Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 under Text Effects

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Trasparent Text Effect, mixing with Fresh Grass Texture and Cloud Brushset. You can use the text effect in a wide range of occasions – such as website header background, part of a natural themed design, etc.

Along the way, I would like to show you my use of brushsets and the way I use them to draw background textures, then mixing the background texture with real-world object.

Some steps of this tutorial require the use of features available on CS4, but I guess there is always alternative way you can use, although the end effect may differ slightly.

Have a try :)

Here is a preview of the final effect I have for this tutorial: (click to enlarge)

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Ok let’s get started!

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Grass Texture

Cloud Brushset

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1000 * 600px, leave the background colour as White and create a new layer on top of it named “background texture”. Now let’s paint some background on it.

I decided instead of getting some ground/soil texture, using pure the default Photoshop brushsets can be fun and good for practicing some painting skills.

So grab those brushes as shown below:

1 brush1 500x448 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

The painting secret here is to try set the flow and opacity of the brush to a reletively low level, and try to mix all three brushsetss together and adjust the size of the brush when necessary, for maximum effect.

Here is what I have after the painting (You can see

1 paint 500x297 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

You can see I gave the centre of the image – where the grass and the text will sit, a dark colour then the rest of the image.

Step 2

This step is optional if you’re happy with result from previous step. Otherwise, we can do some lighting and colour adjustment for the background texture layer. Add the following two adjustment layers to the image:

Curves

2 curves Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Colour Balance

2 col bal Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

And we can add a new layer called “light top right” and grab this brushset below with white colour and paint some light rays from the top right: (remember also to set brush flow and opacity to low level)

2 brushset 500x351 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

And here is the effect I have after the painting:

2 effect 21 500x293 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

If you find it difficult to paint the background, you can download a copy of the background image here. Then import it into Photoshop. However I would suggest you have a try at least, it doesn’t matter if it didn’t turn as good.

Step 3

Load the “Grass Texture” image into Photoshop, use the Lasso Tool with 20px feather to select a portion as shown below, copy and paste a patch of the grass texture onto our document, resize and distort it if necessary:

3 copy paste 500x278 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Use the Eraser Tool with soft brush to erase the edge of the grass texture, as shown below:

3 erase 500x284 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Apply the Smart Sharpen Filter on the grass texture layer:

smart sharpen 499x313 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Add the following three adjustment layers to the grass texture layer (tick the “use previous layer to create layer mask” option)

Levels

3 levels Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Vibrance

3 vibrance Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Curves

And here is the effect so far:

3 effect 500x279 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Step 4

Now let’s type some text onto it. I used the “Myriad Pro” font but you can pretty much choose any bold font you like, type one letter on the canvas, on top of all previous layers:

4 type 500x293 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Apply the following blending optiono to this text layer:

General Blending

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Drop Shadow

4 drop sha 500x350 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Inner Glow

4 inner glow 500x350 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Bevel and Emboss

4 bevel 500x350 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

And here is the effect after apply those blending options:

4 effect2 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Duplicate this text layer and re-type each layer with a new letter, rotate and position them as shown below:

4 type layer 500x227 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Optional: duplicate each text layer to make the text bolder:

4 duplicate effect 500x227 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Step 5

Now we’re pretty much done with the text, let’s add some lighting effect.

Firstly create a new layer called “text highlight” with “Overlay” blendng mode just under the first text layer, and grab a round soft brush with white colour, set the flow and opacity to both around 50%, and paint to the area as shown below:

5 highlight texture 499x259 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Add another layer on top of the “text highlight” layer, and use the same brush as we used for the highlight layer, but with a dark colour, gently paint on the areas as shown below: (may have to adjust the brush size accordingly)

5 shadow 500x240 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Add another layer just under the grass texture layer, and paint some shadow under it:

5 grass shadow 499x262 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Add two more adjustment layer on top of all previous layers:

Vibrance

5 vibrance Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Curves

5 curves Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

And here is the effect so far:

5 effect 500x294 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

Step 6

Finally, we add the cloud on the top of the image by create a new layer on top of the new layer, and paint with the cloud brush set we downloaded:

5 cloud 500x163 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

And we add some shining dots around the text, by using a soft, round white brush:

5 dot 500x259 Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

OK that’s it for this tutorial! You can of course further enhance it by adding some more effect.

Here is my final result for this tutorial (Added some cracked texture under the grass, and some abstract lines)

Hope you enjoy this tutorial and find it useful. Have a great day!

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Dhaval Patel

Ok i think its a good turorial but not as detailed in step 1 and 2 if people don’t get the good beckround they are not going to have as good effect and some people like me are not good at painting stuff so you should may be add little more detail and add an alternative if u can’t draw! but overall good text effect
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Oh the tutorial is cool too
VAIO

@Dhaval
if you’re not good at painting like me, try saving this picture from this URL, http://www.psdvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/2-effect-21-500×293.jpg

import it on your photoshop, then resize. you can now proceed to step three.. i have done it myself and completed this tutorial but not as good as the author’s finished product.
James

@Dhaval Patel: I have uploaded a copy of the background image, link is at the end of Step 2.
Hope this helps!

And thank you VAIO for helping out!
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