFFFF on the new layer the insides of my letters get colored White aswell and not only the border that I selected I have no clue what I’m doing wrong I’ve tried everything so far.
    Could you help me out?

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33. ghawyy says:

    November 10, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    thanks its really great tut i was looking for some thing like that and i see ur tut are great and easy so much i will back gain for more nice tut thank you so much
    

    ghawyy

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34. Johnson says:

    October 31, 2008 at 8:42 am

    Great work David

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35. David says:

    October 31, 2008 at 8:31 am

    And also…. AWESOME END RESULT!!

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36. David says:

    October 31, 2008 at 8:28 am

    Thanks. =) Got it now.

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37. Johnson says:

    October 31, 2008 at 7:56 am

    Hi David, Here is how to create a layer mask in Step 4a.

    With the selection on, click on the texture layer and then click on the Layer Mask button shown below

    

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38. David says:

    October 31, 2008 at 4:16 am

    The layer mask stuff screws me up.

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39. David says:

    October 31, 2008 at 4:12 am

    I cant do it. You don’t explain how to do anything.

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40. Johnson says:

    October 23, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    I’m glad you guys enjoyed this tut. Thanks!

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41. jackgopher says:

    October 22, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    Beautiful and Easy.

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42. warchiLd says:

    October 14, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    amazing.. I will going to use this to one of my school work. but I’m going to change some to have my own style! haha

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43. Lefousteph says:

    October 6, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    Hi! Nice 1, I love the expand feature – I tried something similar, but didn’t know about that option so I ‘expand’ my text with the pen tool (much longer to say the least!)

    So thanks!

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44. Johnson says:

    October 1, 2008 at 7:29 am

    Hi mikki, It’s a great idea! Let me try to doing up a logo tut

    Hi Tadd, Thanks for featuring my site once again!

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45. Tadd says:

    September 30, 2008 at 9:25 pm

    This is a great tutorial. Very nice, easy to follow and great results.

    Keep up the great work!

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46. mikki2 says:

    September 28, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    Again, nice one!

    Can I make a request? Can you make some logo design tutorials? I’m trying to get into Logo Design and it’s seems your tutorials are the only ones on the whole internet that I can follow without hour-long problems(no joke). Just one or two will be okay…I’ll be able to take it form there.

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47. Johnson says:

    September 27, 2008 at 7:12 am

    Thanks Dainis again

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48. Dainis Graveris says:

    September 27, 2008 at 6:13 am

    Easy but great technique! )

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