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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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Paint A Text On A tree
In This advanced  tutorial you will learn how to creat a tree bark and paint your text on it .you will using photoshop filters .
STEP 1 :create a 640×480-pixel New project  and then In the toolbox, click on the Default Foreground and Background Colors icon to set up the default color. Choose Filter > Render > Fibers to apply this filter Change the variance to 17 and the strength to 4. Then save your work as PSD  file and we will use it for the displace filter.
STEP 2: Now we want to colorize our tree . To do that choose
Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (OR press ctrl+U) then  Check Colorize  and then set the Hue to 35, the Saturation to 40, and  the Lightness  to     –35. The tree will be yellowish brown.
 
** Then Choose Image > Adjustments > Curves adjust the shape of the graph like what you see in the image This step will make the color of the tree more darker.
 

STEP 3: Click on the Channels Palette. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the RGB channel  to select only the lighter areas of the tree . Then, press Ctrl+H to hide the selection.
** Then Choose Image >Adjustments> Hue/ Saturation and set the Hue to 115 and the Saturation to –55 ( DON'T check the colorized)..
Choose Edit > Fade > Hue/Saturation and set the Opacity to 80%
 
STEP 4: Set the foreground color to red (#FF6666) . then Choose the Horizontal Type Tool from the toolbox. and write your text .with the "Comics Sans MS" Font .
Then resize your text (Ctrl +T)  To make it larger and rotate it like what you see.
 
Choose Filter > Distort >Displace. You will see a message asking you whether you want Rasterize your layer in order to apply the filter. Click on the OK button to open the dialogue box Set the Horizontal Scale and Vertical Scale to 12 , and then click on OK. You should now see a dialog box from which you can choose the PSD File that you saved it before (Step1). Choose the the file and press open
 
STEP 5: press Ctrl+A to select the entire image, and then choose the Background layer from the Layers Palette .Then Choose Filter > Distort > Spherize  and set the Amount to 75% and the Mode to Horizontal Only. This step will spherize  the tree.
Then Select the text layer and press Ctrl+F to repeat the the filter.  Then Press Ctrl+D to deselect the selection.
 
 
STEP 7: Select the Background layer  and then press Ctrl+J to make another copy of it (Layer 1).  Select the Background layer again, click on the Foreground Color button in the toolbox, and set it to black. Then, press Alt+Del to make the Background layer black.
 
Select the tree layer  and click on the link icon of the text layer directly above it to link the two layers.
Press Ctrl+T to apply the Free
Transform command. Hold down
the Alt key and drag in the handles around the image. then Press Enter to finalize the transformation.
STEP 8: Choose the Gradient Tool from the toolbox and then .Click on the Linear Gradient button in the option bar at the top to set up a linear gradient. Then, click on the drop-down arrow button beside the Gradient Color button to open the Gradient Preset panel. Click on the second gradient  (Foreground to Transparent).
 Create a New Layer .Drag it right below the text layer at the very top. then start dragging  from outward to inside Click on the text layer and set the Blend Mode to Color Burn.
 
Press Ctrl+J to make another copy of the text layer. Select the
duplicate text layer  and set the Blend Mode to Linear Light and the Fill to 35%.
 
 
 
 
Select the duplicate text layer from the Layers Palette and click on the Add a Layer Style button at the bottom. Choose Bevel and Emboss to open the Layer Style Panel. and change setting like what you will see in the following image
 
You will get the following result
The End

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