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Create Cold Winter Night Text Effect in Photoshop

By James QuDecember 18, 20244 Mins Read
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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this interesting cold winter night text effect in Photoshop. We will go through some texturing techniques, as well as an interesting method of creating break-apart effect. We will also use image adjustment layers to fine-tune the final effect.

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:

Background

Tree Stock 1

Tree Stock 2

Step 1

Create a new document sized 720px * 1019px with black background. We will begin working on the background image.

Select the following image from the Background pack you’ve downloaded, copy and paste it over to our document:

Use a soft eraser to remove the following area from this layer:

Add the following image adjustment layers on top:

Black and White

Levels

Curves

and you will have the following effect so far:

Step 2

We will add a dying tree into the image in step 2. Load the tree stock 1 image into Photoshop and use the quick selection/magic wand tool to select the tree as shown below:

Copy and paste the selection over to our document, resize and position it to the bottom of the canvas:

Add the following image adjustment layers as clipping masks to this tree layer:

Black and White

Levels

Layer mask on the leves adjustment layer:

Curves

Layer mask on the curves adjustment layer:

and you will have the following effect so far:

Step 3

We will add some flying tree branches around the canvas to add some motions into our image. To do this, we can group all the tree layers from step 2 into a folder, duplicate this folder to merge the folder content. Then use the eraser tool to break the trees apart, as shown below:

We want to add them to both side of the canvas, as shown below:

Let’s start working on the text. Use any font you like, type some texts vertically onto the canvas as shown below:

Load the “tree stock 2” image into Photoshop. Select the text layer and move the selection to the tree stock image as shown below:

Copy and paste the selection over to our document, you will see the tree texture cover the text layer as shown below:

Make sure you hide the original text layer after pasting the texture.

Step 4

We will add some layer blending options for this new text layer we created in step 3:

Bevel and Emboss

Gradient Overlay

Add the following image adjustment layers as clipping masks to this text layer:

Black and White

Levels

Curves

and you will have the following effect:

Step 5

We will work creating some break apart effect for our text. To do this, we use the same method as we did in step 3 – group all the text layers we created in step 3 and 4 into a folder, merge the contents in this folder, then use a eraser tool to break text apart, as shown below:

Resize this layer to a smaller scale:

Duplicate and scatter the layer around the canvas:

Use a cloud/smoke brush to paint some cloud around the text:

Step 6

We’re almost done! For final touches, we can use a particle brush to paint some particle effect around the tree:

We can add a colour balance adjustment layer on top to add a cold effect for our text:

and here is my final effect: (click to enlarge)

That’s it for this tutorial! Hope you enjoy going through it and find it useful. Drop me a comment below if you have any question.

Till next time, have a great day!

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James is a seasoned Photoshop expert with over 25 years of experience, mastering the software since its 5.0 version. As the driving force behind PSD Vault, he authors the majority of its in-depth tutorials and insightful articles.

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