Creative Effects Challenge No. 185 - Wood Burning Effect

[Tom]

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Wood Brand Photoshop tutorial

The font I used was Partin

Marty's wood texture

I have placed the keyboard shortcuts in parenthesis.  FYI: the Ctrl-Delete combination didn't work if I used the numeric pad delete key.

1. Find an image of wood to use as your background layer
2. Set the background/foreground colors to the default white/black (D)
   
3. Select the Text Tool (T) and type out our text using a thick font
   
4. Reposition/resize the text to your liking
   
5. Duplicate the text layer (Ctrl+J)
   
6. Create a new blank layer between the two text layers (Ctrl-click the New Layer icon)
   
7. Fill the new layer with white (Ctrl-Delete)
   
8. Select the top layer and merge the top two layers (Ctrl+E)
   
9. You should now have 3 layers: text on white background, text on transparent, wood texture (see screenshot below)
   
   
   
   
10. Invert the top layer (Ctrl+I)
    
11. Go to Filter | Stylize | Wind... Method: Wind, Direction: From the Right, click OK
    
12. Repeat the same filter twice (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+F)
    
13. Go to Filter | Stylize | Wind... Method: Wind, Direction: From the Left, click OK
14. Repeat the same filter twice (Ctrl+F, Ctrl+F)
    
15. Invert the top layer (Ctrl+I)
    
16. Go to Filter | Blur | Gaussian Blur... Radius: 1 pixel, click OK
    
17. Go to Enhance | Adjust Lighting | Levels... (Ctrl+L), move the left Output Levels up to 70
    
18. Hide layer 2, then change the blend mode of layer 1 to Color Burn, Opacity: 60%
19. Create a new layer (click the New Layer icon)
20. Ctrl-click the thumbnail of the hidden layer to make a selection of the text
21. Go to Select | Feather... Feather Radius: 2 pixels
22. Fill the selection with black (Alt+Delete)
23. Deselect the selection (Ctrl+D)
24. Reduce the Opacity of the top layer to 40%
    

Note:

For my image I merged a line-art image with the text layer, then proceeded to step 5

Here is my wood-burning effect result: