Photoshop Design Tutorial: The effect of leaf winding text

This example is made of the effect of the leaf winding text, and the individual strokes of the text with the leaves of the figure to replace, so that the text and leaf graphics to foil each other, to achieve the effect of the combination of graphics and text. Now let's study together. Make the text, leaves and tree branches of the example, mainly using the "Horizontal type" tool and "pen" and other path drawing tools. In addition, the three-dimensional and gloss effect of the tree, mainly uses the "color overlay", "gloss", "Bevel and Emboss", "Inner glow", "Inner Shadow", "Outer glow" and "projection" and other layer style effects.

Final effect

Technical Tips

This example produces a flowchart.

Figure 2-111 Making an overview

Production steps

(1) Start Photoshop, execute the "file" \ "new" command, and open the New dialog box. As shown in Figure 2-112, set up the New dialog box and create an additional document named "Leaf text."

Figure 2-112 Setting the new dialog box

(2) Set the foreground color to dark green (r:98﹑g:173, b:0), and then press the key on the keyboard to fill the background layer with the foreground color.

(3) Use the Pen tool in the Toolbox to draw a closed path in the document, as shown in Figure 2-113.

Figure 2-113 drawing a closed path

(4) In the Path palette, click the "Load path as a selection" button at the bottom of the palette, convert the path to a selection, and then press the key to remove the selected area, leaving only a border. As a background, as shown in Figure 2-114.

Figure 2-114 Production background

(5) Set foreground color to soil yellow (r:208, g:179, b:102). Using the horizontal Text tool in the Toolbox, select the word "tree" in the document that fits the font. Then set its opacity to 60% on the layers palette. As shown in Figure 2-115.

Figure 2-115 Setting text opacity

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