In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to create unusual text in the form of bamboo.
This is what you should get:
This effect looks great on the brochure of a travel agency! Is not it?
Attention: This lesson requires Adobe Photoshop version to be CS or CS2.
Step 1:
Create a new document, for example 400×400. Fill the background with black.
Step 2:
Create a new layer (click CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + N).
Take the tool – a rectangular selection (
) and make the same selection as in the screenshot:
Fill the selection with black.
Click CTRL + D to remove the selection.
Double-click the wand layer to open the Add Styles window. Add the following styles with the options as below:
Bevel Emboss (Volume):
Fill texture:
Result:
Step 3:
Duplicate this layer by clicking CTRL + J.
Press a letter ‘V’ to trigger the move tool (
) and place the copied layer next to the old one, but move it down a bit (see screenshot):
Step 4:
Create a new layer (click CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + N).
Select the Lasso Tool (
), and make a selection as shown below.
Fill this selection with black.
Deselect (CTRL + D)
Step 5:
Double-click on the layer to open the Add Styles window. Fill it with a gradient with the parameters as shown below:
Result:
Step 6:
Click CTRL + J to duplicate the layer. Choose a travel tool and place the copied layer as shown below.
Repeat this process twice and place these two little rings on the other end of the sticks:
Select and merge all layers except background.
Step 7:
Click CTRL + J a couple of times to copy a bunch of bamboo and place using the displacement tool as shown in the screenshot.
Step 8:
Once again, merge all these layers together, as we did in step # 6.
One straight bundle of bamboo leave for further work and call it a “straight bundle”
Click CTRL + J to duplicate the layer.
Click CTRL + T to cause the tool to move freely.
Right-click on the frame and select ‘Warp’:
Users of older versions can achieve this effect by turning to the menu. Filter> Distort> Shear, there to experiment with the settings.
Move the nodes (small squares) so that the bamboo will bend as follows:
When the form suits you, click ENTER to complete the transformation.
Using the displacement tool, place the curved bamboo in its proper place:
Step 9:
Click CTRL + J to duplicate the layer. Refer to the menu Edit-> Transform-> Flip Horizontal.
Change layer blending mode to “Overlay”:
Put a new layer in the right place.
Step 10:
Duplicate the “direct bundle” layer – click on the layer window and click CTRL + J.
Refer to the menu Edit-> Transform-> Rotate 90 °
Change layer blending mode to “Linear Dodge”:
Place this layer at the top to get the shape of the letter “T”.
Step 11:
In the same way create the other letters of your word.
Just copy the “straight beam” and bend it as needed.
Step 12:
Select and merge all layers.
Click CTRL + U to open the color / saturation window HUE / SATURATION and apply these settings:
Make sure the checkbox is in the box Colorize
Result:
Step 13:
Double-click on the layer to open the Add Styles window. Apply the following styles:
Outer Glow:
Bevel Emboss (Volume):
Result:
Step 14 is the last one:
Duplicate this layer and change the layer blending mode to “Color Dodge”, to give the effect more depth:
Here’s what we got:
You may have to try over the first letter, but the next ones will surely go like clockwork.
Good luck!
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