Star Wars text effect

Tuesday, 02 June 2009 13:09

In this tutorial we will be working on a Star Wars text effect.

Step 1

Start with a new black document. Mine is 1024×768.

Step 2

Before you can do anything you will need the Star Wars Font. I found it on http://www.dafont.com/.

Now write you text. What I have in mind is to make a nice grunge text to use for a Clone Wars Poster.

Step 3

Double click on the layer to enter the Blending Options menu. Here use my settings:

Step 4

Next you need to duplicate the layer by clicking Ctrl + J. In the Blending Options Menu use these settings:

Step 5

Set the Fill of the layer to 0%.

Step 6

Next I will add some more text and place it on the bottom of the Clone Wars text. Also I will use some different settings:

Step 7

In the next step I will use the Rectangle Tool to make some simple shapes.

Step 8

Now for all these 3 shapes add my settings for the Blending Options.

Step 9

Make a new layer over all the layers and name it Gold.

Ctrl + Click on all the layer thumbnails to make a selection.

Step 10

Next go to Select - Modify - Expand and use 3 pixels.

Step 11

Make sure you have the Gold layer selected.

Set the foreground color to #fcff00 and fill the Gold layer with this color.

Step 12

Set the layer to Soft Light and Opacity to 35%.

Step 13

Make a new layer and name it texture.

Fill the layer with #7e4f2f. Next go to Filter - Noise - Add noise and use my settings.

Step 14

Next go to Filter - Blur - Motion Blur and again use my settings:

Step 15

Next you need to add one more effect to this texture. Go to Filter - Sharpen - Unsharp Mask and again use my settings:

Step 16

Ctrl + Click on the Gold layer thumbnail to make a selection. Now that the text is selected make sure you have the texture layer selected and Add a layer Mask. Last set the layer to Overlay.

Step 17

Next I will bring in a texture that I found on this link: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=599574

I have imported the texture to the document and resized it so it will fit into my image size. Next you need to go to Image - Adjustments - Desaturate to make the image Black and White.

Step 18

Again as we did with the first texture we need to make a selection of the text and Add a Mask to the layer. So please do that right now. Basically you will repeat Step 16 but this time for a different layer.

Step 19

The last thing we will do for this second texture is to set it to 63% Opacity and Overlay.

Final

You are finished. If you want you can add some more lights or shadows to the text.

Thank you for reading.