Photoshop Tutorial: How to Make a Horrific, Gothic Text Image

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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for fans of Gothic images I'm going to

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show you how to make this horrific

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gothic looking warning to all who pass

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by I provided a Photoshop file for you

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to download so you can follow along it's

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link is located in the video's

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description or project files it includes

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this medieval looking wood background

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and this cracked painted metal texture

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the size is 1280 by 720 pixels with a

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resolution of 150 pixels per inch if

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your foreground and background colors

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aren't black and white respectively

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click on the small overlapping box icon

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or press the letter D on your keyboard

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open your horizontal type tool and

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choose a font I'm using a font called

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kaisi site goodish for which I included

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a link as well for this example I'm

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using a size of a hundred seventy seven

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points sharp left alignment and black

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for the color the color isn't important

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since we'll be replacing it soon with

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the cracked paint texture type out your

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text to reposition it click on your move

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tool and move it ctrl-click or command

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click on the thumbnail of your text to

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make it into a selection make the

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texture active and visible click on the

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layer mask button to make a layer mask

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of the selection next to the active

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layer click on the FX button and choose

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bevel and emboss the style is inner

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bevel the technique is chisel hard

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the depth is a hundred percent the

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direction is up the size is six pixels

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and the highlight opacity is a hundred

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percent click drop shadow make the

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distance nine pixels depending on the

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size of your text you may want to adjust

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the amounts we're setting in the layer

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styles next we'll add bloody streaks to

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the background ctrl-click or command

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click on the new layer button to make a

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new layer below the active layer hi the

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original text layer and the top layer

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will fill the empty layer with black and

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since black is the foreground color

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press alt or option + delete go to

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filter render and fibers make the

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variants 10 and the strength 15 if you

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don't like the way the particular fibers

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look in your window press randomized

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until you like one then click OK press

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ctrl or command L to open the levels

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window change the input white level to

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200 and click ok open your channels

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panel and click on this circular dotted

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icon to make a selection of all the

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tonal values of your image open back up

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your layers panel and drag the fiber

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layer to the trash since we now have its

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selection we need to invert it to do

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this press ctrl or command shift I click

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on the new layer button to make a new

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layer click on the foreground color and

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type in 8c 04 04 then click OK or press

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Enter or return press alt or option +

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delete to fill it with a foreground

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color to delete the selection press ctrl

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or command D

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change the blend mode to darken and the

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opacity to eighty percent make your

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texture text visible we want to hide the

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blood streaks everywhere but keep them

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below the text click on the layer mask

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button to make a layer mask next to the

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active layer open your brush tool and

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make the size a hundred pixels and the

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hardness 0% the blend mode is normal and

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the opacity is a hundred percent now

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brush over the streaks above the text to

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hide them brush over the sides as well

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to make your brush smaller press the

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left bracket key on your keyboard

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continue to brush away all the streaks

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but keep them below your text next we'll

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add some bloodstains to the text itself

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make a composite snapshot of your image

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by making your top layer active and

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pressing ctrl shift alt e' on a PC or

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command shift option II on a Mac let's

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brighten the overall image by pressing

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ctrl alt L on a PC or command option L

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on a Mac when this window pops up press

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Enter or return make a copy of it by

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pressing ctrl or command J go to your

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layer mask and press and hold alt on a

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PC or option on a Mac as you drag a copy

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of it next to the top layer click on the

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thumbnail to make it active and increase

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your brush size I'm increasing it to 100

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pixels depending on the size of your

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text you may want to adjust this number

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keep the hardness 0% change the blend

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mode to linear burn and the opacity

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eight to twenty percent now brush over a

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few areas of your text especially the

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darker rusted parts make a composite

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snapshot again and make a copy of it

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hide the copy and make the original

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composite snapshot layer active click on

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the adjustment layer button and choose

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levels reduce the output white 285 this

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darkens the entire image make the top

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layer visible and active open your

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elliptical marquee tool go to the top

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left corner and drag across a selection

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to the bottom right corner go to select

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and transform selection go to the top

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middle of the transform and when you see

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a vertical double-arrow press and hold

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shift + alt on a PC or Shift + option on

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a Mac as you drag it down this squeezes

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the transform in at the top and bottom

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so it's closer to your text to center it

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over your text press the up arrow key on

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your keyboard to move it straight up

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then press Enter or return go to select

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and refine edge there are seven view

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modes from which to choose i'm using the

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on black mode feather your selection to

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an amount you like for this example I'll

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feather it to 70 pixels output it as a

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layer mask then click OK this is Marty

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from Blue Lightning TV thanks for

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watching

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you