For a limited time only:

Sign up and receive INSTANT access to ALL 42 psd.NET Tutorial Finished Designs (as .psd's)

Yes that includes THIS Tutorial DESIGN as a .psd for you to interact with!  A $199 value FREE for a limited time.

This is a perfect complement to learning these tutorials.  You will receive secret access codes after signing up for the PSDer Below.

I respect your privacy & will never sell or release your information. You can unsubscribe at any time. Over 3400 members.

Start out with a scenic image.  You are going to create some very large text, so choose a solid font and large text size (you can type it in above 72 in the characters palette).

After you have created a large text layer, go ahead and bring up your layer options and choose gradient overlay. Here I have chosen the copper gradient overlay and added a few other options such as a purple stroke.

Get used to using layer style (effects) as they can spice up your text pretty quickly.

In order to give the appearance of misty text, you can create a layer mask on the top layer of the sky here. Use the radial gradient tool with black as the foreground color and create some masked areas.

Here you can see (with the other layers turned off) that there is now a hole where you can place layers beneath it. You can also use a soft edged large brush when masking, I just prefer the gradient tool.  By duplicating the background layer and putting it on top of the layers palette and creating a mask we can reveal a portion of other layers that will be visible. Since the original layer is on the bottom, the sky will remain in tact but give the impression of see through visibility in the areas you mask.

Here is the effect once again...take a look at the layers palette and should be able to understand what is going on.

You can use this technique yourself. Here I’ve dragged in another image and free transformed scaled it (holding Shift when free transforming (edit: free transform) allows you to scale)) down to a manageable size.

We can also place this layer underneath that top layer in the layers palette to give the same effect but we may first have to mask the upper right corner a bit to allow portions to show through. Once again, a nice foggy blended effect.

Here is another image which I’ve dragged in to the document. Do the same thing...grab some images that you think would blend into your design and pull them in. Here I’ve got a southwestern rocky range, made a selection of the sky with the magic wand on 20. After I’ve selected the blue sky with the magic wand tool, I then Edit: Cut to get rid of the sky. Yes, you could mask the sky if you want to hide the pixels, but if you know that you don’t want it, go ahead and just erase them.

You may notice that the selection isn’t perfect with the remaining blue pixels (once again) but that will be ok because you can easily change the blending mode and those pixels can just disappear (depending on the blending mode and situation). You could easily use a tolerance of 10, select a blue portion and right click, select similar and then cut (this would work fine b/c there is no other real blue left on the layer).  Adjust the size if necessary with Edit: Transform: Scale.

In this case Soft Light blending mode works great.

Here I’ve just created a circular fill layer (see other tutorial) and stroked it with some additional layer effects to make a logo. Add a black rectangular fill layer on top and then a text layer with white that fits within the ‘area’ of the black fill layer. You can then link all of the layers (or merge them) and scale the size down.

This logo will be a part of the final design, holding its own elemental weight. Not the best logo in the world I know but it was made on the fly.

Now just add some complementary text to your design and you're good to go.  Now you know how to use some more Photoshop tools to create design. You can create a t.v. ad, logo, natural text blend and understand layer masking some more!  Grab this .psd from the iPSD Directory or by signing up for the PSDer ezine.  Click here to check out my complete line of Photoshop Designer training products.