How to write text on a cloth with photoshop

            Final Preview of what we are going to create today!

Final preview

           A very useful tutorial for touching realism in photoshop
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          So lets begin with the tutorial
Step1 Open image of  a cloth (in this tutorial we are using a silk cloth) in photoshop

you can download this image from here SILK


Step 2
create a new text layer and write what you want to.
choose  your desired font and size
the color of the text should be WHITE for best results

Step 3
now hide the text layer for a while and open the channels tab
choose the channel with good contrast, in this case it is blue

channel

Step 4 : Very Important

now press ctrl+A to select the current channel and press copy merged
create a new document with the same file size and save it in psd format
this file will be used later for displacing the text



Step 5
now unhide the text layer and select it
after selecting go to layer>rasterize>type
or simply right click on the text layer and press rasterize

Step 6
after rasterizing the text layer go to filter>distort>displace
a window will pop up will will ask you for the settings
choose 8 for horizontal and vertical scale for this image and click OK

Step 7
after entering settings it will ask you for the displacement file you saved before in step 4
click and open

Step 8
after applying the displacement map the effect will be visible on the text layer

Step 9
copy the background image (silk cloth) and place it above the text layer

Step 10
now double click on background copy layer thumbnail to open the blending options
or go to layer>layer style>blending options



















see the yellow highlighted area
we will make changes in this
choose blue from "blend if" drop down options

Step 11
now slide the slider to a little left
Important : Press ALT+click on the slider to break it into two
move half part of the slider to left and half to right
we could see our background layer blending with text layer and acquiring depth

Step 12
after adjusting the blending , we have our final image ready
here is before and after the displacement and blending

                                     Final Preview

Thanks for reading.
hope you like it..!

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