Scratch art text image

Scratch art text image

In Adobe Photoshop CS6, I learned how to create a scratch art styled image of text. I also wrote a mini tutorial of how I created this image. Here's a picture of the image I created below.

Step 1: I dragged the desired background into an Adobe Photoshop CS6 file. I then removed the background lock on the image and resized the canvas using "Canvas size", and then resized the image   itself by clicking "Free transform" so it would fit on the canvas.

Step 2: After selecting an image and resizing it, I created a second layer and filled it with white paint using the "Paint bucket tool".

Step 3: After creating a second layer and filling it with white paint, I selected the "Horizontal type mask tool" and selected onto the image to write in "Thug Life". Afterwards I changed the font to "Stencil Std" and changed the font size to 95 pt.

Step 4: Once I added in the text, I selected the "Eraser tool" and changed the eraser size to 2. I then zoomed in using the "Zoom tool", and began to erase on an angle while making sure to leave small gaps in-between the eraser strokes as well.

Step 5: After I finished creating my desire image, I selected "Save as" and saved the image twice- once as a Psd, the other as a JPEG.

In conclusion, this was a very interesting assignment to say the least. I got to experiment with finding out how certain backgrounds would look with different types of text, and I got to learn an interesting photoshop tip as well. Overall I'd say that this was a very interesting lesson on photoshop.