Photoshop makes natural weathered text on a stone

1. What is the nature of doing if we are to form the natural weathering of the stone surface of a rock image of the type (Fig. 1) after it has been carved and weathered? Here's an easy way to do this.

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2. Enter the text that needs to be processed first, the font is best to choose a more coarse strokes, so the effect will be stronger (Figure 2).

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3. Delete the text layer, then to the menu-image-Rotate the canvas, rotate the canvas 90 degrees clockwise, then to the menu-filter-twist-shear, adjust the shape of the text, and then rotate the canvas 90 degrees counterclockwise, then press Ctrl+t to make further adjustments to the text shape. Make it as harmonious and natural as possible with the shape of the rock (Fig 3).

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4. Set the blending mode of the type layer to dissolve, ctrl-click on the text layer, so that its selection float, and then back to the background layer, copy and paste operation, the top of the text layer hidden, back to just paste the resulting layer, select the Magic Wand tool, in the image of the color slightly lighter click, Then execute the menu-select-Select similar (Figure 4).

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5. To the channel panel, create a new channel, fill the selection with white, press Ctrl+d to cancel the selection, and then execute the menu-filter-Blur-Gaussian blur, blur radius of 1 pixels, and then execute the menu-filter-texture-turtle crack, and then use the curve to adjust the shading, making the contrast a bit stronger (Figure 5).

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6. Ctrl-click, new channel, so that the text in the channel float, press Ctl+c to copy the selection, back to the layers board, paste the copied content on top of the background layer, the opacity of this layer is set to 50%, the layer blending mode is set to multiply the bottom, Then change the blending mode of the layer of rock-textured text layer on this layer to soft light (Figure 6).

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7. Select Menu-image-adjust-brightness contrast, set the brightness of the text layer with the rock texture to +30, then execute-menu-filter-style-emboss, set the angle to 130 degrees, height to 5 pixels, number 165, then press CTRL+M to light up the image color slightly (Figure 7).

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8. With the eraser tool, the opacity is set to 100%, at the edge of the text at a casual click, the edge rub look coarse, and then double-click the layer, hook-and-click Bevel and Emboss effect, style selection of the inner bevel, depth of 100%, size and soften all set to 0, the remaining parameters unchanged (Figure 8).

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9. In addition to the rock texture of the text layer, hide all the remaining layers, select the Magic Wand tool, set the tolerance to 2 pixels to the channel panel, select the Green channel, click on the light color block of the text image in the green channel with the magic Wand tool, and then execute the menu-select-Choose similar, Then go back to the layer of layers with rock textures, copy and paste the parts of the selection. Change the blending mode of this layer to multiply, double-click the layer, select the bevel and emboss, style the inner bevel, depth 100%, size and soften all set to 0, and the rest of the parameters unchanged, OK, finish (Figure 9).

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10. The rest of the color brightness can try to adjust their own, may get more ideal results.

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