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This lesson demonstrates how to superimpose your name onto old wood, using the Displacement Map filter. You will find the (wood) background image I am working with Here. Unzip the file and open it onto Photoshop’s workspace.
Alternative Displacement Map tutorials can be viewed Here, Here, and Here.
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards. Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette,
or the Zoom Tool. 
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way. 
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Open your choice of image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
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You now need save to a copy of your image as a PSD file, therefore, from the top
menu, choose Edit then choose Save As and save it as a PSD file.
Save this file to a memorable file, you will need it later in this lesson.
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Now, working on the wood image on your workspace, activate the Horizontal Type Tool.
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Your type’s size depends on the size of your image - these are my settings.
Notice I am using White for my text colour.
Now, apply your type to the wood background, then centralise it with the Move Tool.
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From the top menu, choose Edit then choose Free Transform - then enlarge, and reposition your type.
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It is time to apply the PSD file you saved earlier; therefore, from the top menu, choose Filter then choose Distort then choose Displace. Reply OK to the Rasterise prompt! And in the subsequent Displace dialogue box, set the following attributes, then click OK.
You will then be asked to Choose a displacement map. Search the Look in tab and locate the PSD file you saved at the start of this lesson, then click Open.
Your white text will change to the following.
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To blend your text with the wood, from the Layers palette, change the type’s layer Mode from Normal to Overlay. Layers lesson - Blend Mode lesson.
This changes your type to the following.
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To lighten the type, right-click its layer, (in the Layers palette), then from the
drop-down menu, choose Duplicate Layer. Reply OK to the Duplicate Layer dialogue box - there is no need to name this layer - unless you wish to. Your type will change to the following, and is perhaps too light.
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Therefore, to fade it slightly - reduce the Opacity of its layer.
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I am going to blur the type’s edge, very slightly. Therefore, from the top menu, choose Filter then Blur then Gaussian Blur, with a Radius of 1 Pixel.
 
Note
The size of your image dictates the strength of the blur - larger images require a slightly higher Radius.
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To add a little depth to your type, activate the top (type) layer, and from the top menu, choose Layer then choose Layer Style.
Then choose Inner Shadow - I chose the default settings. Now, activate the second type layer, and apply the same Inner Shadow setting to it.
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Congratulations! You have created your type on wood. Experiment with different backgrounds and type - additionally, you can apply images to backgrounds, (as I have with the dove and fern leaf Custom Shapes), in exactly the same way. When you are happy with your artwork, from the top menu, choose Layer then choose Flatten Image, then save, or print your work.
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