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In this tutorial I’ll be teaching you how to make some simple, yet very nice looking burnt text.
result of burnt text tutorial

1.

First create a new document for your text, then add in a background that will suit the effect. I used this texture that I found on DeviantART.
background texture

2.

Reset your colors to Black & White by pressing D then write out your text.
text written out
It’s best you use a large font/large font size.
Now change the layer mode for the text layer to Soft Light and lower the fill to about 20%.
layer settings
You should be left with nearly invisible text like this:
after changing layer settings

9 Comments »

  1. thank you…it is really proffessional!!

    Comment by soha — December 10, 2006

  2. nice, works perfect with CS

    Comment by photoshopCS-worker — December 12, 2006

  3. Hey…..I like it.
    Gave me something for me.
    send it to my mail.
    Thank’s

    Comment by SIMON — January 14, 2007

  4. nice one

    Comment by Manish — February 17, 2007

  5. thanks

    Comment by frederick orvieto — February 18, 2007

  6. Nice! I hadn’t used the lighting effects in PS before, so this tutorial was an eye opener. Thanks for publishing this!

    Comment by bish — February 20, 2007

  7. I like this tutral- i am very happy
    it’s very nice work…

    Comment by Faraz4ever — February 28, 2007

  8. umm where is the photo on deviantart

    Comment by charlie — March 24, 2007

  9. Awesome tutorial, quite useful. I love the effect :) Thanks!

    Comment by James — March 25, 2007

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