Photoshop Design and Photo editing Tutorials from HowTech's video: How to Add Realistic Text to Anything in Photoshop How to Blend Text into a Photo in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn How to Add Realistic Text to Anything in Photoshop. If you are trying to superimpose text onto any surface in a photo, this is the tutorial for you. We are going to start off by creating the text and roughly positioning it where it needs to be. Once done, let’s right click on text and click convert to smart object. Now we can skew it to better fit the layer, by pressing CMD+T and while pressing CMD drag the corners around. When done double click on the image to confirm transformation. Now for the part that’ll make the text seem like it’s part of that surface. Make the text layer invisible and select background layer. Add a levels adjustment layer. Let’s get a contrasty enhanced look for the surface that we want the text to be on. We’ll use this afterwards as our displacement map. Don’t worry about how this looks, it won’t be used as is. Let’s save this as a PSD file to be used as a displacement map. Now to make the magic happen, let’s disable the curves layer, enable the smart object layer with text. Go to filter - Distort - Displace. We’ll go with a small number here, as we’re trying to be subtle with the effect. Click OK and select our displacement map. Depending if the effect is too strong or too weak, you can edit the numbers by double clicking on the displacement map effect. From here on, we can use clipping masks to draw some highlights and shadows. To add the texture onto the text even more, we’ll also copy the background, put it on top of the text, make it a clipping mask, desaturate it and change the blending mode to Soft Light. There are a lot of tweaks you can do further such as adding bevel and emboss to text, if the image would benefit from it. It all depends on your specific situation with the image. But this tutorial should help you get 90% there with any situation! ❓💬 What other specific techniques would you like us to cover? Please let us know in the comments. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ✅ All our announcements are available here https://t.me/howtechtv ✅ Commercial questions info@howtech.tv ✅ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/howtechprojects ✅ Twitter https://twitter.com/howtechprojects