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Brick Text Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial we are going to take our text and turn it into an inlay in an old brick wall. To start off, lets create a brick-colored background. To give my image a little more depth I used a radial gradient.

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Use the text tool to write your title, and then rasterize your text by right clicking on your word with the text tool and choosing "rasterize type."

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Ctrl click your text layer to get a selection. Create a new layer above your text layer and fill your selection with a very dark linear gradient. Be sure that the darker of the two colors is towards the top, this helps to create the "inlayed" effect.

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Merge your layers by choosing Layer > Flatten Image. Now we are going to add the brick texture. Choose Filter > Texture > Patchwork. I used the settings below, but feel free to improvise.

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Next we are going to add a little age to our wall by overlaying some noise. Create a new layer and fill it with black. Choose Filter > Noise > Add Noise. Choose "monochromatic," and play with the settings until you get something similar to mine.

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Lower the opacity of your noise layer, and then use your eraser tool to get rid of most of the noise bordering the text.

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Merge this layer with your background layer by pressing Ctrl+E. Now we are going to add some light. Choose Filter > Render > Lighting Effect. I used the settings shown below.

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Your done! I added a small black border of 10 pixels, and included my domain name. Here is how mine turned out.

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