Hey, this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. I'm going to show you how to create the look of
writing or drawing in sand.
For your convenience, I provided this image that you can use for this project as well as the font,
"KG Midnight Memories". Their links are in my video's description or project files.
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To prevent our text or drawing from extending into the water,
we'll make a selection of the water and then, we'll make another selection of the wet sand
which we ll use to soften the text or drawing inside the area of the wet sand. To do this,
open your Quick Selection Tool and make its radius 4 pixels. Drag your tool over the water
to select it. We'll refine its edges by going to Select. In versions CC 2015.5 and later,
click "Select and Mask". In earlier versions click "Refine Edge". If you prefer to use Refine Edge,
Shift-click "Select and Mask". I did in-depth tutorials on both filters so if you'd like to
watch them, I provided their links as well. I'll choose to use "Select and Mask". If you're
using this tool as well, click the "Refine Edge Brush Tool". To adjust the size of your brush,
make sure the CapsLock key is off and press the right or left bracket key on your keyboard.
Brush along the edge of the water to add fine details to the selection. Output it as a "Selection".
Go to Select and "Save Selection". Name it, "Water". Then, click OK or press Enter or Return.
Drag your tool over the wet sand and the water as well. To remove areas of the selection, press and
hold Alt or Option as you drag over those areas. To check it, press "Q" to see it as a quick mask.
Then, press "Q" again to revert it back into a selection. We'll save this selection as well.
Let's name it, "Wet Sand". Then, deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool. We'll make our text temporarily black so we can see it
over the sand. If your foreground color isn't black, press "D" on your keyboard.
Open your Type Picker and type in the font I provided, "KG Midnight Memories".
I'll make its size 219 points, however, feel free to adjust the size based on the number of characters in your text.
The Aliasing is Smooth and center alignment. Click on the image and type out your text.
To adjust the spacing between two characters, known as "kerning", place your cursor between
them and press Alt or Option plus the right or left arrow key on your keyboard.
If you have two or more lines of text, to adjust the spacing between the lines, known as "Leading",
double-click the large "T" of your text layer to highlight all the lines and click the Character
panel icon. You can also go to Window and Character. Place your cursor over the "Leading"
icon and when the cursor changes to a scrubby slider icon, drag it to the left or right.
If you want any text to be larger or smaller than the others, drag your cursor over that
text to highlight it and place your cursor over the large "T" icon at the top or in the Character
panel and drag it to the left or right. I'll raise up the bottom line by placing my cursor over the
"Baseline Shift" icon and dragging the scrubby slider to the right. I'll shift the bottom line
to the right a bit by clicking the left of the bottom line and pressing Alt or Option and the right arrow key a few times.
Open your Move Tool and close the Character panel. Drag your text to the center.
We'll make our text a bit thinner by Ctrl or Cmd-clicking the large "T" of the layer
to select our text's shape and going to Select, Modify, and Contract. Contract it by 3 pixels.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer. We'll fill the selection with black and since
our foreground color is black, press Alt or Option + Delete. Then, deselect it by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + D.
Click off the eyeball icon next to the original text layer to hide the text
and double-click the top layer to open its Layer Style window. Click Color Overlay
and the color box. In the hexadecimal field, type in C7AB99. Then, click OK.
Click "Outer Glow" and the color box. Type in the same color.
The Blend Mode is Normal and the Opacity is 70%. The Technique is Softer,
the Spread is 0%, and the Size is 20 pixels. The Contour is linear and the Range is 50%.
We'll convert our visible text or drawing into a Smart Object so we can modify it non-destructively
and replace it with different text or drawing without having to re-do the effects. To do this,
click the icon at the upper, right and click "Convert to Smart Object".
Double-click an empty area of the layer to open its Layer Style window. Click Bevel & Emboss .
The Style is "Emboss", the Technique is "Smooth", and the Depth is 250%. The Direction is Up, the Size
is 10 pixels and soften it 0 pixels. Uncheck "Use Global Light". The Angle is 130 degrees,
and the Altitude is 0 degrees. Open the Gloss Contour preset list and click the gear icon.
Click "Small List". Click "Rounded Steps". If you don't see it, click the gear icon again
and click "Contours". Then, click OK.
Click the color box of the Highlight Mode and type in 7E7164. Then, click OK.
The Blend Mode is Linear Burn. The Shadow Mode is irrelevant since its opacity is 0%.
Click "Texture" and open the pattern preset list. We'll be choosing "Clouds". If you don't see it,
it's located in the "Legacy Patterns and More" folder. If you don't see this folder, go to Window
and "Patterns". Click the icon at the upper, right of the Patterns panel and click "Legacy Patterns
and More". Open the folder and scroll down to the "Patterns" folder. In that folder, we'll find the
"Clouds" pattern. Make the Scale 30% and the Depth 25%. Click "Stroke" and the color box.
Type in D6C2B4. The Size is 4 pixels, the Position is "Inside", the Blend Mode is "Soft Light",
and the Opacity is 100%. Click "Outer Glow" and the color box. Pick black.
The Blend Mode is "Color Burn"
and the Opacity is 30%. The Technique is Softer, the Spread is 0% and the Size is 0 pixels.
Next, we'll mask out our text or drawing from the water. To save some space in the Layers panel,
let's collapse the Smart Filters. We'll place our sand writing into a folder so we can apply
a layer mask to it that will mask out the water. To do this, press Ctrl or Cmd + G.
Open the Channels panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and Channels. Ctrl or Cmd-click the
water channel to select its shape. Open back the Layers panel and Alt or Option-click the
Layer Mask icon to make an inverted layer mask of the selection next to the folder.
We'll place our sand writing into another folder by making the layer active and pressing Ctrl or Cmd + G.
Open back the Channels panel and this time Ctrl or Cmd-click the "wet sand" channel to select its shape.
Open back the Layers panel and make an inverted layer mask of the selection next
to the Group 2 folder. We'll reduce the density of the layer mask because we don't want to completely
mask out our sand writing that appears over the wet sand. To reduce the layer mask's density, open
the Properties panel. If you don't see it, go to Window and Properties. Reduce the Density to 30%.
Next, we'll change its perspective to match the beach shore photo.
Make the sand writing layer active. We'll zoom out a bit to give us more room on our canvas. To do this, press Ctrl
or Cmd and the minus key on our keyboard. Open your Transform Tool by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + T.
Go to a corner and rotate the Transform's bounding box to an angle that closely matches the water.
To reposition it, go inside the bounding box and drag it. To resize it, go to a corner and
press and hold Alt or Option as you drag it in or out. Next, we'll go to the corners and press
and hold Ctrl or Cmd to warp our sand writing until it matches the perspective of the photo.
To elongate our sand writing, go to the bottom middle anchor point and press and hold the Shift
key as we drag it down. Continue to manipulate its shape until you like the way it looks.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. Thanks for watching!