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Sas Jacobs is an Australian web developer specialising in web applications  training and Develop ment. She interested in using Flash with dynamic content and She have presented at a numerous International conferences relating to applications development,  XML and  scripting components. She edited the book (Flash MX 2004 Accelerated) as well as books on adobe  Photoshop and  Illustrator. She have a nice flash business web site at http://www .aip.net.au and a personal web site at http://www.sasjacobs.com
Mark Galer is  a seniorr  lecturer in Digital Imaging i photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of University on the BA Photography program ,, and has published six titles for the International publisher (Focal Press) - -  ranging from location photography through to Photoshop skills and . Digital Imaging . He has a good commercial background in editoria; photography and is currently  contributor to magazines in the  Australia USA, and the UK. He is an Adobe beta tester for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, he is  considered as one of the leading lecturer in Photoshop training and has been appointed as an Ambassador for Photoshop training in Australia.
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
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Puncture Your Text:
This tutorial will show you how to Puncture a text on a metallic surface using nothing but photoshop.
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Create a realistic stony text using Photoshop by the easiest way. you will get fine  end.
 
 
 
STEP 1 :
Create a new project with any size (but resolution should be 150) and then type your text and resize it as you see:
 
 
Then select the text layer and click ctrl+e in order to merge it with the background layer, Or select Layer >> merge down
 
STEP 2:
Select Filter >> blur >> Gaussian blur and adjust radius to 12:
And then choose Image >> adjustment >> levels and move the right most slider to the left as you will see to increase the tone of the text border:
 
 
STEP 3: 
Choose Filter >> Pixelate >> Color halvetone and adjust the setting as follow:
Keep in mind that the max radius is used in order to determine the width of the hole and we keep the value of channel 1 on its default value because it is represent the red channel and our text color is the red.
 
 
 
Select the magic wand tool and hit on a white area and then create a new layer and fill the selection with black:
 
 
 
STEP 4:
Create a selection a round the text using the rectangular marquee tool as u see:
 
 
 
The press Ctrl+Shift+I To invert the selection and then press the Delete key to delete this area :
 
 
Then select the background layer and fill it with red:
 
 
STEP 5:
Select the text layer in the layer palette And then Select Image >> Adjustment >> hue/ saturation ( Ctrl + U ) and set the settings as follow :
 
 
Open the Layer style panel of the text layer and adjust the drop shadow and bevel settings as follow:
 
 
STEP 6 :
No we want to create the metallic surface.
Set the foreground color to black and the background color to white and Create a new layer and place it above the text layer and then choose Filter >> Render >> Clouds and press Ctrl + F to reapply the filter again.
Then Choose Filter >> render >> Lighting effect and adjust settings as you see:
 
 
Then Choose Layer >> Create Clipping mask Or press Ctrl + g
 
 
Change the color mode of the clouds layer to Soft light
Then change the Fill of it to 70
 
 
Or Set the fill to 10 :
 
 
The End   
              Dr Smith

 

 

 

 
   
 
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