Tutorial:Create a stone textured text effect in photoshop

In this tutorial we are going to see how to create a stone textured text. Using this you can not only create text effects but also do a lot of creative stuff if you put in some more innovation. Here is the final output

Final Output

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Step 1: Open the Document

Open a document of any size you desire and type some text on it. It is better to use some broad fonts like what I have used so that the end result looks good.

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Step 2: Applying layer styles

Now click on the add layer style icon available at the bottom of the layers palette and apply the following layer styles.

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Now select bevel and emboss layer style. In that Select Texture and choose rock patterns and choose any pattern from that.

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Therefore your stone textured text has been created. In order to make it more decorative you can continue with the following optional steps.

Step 3: Creating the border

Now create a new layer and ctrl+click inside the thumbnail of the text layer and now the text selected. With the text selected go to Select -> Modify -> Expand and type 3 pixels.

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Step 4: Decorating the new layer

Now fill that selection with any color and apply the following layer styles.

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Now you should have something like this.

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Step 5: Deleting of central portion

Now ctrl+click in the text layer with the new layer still selected and delete the selected portion and you will get something like this.

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Step 6: Applying layer styles

Now apply bevel and emboss layer style to the new layer with its default values and you must find something similar to this.

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Therefore you are done with it. To apply more layer styles for the border just download layer styles here.

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12 Comments

  1. karthikeyan
    karthikeyan on 10/06/2010 at 20:44

    very nice tut, waiting for a bomb frm u…

    • Sipi Sagar
      Sipi Sagar on 16/06/2010 at 17:18

      Surely Karthick, I making my nuclear bomb ready. Once it is ready i ll fit it in Fox 12 missile and launch it through F16 jet.

  2. Richie
    Richie on 15/06/2010 at 18:57

    Hey.. that’s a cool tip.. thanks

    • Sipi Sagar
      Sipi Sagar on 16/06/2010 at 17:19

      Thanks Richie, thanks for the comments.

  3. no name
    no name on 01/07/2010 at 13:33

    A very detailed tutorial. I love your blog. There are so many interesting things that I can learn. Thanks for sharing all of these cool stuff.

    • Sri Ganesh.M
      Sri Ganesh.M on 25/07/2013 at 16:28

      Thanks for the comment and welcome to AnimHuT

  4. Ari Arsyadi
    Ari Arsyadi on 10/09/2010 at 22:19

    Simple but useful. Nice!

  5. Arslan
    Arslan on 27/09/2010 at 08:53

    simple and nice

  6. No Name
    No Name on 25/07/2013 at 00:24

    Very simple and effective tip. +1 for this.

    • Sri Ganesh.M
      Sri Ganesh.M on 25/07/2013 at 17:03

      Thank you ! kindly add your name next time – instead of your keyword !

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