Colorful Typography

Tutorial in Basics, Drawing, Effects, In Text

As the title points out, the idea of the tutorial is to create some sort of poster with a colorful typography. I worked with this effect once, and the customer was very satisfied. You will make it in a few steps. I will provide you with 2 images: one for the texture and the other one to the text background.

Let’s download the images, click HERE and then open it in Photoshop.

Create a ((New Layer)).

With ((Rectangular Marquee Tool)), trace a selection as the one you see below and fill it in with color #623812.

Duplicate the brown bar layer (Ctrl + J).

Double click the layer to apply ((Color Overlay)).

Accept the changes.

Duplicate the layer until you have 4 different bars of different colors.

Use these colors #005524, #750400, #ffbe02, #c0c5be.

Select all the bars and press Ctrl + E to unify them in an independent layer.

Now select ((Burn Tool)) with the values that you see in the image below to apply some shades to the center and sides of the bars.

Let’s write the text. As you will notice, I used DesignOwners’ capital letters. I used the font Anja Eliane accent. If you don’t have it, use another one. It must have thick contours, which is very important for the effect to be perfect.

Rasterize the text. ((Layer))-((Rasterize))-((Type)).

For the next step, download the following IMAGE.

Open the image in Photoshop and copy it in the document. Since it is very big, reduce it (Free Transform – Ctrl + T) to the font size. Ctrl + Click the text layer to activate the selection, then invert it. Go to ((Select))-((Inverse)). Check out: