How to create the fur effect for text or
shapes in photoshop that's the topic we are going to talk about today
Here I’m going to show you the simple basic technique how to apply the fur effect on your
text or shapes and once you get the technique you can apply this effect to any texture or any shape
you desire. So, alright so here we have to white texture background and then I have this texture,
fur texture here so I’m going to click the text tool and I’m going to type a single letter T
go to edit and transform it nice and big
now I’m going to press ctrl or command from the keyboard and click on the text layer
and then you get this nice selection of the text. I’m going to turn off this text layer now and I
have this nice selection I select the fur texture layer and I click on this mask icon now you can
see the fur into these T shapes now I’m going to press B from the keyboard to select the brush
and here you need to go to if you're using the newer version of photoshop, you need to go to
setting a small icon, just click on it and then go to legacy brushes so what it does? it will
load the legacy brush from the photoshop and if you are using the older version of photoshop
you already have these brushes in the brushes panel by default. So,
I’m going to press ok and I drag it down and here I see this legacy brush panel so I
open this panel and here I’m looking for go to default brushes here I’m looking for a specific
brush which help me create that fur effect so drag it down and you see there is a brush there
this one Dune glass so select this one so let me create a new layer to show you how this brush
works I’m going to turn off this layer Off now let me show you how this brush basically works. so if
I start painting here you can see how this brush is basically working it's basically a mixture of
white and black colour so basically what it's doing is taking colour from the foreground and
the background and it's mixing up together and creating a nice glass effect so if you click on
this brush setting you will see all those settings related to brush into this panel so in my case I
am getting two colours from this brush and I only need one colour. So, what I will do? I will turn
off this colour dynamics option so what it will do now let me remove this one and create new layer.
So, if i paint now you see I’m only getting a single colour and this is what I want. So,
brush is selected, colour is selected what's next? Now if I turn on my original layer if I select the
mask and paint on it you will see we are getting that nice fur effect but the brush is too big so
in order to reduce the size of the brush we click on this panel and here you can reduce the size.
Okay, we are happy with the size now so if I paint on the top make sure you select this mask. So, if
I paint on the top you’ll see we are getting this nice effect but the problem here is we are having
different angles of the fur it's not constant in one angle so some of the hairs going on that way
and some of the hairs are going in different direction so we need to change our brush direction
according to fur so how do we do that? So, if you click on this brush panel right
here, you can see click on this brush tip and here you will see the direction and size of the brush
so how do we change the direction so if you click on this icon and go to now this is the size of the
brush and here you can flip it, you can increase the size a bit, you see I can flip it here we go
you see now the brush is flipped and you can unflip it like this way let me press ctrl z
and same thing go with the other vertical so you can flip it horizontal and you can flip
it vertical. So, I know I’m going to decrease the size this is too small increase it a bit
yeah that should be fine put the spacing between three to five percent and close this panel
select the mask and now I'm going to paste with this brush on the mask
you see that we are getting the nice direction of the fun out of the text and that's how we want it
to be and if you want to make it more thicker you can paint into that area again now there's
one problem here you need to keep changing the traction of the brush depending on the fur so what
can we do about it so if you click on this brush settings and click on the shape that dynamics and
click on this angle jitter control click on this one and click on the directions now what happens
when you paint on it the brush direction will change accordingly now if I paint with my brush
you see what happens now you can see the direction of my brush but when I paint it will get changed
here we go here you see how what is happening here? so the brush is changing the direction
by itself if you want to do that manually this is how it works but if you want to let photoshop do
it for you let me show you how it works. So, I'm going to press ctrl z all the way back to where
it was, sorry, now we are back to square one so we go down for the text here now what I’m going
to do? I'm going to press ctrl or command from the keyboard and click on this mask so I get
this nice selection there if I turn this layer off you can see that's the selection I have
so what I will do? I go to this path panel if you can't see the path here you can go to window
and the path should be this is a path, so you can select the path from there and in the path panel
with the selection you click on this icon so what it will do it will create the path for you
now you see the path has been created now go back to the layers and make sure you select the mask
note the layer, make sure you select the mask these white lines should be on the mask that's
mean the mask is selected now select the pen tool from the side and right click on the path
and here you can select the stoke path and from this drop down menu you have to select the brush
and press ok you see what it done? so basically photoshop has applied all those affects that
we have selected from the brush panel onto the edges of the mask over the path we have selected
so now you get the idea how this process works! So, let me open another example for you to create
this effect into a new file so in this example we have go our background layer and then we
have three different layers of fur and then we have our text on the top so I’m going to press
ctrl / command from the keyboard and click on this text or T icon and I get the selection of the text
so I'm going to turn off that as text layer and select the fur layer and click on the mask icon
and now you see our fur mask has been created now what I’m going to do? I'm going to apply the same
technique what we just learned. So, I'm going to press ctrl and get another selection by pressing
ctrl or command from the keyboard and click on the text we have both the selection and we go to path
and then we click on this icon and we have got the path there. So, what I’m going to do now I’m going
to press P to select the pen tool and right click on the path and then I click on the stoke path
now here's one thing you need to keep in mind the settings we have applied we need to select those
settings all the time whenever we need to apply this technique so you need to set the size of the
brush, directions, turn off the dynamics and pick up the relevant brush so when you have selected
all those things then you apply this technique and it will apply according to what we are looking
for. So, I'm going to select brush from here and then press ok and BOOM. we have created this
nice fur effect so I'm going to remove this path by pressing escape from the keyboard twice
and we have this nice fun layer now if I double click on this layer and go to
layer style and click on the stroke, shadow and we got this nice drop shadow here
now we are going to apply these effects to make this text more nice or realistic
and I play it aroud with it then i add some emboss and bevel with it, after a few tweaks of late
style I have come up with this final fun effect so that's it guys! I hope this tutorial will help you
in some way and if you have any questions feel free to drop the line in the comment section
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