Text Filled Text Tutorial for Photoshop

This tutorial uses a free font and a couple of textures. This will work with almost any font with a little weight.

Text Filled Text Tutorial

Text Filled Text is always a winner. It is not difficult to master, and almost any font can be used. Feel free to play around with any of the settings to achieve different results. Enjoy!

Resources:

Blacklisted Font from Dafont
Text Texture & Old Paper Texture:

Step 1

Open a new document using the settings below:

Step 2

Using Blacklisted font at size 200pt, colour is not important, but I used black, type each line of text on a separate layer.

Arrange the text as you require – I simply centred it. Right click on each of the layers and click on Rasterize Text.

Step 3

To make the rest of this tutorial easier, you should organise the layers palette by placing each of your text layers in it’s own group.

As my top and bottom layers are the same word, I named them ‘top text’ and ‘bottom text’. Name the groups the same as the layers.

Step 4

Working on the ‘top text’ layer, duplicate the layer.

Place the original ‘top text’ layer in it’s own group within the ‘top text’ group, here we will create the extrusion, so give the group that name.

Make sure the ‘top text’ layer in the ‘extrusion’ group is active and duplicate the layer.

Ctrl+T to transform the object, and using the arrow keys on the keyboard, move the text 1px to the right and 1px up.

Hit the Enter key to accept the transformation.

Ctrl+Shift+Alt+T to repeat the transformation. Repeat 9 times (you can just lift your finger off the T and keep hitting it to repeat). Your final layer should be ‘top text copy 11’.

Step 5

Merge the group. The resulting layer should now still be called ‘extrusion’.

Apply the following Bevel & Emboss, Contour, Color Overlay and Drop Shadow settings:

Step 6

Make the ‘top text copy’ layer active and reduce the Fill to 0%.

Apply the following Stroke settings:

Step 7

Right click on the ‘top text copy’ layer and click on Rasterize Layer Style.

Now apply the following Bevel & Emboss and Contour settings:

Step 8

Make the ‘extrusion’ layer active and drag the Text Texture into your document.

Place the text as you like it.

Make the ‘top text copy’ active and using the Magic Wand tool, click anywhere outside of the text.

Select > Modify > Expand – set to 1px

Make the Text Texture layer active and hit the Delete key on the keyboard.

Apply the following Inner Shadow settings:

Step 9

Repeat Steps 4 – 8 for all lines of text. Remember to copy and paste the layer styles to save time.

Step 10

Make the Background layer active. Drag the Old Paper Texture into the document and place it as required.

Filter > Lens Correction > Apply the following settings:

Step 11

Click on the half grey, half black circle icon at the bottom of the layers palette and select Levels. Apply the following settings:

Make the layer mask of the Levels layer active.

Select a large, soft, round brush at about 900px, make sure the foreground colour is black. Reduce the opacity to 35% and click once in the centre of the canvas.

You are done!

If you have any problems completing this tutorial, please do not hesitate to contact me either through the contact form on this site, or via the comments section below.