Photoshop

Learn how to create this beautiful jungle text graphic with Photoshop. This tutorial will show you how to draw vines, berries, and leaves.

Preview of Final Results

Jungle Text Photoshop Tutorial

Step 1

Hit Ctrl + N to open a new project with dimensions of 600 x 375 in RGB/8 with transparent background. For the background, you have twooptions: You can paint a simple scene with trees, shrubs, and earth then blur them and play with the curves, or you can use a picture (of your own or a freestock photo) of a nice nature scene. Here we’ve simplified this step for you as it takes time, so you can use this image for your scene. After playing with brushes, curves, and blurs, here’s what we’ve came up with

Step 2

Now you can hide this window as we’ll come back to this later, but first we need to make the leaves and berries. First you’ll need to find a leaf texture.

Step 3

After loading your leaf texture into a new project (name the layer ‘Leaf’), hit M on keyboard to select Rectangular Marquee Tool. Right-click, select Free Transform, right click again, select Warp. Now that your leave is in warp mode, click and drag the top left corner down about 1/3 of the grid, then repeat with bottom-left corner. It should look something like this:

Step 4

Now play around with the two corners, using the arms (the things with the gray circles) to pull them together creating a sharper point, like this:

Now we can use the Polygonal Lasso Tool (L) to select the excess parts to make the point sharper. Your leaf should look something like this:

Step 5

Go back to the warp tool (see step 3) and this time, move the bottom- right corner upward. Make sure the arms of this corner are parallel:

Step 6

Do the same for the top-right corner,

Step 7

Then go back to free transform, only this time use the distort and perspective functions to give it a bit of a distance perspective:

Step 8

Next, duplicate the layer with the leaf on it and drag this new layer below ‘Leaf’ layer. Warp it a little to show some difference. Repeat process as much as you like!

Step 9

On each layer you can add a simple drop shadow by double-clicking on the layer and checking the ‘Drop shadow’ box, and adjust the distance, size, and opacity of each leaf accordingly to give the leaves more depth. The larger leaf’s opacity is 64%, its distance is 23, and its size is 51. If you have a leaf directly above another, you will want to have the distance

significantly lower, as well as the size. It should be mor

e sharp and di

stinct.

Step 10

Double-click on ‘Leaf’ and check Bevel and Emboss box. Change the depth to 100%, size to 65px, and soften to 0px. You can also lower the opacity of highlight and shadow mode. Repeat with remaining layers:

Step 11

Let’s add some depth of field. Select the leaf that is below the rest then right-click on the layer in the Layer Window and select Convert to Smart Object (will allow you to change the settings of your applied filters non-destructively). Now select Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set it to 2.6 pixels. Repeat with other leaves, working your way up to the top of the layer’s list, and remember to lower the blur as you get closer to larges

t leaf. Now select the Smart Object (in the layer’s panel) of the

‘Leaf

’ layer. Hit D and paint over

the main areas of the leaf except the edges (you’ll find that this removes the Gaussian blur in the areas that you paint black.) Play around with the warping as it’s the most important (and fun!) part.

Step 12

Now that we’re done with the leaves, let’s move on to the berries! In a new project with dimensions of 600 x 458 select the Elliptical marquee tool. Hold down shift and make a selection about the size of the following then fill with #ff0000. Name this layer ‘Piece’.

Step 13

Double-click on ‘Piece’ in the layer’s panel and apply the following settings:

• Inner shadow: Opacity: 75% - Distance: 5px – Choke: 0% - Size: 38px. Make sure the ‘Use Global Light’ box is checked.
• Bevel and Emboss: Depth: 32px – Direction: Up – Size 43px : Soften 16px. Leave the rest at default.
• Gradient Overlay: Black-White gradient – Opa city: 16 – Angle: 90.

This ‘piece’ will be duplicated and shaped into a berry, but for now we can hide this layer while we plan our berry’s shape. Click the eye next to the layer. Your ‘piece’ should look similar to this:

Step 14

Make a new layer then select the Pen Tool (P). Click once in the center near the top (but not too close!)(1), hold shift, and click once more in at the bo

ttom toward the center (2). Now you have a straight line! Right click the pen tool and select Add Anchor Point. To

ward the top of the line click directly on top once and drag it to your right (3). Anchor one more point at the bottom and pull slightly toward the right (4):

Step 15

With the Pen tool still selected right click anywhere on the surface and select Make Selection. Be sure that the feather radius is set to 0 pixels.

Step 16

Once you have your selection, hit D to turn colors back to default black and white. Fill with black. Then, duplicate this layer (Ctrl + J), and then head over to Image (

at top)> Transform > Flip Horizontal. Press V, then move the top layer to the left and position till you have a black berry-like shape. If the two shapes don’t exactly fit when you move them, you can create a new layer underneath the two and p

aint in the missing pieces using the brush tool. Once done, merge the berry shape layers by Ctrl + clicking them in layers panel, right-clicking > merge layers. You can name this new layer ‘Berry Shape’.

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