This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
I'm going to show you how to create the look of dramatic carved text in a marble wall.
I provided this marble texture that you can download.
Its link is in my video's description or project files.
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The first step is to make a copy of the texture by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and Type Picker.
Pick a font from your list.
I'm using "Selznick Normal NF Regular".
If you'd like to use it, I provided its link, as well.
I'm using a size of 275 points.
Keep in mind, the effect will look best if your text is relatively large.
I'll choose center alignment and black for its color, so we can see the text easily.
Click on the document and type out your text.
If you want to adjust the spacing between a few of the characters, click between two
characters and press and hold Alt or Option as you press the right or left arrow key on your keyboard.
We'll place our text in the exact center of the document by opening our Move Tool and
pressing Ctrl or Cmd + A to select it.
Click the Align Horizontal Centers icon and the Align Vertical Centers icon.
Then, deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D. Temporarily hide "Layer 1" and make the
bottom layer active.
We'll make a new layer above it by clicking the New Layer icon.
In this layer, we'll create a frame that'll surround our text.
Open your Rectangle Tool and click "Shape".
Open the Fill list and if the "No Fill" icon isn't active, click it.
This essentially makes the shape itself have no color.
Click the "Stroke" icon and pick black for its color.
Open the Stroke Options window and choose a solid line for the stroke.
Open the "Align" list and choose the bottom option, which aligns the stroke along the
outside of the path of the shape.
Open the Caps list and choose the "Butt Cap".
This creates squared ends that stop at the endpoints.
Open the Corners list and choose "Miter".
This creates pointed corners that extend beyond the endpoint.
Go to View.
If Rulers and Snap aren't checked, click them to make them active.
Go to the top ruler and drag a guide line to the bottom of your text.
Go back to the top ruler and drag another one to the top of the top of the flat letters.
Go the left ruler a drag a guide line flush to the left side of the first character.
Drag another one flush to the right side of the last character.
Go to a corner and when it snaps to it, drag the tool to the opposite corner until it snaps to it as well.
Go to the top and in the Stroke Radius field, type in 75 pixels.
Hide the guide lines by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + H. Reduce the "Fill" to 0%.
This removes all color from the frame, but it'll retain the visibility of the Layer Styles
we add to it.
Double-click an empty area of the frame layer to open its Layer Style window.
Click "Bevel & Emboss".
The Style is "Inner Bevel", the Technique is Chisel Soft and the Depth is 100%.
The Direction is Up, the Size is 4 pixels and the Soften is 3 pixels.
The Angle is 130 degrees, the Altitude is 50 degrees, and the Gloss Contour is linear.
The Highlight Mode is Linear Dodge, the color is white, and the opacity is 20%.
The Shadow Mode is Linear Burn, the color is black, and the opacity is 70%.
Make your text layer active and reduce its fill to 0%, as well.
Double-click an empty area of the layer to open its Layer Style window.
I'll move it over, so we can see more of our text.
All the properties are the same as he have for the frame, except the bevel size is 130
pixels and the Soften is 0 pixels.
Also, make the Highlight opacity 10%.
Next, if our text is extending into the frame itself, we'll mask out those areas.
To do this, Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the thumbnail of the frame to make a selection of its inside area.
Click the Layer Mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the active layer,
which is our text.
Next, we'll add deep shadows cast from the frame and the text.
Make the marble texture above the frame visible and active.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the layer mask to make a selection of it.
Alt+ Ctrl-click or Option + Cmd-click the large "T" of the text layer to subtract the
shape of the text from the selection.
You'll notice that when you do this, you'll see a minus sign inside a box.
Click the Layer mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the active layer.
Double-click the marble layer to open its Layer Style window.
Click Inner Shadow".
The Blend Mode is Linear Light, the color is black and the opacity is 35%.
The Angle is 135 degrees, the Distance is 50 pixels, the Choke is 0, the Size is 14
pixels and the Contour is linear.
Click the "plus" icon next to it to add another inner shadow.
Change the opacity to 10%, the Distance to 30 pixels and the size to 20 pixels.
Make another inner shadow and this time, make the distance: 20 pixels.
Next, we'll add a dramatic light source.
Make the top layer visible and active.
Above it, we'll make a composite snapshot of our visible image by pressing Alt + Ctrl
+Shift + E on Windows or Option + Cmd + Shift + E on a Mac.
Make a copy of it and hide the copy.
Make the layer below it active and click the Adjustment layer icon.
Click "Levels".
We want to restrict it to affect just the composite snapshot directly below it.
However, since adjustment layers affect ALL the layers below them, we'll need to make
it into a clipping mask.
To do this, just click the clipping mask icon or go to Layer and "Create Clipping Mask".
If your Properties panel is partially hidden, just drag it down.
Make the Shadow Input: 50, the Midtone Input: point five and the Highlight input: 250.
Make the Highlight output: 90.
Make the top layer active.
Open your Pen Tool and at the top, choose "Path".
Place your cursor approximately here and release.
Click here to make your first work path.
Release and click here.
Continue these steps until you've clicked back to the point where you began.
Right-click or secondary-click directly on the path to open the fly-out list.
Click "Make Selection" and feather it 100 pixels.
Click the Layer mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the top layer.
Basically, the area that's white in the layer mask is revealing that area of the layer next
to it onto the layer below it.
Conversely, the area that's black in the layer mask is concealing or masking out that area
of the layer.
Next, we'll brighten the corners of our text that are in shadow.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click the layer mask next to your text to make a selection of its shape.
Hide the selection by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + H, twice.
Open your Brush Tool and Brush Picker.
Pick a soft, round brush.
Make its size 500 pixels, the Hardness: 0%, the opacity 30%, and the Flow: 100%.
Invert your foreground and background colors by pressing "x" on your keyboard, so white
is your foreground color.
Brush once over the top, right corner of the text to brighten it and repeat it over the
lower, left corner.
Lastly, we'll angle our image in perspective, so it looks like we're looking up at it from below.
First, press Ctrl or Cmd + D to deselect the hidden selection of the inside of the frame.
Make a composite snapshot and go to Edit, Transform and Perspective.
Go to a bottom corner and drag it out.
Then, press Enter or Return.
This is Marty from Blue lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!