Apr 17, 2012

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Design Abstract Surreal Text Effect with Metal Texture in Photoshop

OK Let’s get started!
To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Step 1

Create a new document sized 800px * 1040px with black background. Create a new layer and use the space brush to paint a background pattern, compress it down and set some perspective to it as shown below:
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Create a new layer and further add some space pattern, reduce the layer opacity to around 80% and use a soft eraser to erase the centre portion as shown below:
Hint: by performing the above two things, we added some depth to the image and get ready for adding the text in the following step.
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Let’s add some simple light effect – create a new layer and use a big white brush to paint a dot light as shown below:
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Use a soft eraser with smaller brush size than the dot light, erase the top right part of the dot as shown below:
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Duplicate this layer and rotate the duplicated layer 180 degrees, you will have the following effect:
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Step 2

We can now work on the letter. Type a letter on the centre of the canvas, as shown below:
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Load the “metal texture 1″ image into Photoshop. Then load this text layer selection and move it to the metal texture, copy and paste it back onto our text:
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Turn off the original text layer, and you will have the following effect:
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Open up the liquify filter, grab the forward warping tool and make sure you enable “Show Backdrop” and use the following setting: (this will make the background visible, easier to apply the liquify effect)
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Go crazy with the liquify tool, add some flowing effect around the text edges as shown below:
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Then erase the following area with the a soft eraser:
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Step 3

We can now apply some adjustments layers on the metal texture as clipping mask:
Black and White
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Levels
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Curves
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Then use the Lasso Tool with 30px feather, draw a selection on the following area:
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Then add another Levels adjustment layer as clipping mask: (this will darken the Lasso Selection)
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Render or paint some cloud (with cloud or smoke brush, plenty of them on the internet) around the text to add dramatic effect:
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Step 4

We can now add some small metal particles into the image – load the “metal texture 2″ image into Photoshop and use the quick selection tool to select a few small pieces on the image:
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Copy and paste the selection onto our document, erase the edges to blend those small pieces into the main text:
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Duplicate the selection a few times, attach them to different parts of the text, as shown below:
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Merge the duplicated layers and apply the following black and white adjustments to it:
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and here is the effect so far:
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You can also further duplicate this metal texture layer a few more times, resize them to small scale and move them around the text, as shown below:
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Step 5

To add some extra effect, I decided to use the Pen Tool to draw some red lines around the text. So let’s use the Pen Tool to draw a work path as shown below:
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Prior to stroking the path, go to the brush panel and set the brush size to 3px, hardness 95%, red colour as shown below:
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Then go back to select the Pen Tool, right-click and choose “Stroke Path”:
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Stroke this path with the following settings:
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and you will have the following effect:
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Duplicate this line layer a few more times and resize each duplicated layer and rotate them, attach the lines to different part of the text:
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You can also mix some yellow lines via adjusting the Colour Hue, in order to add some variety on the text:
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Step 6

OK we’re almost done! For some final retouches, we can flatten the image and apply the following Smart Sharpen filter to the image to sharpen the text a bit:
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To add some colour effect to image, I apply the following image adjustment layers to the image:
Selective Color
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6 sel white Design Abstract Surreal Text Effect with Metal Texture in Photoshop
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Curves
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Brightness and Contrast
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I then further added some slight colour adjustment and here is the final effect I have: (click to enlarge)
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That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy it and find it useful! Till next time, have a great day!





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