Star Wars The Clone Wars Text Effect
Create a stunning Star Wars The Clone Wars Text logo in photoshop.
Step 1
Begin with a new black page. The one we created is 1024×768.

Step 2
You will need the starwars font. I found one at the follow website http://www.dafont.com/.
Now write the text ” Clone Wars”
What i want to do is use a nice gunge text to use on a star wars poster.

Step 3
Double click on the layer to enter the Blending Options menu. Here use my settings:

Step 4
Next you need to duplicate the layer by clicking Ctrl + J. In the Blending Options Menu use these settings:

Step 5
Set the Fill of the layer to 0%.

Step 6
Next I will add some more text and place it on the bottom of the Clone Wars text. Also I will use some different settings:

Step 7
In the next step I will use the Rectangle Tool to make some simple shapes.

Step 8
Now for all these 3 shapes add my settings for the Blending Options.

Step 9
Make a new layer over all the layers and name it Gold.
Ctrl + Click on all the layer thumbnails to make a selection.

Step 10
Next go to Select - Modify - Expand and use 3 pixels.

Step 11
Make sure you have the Gold layer selected.
Set the foreground color to #fcff00 and fill the Gold layer with this color.

Step 12
Set the layer to Soft Light and Opacity to 35%.

Step 13
Create a new layer and name it texture.
Fill the layer with #7e4f2f. Next go to Filter - Noise - Add noise and use my settings.

Step 14
Next go to Filter - Blur - Motion Blur and again use my settings:

Step 15
Next you need to add one more effect to this texture. Go to Filter - Sharpen - Unsharp Mask and again use my settings:

Step 16
Ctrl + Click on the Gold layer thumbnail to make a selection. Now that the text is selected make sure you have the texture layer selected and Add a layer Mask. Last set the layer to Overlay.

Step 17
Next I will bring in a texture that I found on this link: http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=599574
I have imported the texture to the document and resized it so it will fit into my image size. Next you need to go to Image - Adjustments - Desaturate to make the image Black and White.

Step 18
Again as we did with the first texture we need to make a selection of the text and Add a Mask to the layer. So please do that right now. Basically you will repeat Step 16 but this time for a different layer.

Step 19
The last thing we will do for this second texture is to set it to 63% Opacity and Overlay.

Final
You are finished. If you want you can add some more lights or shadows to the text.
Thanks for reading this tutorial !
Hope you liked it !




