Hi. This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV. In the tradition of spoof publications like
"The Onion", "National Lampoon" and the legendary, "Mad" magazine, I'm going to show you how
to carve a monumental-sized message, as well as a logo into the side of an ancient pyramid.
I provided this image, so you can follow along.
Its link is located in the video description or project files.
Open your Horizontal Type Tool and choose a font. I'm using American
Captain Regular. If you'd like to use it, I provide the link to the font, as well. For
this font, I'll make the size: 100 points. Make it Smooth, Center Alignment and black
for the color. Click on the pyramid and type out your text.
To adjust the space or "kerning"
between the characters, click between those characters and press and hold Alt or Option
as you press the left or right arrow key on your keyboard.
To adjust the space between lines of text,
go to Window and Character. This opens the Character panel.
Double-click on the large "T" in the Layers panel
to highlight all the text
and drag the "leading" icon to the right or left.
If you want to increase the size of a word or line, highlight it
and slide the “Size” icon to the right.
We can close the Character panel now.
Next we’re going to place the text in perspective. First, go to Layer, Rasterize and Type.
We could use the Vanishing Point filter, but
for this particular project, I find that the Transform Tool is faster. To open the Transform,
press Ctrl or Cmd + T.
Drag your text over, so the bottom line is centered over the side
of the pyramid. We're going to move each corner of the Transform to match the perspective
of the pyramid. To do this, go to the bottom, left corner and press and hold Ctrl or Cmd
as you drag the corner to the left. Go to the lower, right corner, continue to press
and hold Ctrl or Cmd and drag this corner until the bottom line of the transform is
parallel to the line of stone on the pyramid. Go to the top, right corner and drag it to
the right. Drag the the top, left corner also to a position parallel to the perspective
of the pyramid. Continue to finesse the position and and angles of the Transform. To accept
it, press Enter or Return. Next, we'll displace it and then recess it into the stones. To
displace the text, so it'll wrap around the contours of the worn-away stones on the side
of the pyramid, we need to make the pyramid into a displacement map. First, click the
thumbnail of the background to make it active and click the icon at the upper, right. Click
"Duplicate Layer". Click "New" and type in "Displacement". Then, click OK.
Since Displacement maps work best when they're blurred,
go to Filter, Blur and Gaussian Blur. Blur it 2
pixels and click OK. Go to File and "Save As". Save it to your Desktop as a .PSD file
and click "Save". If you see this panel, click OK.
Then, click the small "x" on the Displacement tab to close the file.
Make your text layer active and go to Filter, Distort and Displace.
Displace the Horizontal and Vertical Scales:
7 pixels, "Stretch to Fit" and "Repeat Edge Pixels". Then, click OK. Click the "Displacement"
document in the Desktop and click "Open".
Instantly, your text's shape conformed to
the displacement map of the pyramid. Reduce its opacity to 60%.
Make a copy of of the text by pressing Ctrl or Cmd + J.
Reduce its Fill to 0%. Reducing its Fill makes the text
layer invisible, however, it'll keep visible all the effects that we'll add to it. Double-click
the thumbnail of the copy to open its Layer Style window.
Click "Inner Shadow". Make the Distance: 7 pixels and the Size: 3 pixels.
Then, click OK.
Next, we'll carve a logo into the stones.
Hide the text layers
and open a black and white logo or graphic. We need to cut it out
from its white background. One of the quickest ways is to go to Select and "Color Range".
Click "Shadows" and click OK.
This makes a selection of just the black shapes.
Press Ctrl or Cmd + J
to cut and copy the black shapes to its own layer. To place the logo onto the pyramid
document, press "v" to open your Move Tool and drag the image onto the tab of your pyramid.
Without releasing your computer mouse or pen, drag it down onto the image and then, release.
Open your Transform Tool and repeat the same steps as you did for your text to align the
Transform to the perspective of the pyramid. To correct exaggerated distortions, go to
the bottom, middle anchor point and drag it up. Continue to finesse the logo's size and angles.
When you're done, press Enter or Return to accept it.
Since the last filter that we used was the "Displace" filter, press Ctrl or Cmd + F to
displace the logo. Pressing Ctrl or Cmd + F automatically repeats the last filter. Just
like we did for the text, reduce the logo's opacity to 60%, make a copy of the layer
and reduce its Fill to 0%. Go to “Effects” and press and hold Alt or Option as you drag
a copy of the Inner Shadow effect next to the logo copy.
If your logo or graphic consists
of black areas that surround open areas like in this example, I'll show you how to brighten
those open areas to make your logo pop more.
Ctrl-click or Cmd-click on the thumbnail of
the logo to make a selection of its shape. Invert the selection by pressing Ctrl or Cmd
+ Shift + I. Press "Q" to make the selection into a quick mask. Make sure your foreground
color is black. Open your Paint Bucket Tool and make sure "Contiguous" is checked.
Click anywhere outside the Quick Mask to fill in the empty area that surrounds it. Press "Q"
again to revert it back into a selection.
Click the New Layer icon to make a new layer.
Press the Layer mask icon to make a layer mask of the selection next to the empty layer.
Click the empty layer to make it active. We'll fill it with a light, sandy color. Click the
foreground color and type in DEAC89. Then, click OK.
The foreground color is now the color we typed in.
To fill the empty layer with this color, press Alt or Option + Delete.
The layer mask is masking out everything but the inside areas of the logo.
Change its Blend Mode to Overlay
and reduce its opacity to 40%.
This is Marty from Blue Lightning TV.
Thanks for watching!