Cracked Paint Wood Text Effect | Photoshop Tutorial with Free Textures

Learn a few quick and easy techniques for using textures in Adobe Photoshop to create custom weathered paint text or logos. Free texture links and more listed below. Thanks for watching and please leave your comments or questions below!
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@9:25 Actually, Displace does not need to reference a seperate file. It can reference itself. The way it works is that Displace always references a file's saved state. I keep a copy of the desired displacement map as the top most layer in my comp, usually hidden. Just before running the displace filter, I turn on the top layer and save the project (Command S :). I then turn it back off and apply Displace to my layer of choice. When the filter prompts for a file to use, select the file you currently are working on. Is that clear? One upside to this technique is that you get a good visual on how your map aligns with the layer being displaced. Not at all the same guessing game as when referencing an external file.

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Very cool... I really appreciate the comment. Got some cool ideas coming along here for more videos, I've just gotta find some time to record!

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i have never thought to use blend if that way before... thank you!

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Cool, kind of found that by accident by I now use it all the time!

[@quazillionaire]

This is awesome! I used it to get an "old-paint-on-wooden-crate" effect. Thank you!

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Awesome, the lettering stuff is my favorite to explore. So... more on the way. Thanks Janice!!

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Thats awesome thank you man!

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As an old PS user, I wasn't so keen on using groups. I thought it was only for organizing purposes. But as I see is more like the precompose function in After Effects, and that is very very interesting... Thanks so much for this excellent tutorial.

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The isolation of effects via. groups...I kind of knew, but not like this...very helpful

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Beautiful!👌Especially the final step..! Thank you.. 🙏

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I’m from Sioux Falls and wasn’t expecting to see that used lol

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doubleclick layer to bring up blending options. excellent tutorial as always.

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Just FYI need to save your displace in 8 bit to utilize it. Looooove this tutorial.

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My pleasure, thanks for the comment!

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[@PrinceWesterburg]

And you didn't point out at the end; Its all still live, you can still change the text! This'll save me days an days of time Correction: This would have saved me... S'funny how we play with things in PhotoShop, like Blend If, then don't look at them for 25 years and forget they're there.

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Love it

Nice!

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"Don't cross the streams" -- Er, sliders.

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Big fan of your channel, thanks for the great tutorials! this one looks great but I had a quick question. I started trying it by following your tutorial video, but I got stumped at one point because my logo I was using is multicolored. Does this only work for a solid color logo/image?

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Muchas gracias.

[@louisbasso9830]

I have tried and tried and tried to follow this tutorial when I get to copy layer style it is not available. It must be me because everyone else seems able to follow this, wish that I could. Don't know how to proceed!

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NOICE!!

[@Lgg130]

I have an issue with text in my Photoshop.. everytime I add dropshadows or anything at an angle and depth that leaves the format lines of the text, they are simply cut off. I guess rasterizing the text beforehand would do the trick (haven't tried) but I'd like to be able to fix this on live text. Anyone else with same issue?

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Any Illustrator tuts in the future?

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I think so, hope so... would love to get into After effects as well. Need more hours in the day!

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Also is the instructors screen blurry to everyone else or is it just me?

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