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Creating Wooden Textured Text

This first technique uses the Selection type of text.

You can use some of the built-in textures along with a filter or two and selection manipulation to create some pretty cool text effects. This next exercise shows you how to create a textured wood effect. Follow these steps:

1.	Open a new 500×200–pixel image with the resolution set to 72 pixels per inch. Set the background color to white and the image type to 16.7 million colors.
2.	Set the foreground color to a medium brown. I chose R: 172, G: 114, B: 68 RGB values and a white background color. Select the Text tool and, in the Text Entry dialog box, set the options as follows:
3.	Name: Arial Black Size: 72 Script: Western Create As Selection (this will give you ...