Category: Tutorials

This tutorial will show you how to use some textures and a couple of different 3D material and light settings, as well as adjustment layers, to create a realistic chipped, painted wood text effect. Let’s get started!

This text effect was inspired by the many Layer Styles available on Envato Market. Let’s dive into this wood text Photoshop tutorial.

What You’ll Learn in This Wood Text Photoshop Tutorial

Let’s quickly run through what you’ll learn how to do in this wood text Photoshop tutorial:

• How to create wood text in Photoshop
• How to create a 3D mesh in Photoshop
• How to adjust important document settings
• How to create and merge layers and textures
• How to adjust lighting elements
• How to add and apply final layers, filters, and textures

Tutorial Assets

The following assets were used during the production of this wood text Photoshop tutorial.

• Insaniburger with Cheese font
• PlywoodPainted0057 Image 1 and Image 2 – Small
• WoodPlanksBare0050 Image 2 – Medium
• Living room and dining room by bialasiewicz (original image no longer available; try this alternative)
• Use This 160 by Inthename-Stock

1. Create the Text

Step 1

Create a new 1000 x 750px document, and fill the Background with a light gray color.

Create the wood text in Black using the font Insaniburger with Cheese. The font size isn’t important since it can be edited in the 3D Scene.

Step 2

Go to Type > Convert to Shape.

2. Create the 3D Mesh

Step 1

To get started with the 3D wood images, go to 3D > New 3D Extrusion from Selected Path.

Step 2

To access the 3D mesh settings and properties, you’ll need to open two panels: the 3D panel and the Properties panel (both found under the Window menu).

The 3D panel has all the components of the 3D scene, and when you click the name of any of those, you’ll be able to access its settings in the Properties panel. So make sure to always select the tab of the element you want to modify in the 3D panel before you change its settings in the Properties panel.

Step 3

If you select the Move Tool, you’ll find a set of 3D Modes for it to the right of the Options bar. When you choose one of those, you can then click and drag to perform changes on the selected element in the 3D panel.

3. The 3D Mesh Settings

Step 1

Select the text mesh tab in the 3D panel, and then, in the Properties panel, change the Texture Mapping to Tile and the Extrusion Depth to 35.

Step 2

Click the Cap icon at the top of the Properties panel, and then change the Bevel Width to 1 and the Contour to Half Round.

4. Front Material Settings

Step 1

This is where our 3D wood images start to become a chipped paint font.

Click the Front Inflation Material tab in the 3D panel, and then, in the Properties panel, click the Diffuse texture icon and choose Replace Texture.

Load the PlywoodPainted0057 – Image 2 image. This will help us create the chipped paint on wood effect.

Step 2

Click the Diffuse texture icon again, and choose Edit UV Properties.

Step 3

What you need to do next is adjust the Tile and Offset values until you get a result you like.

The Tile values will help you adjust the stretching of the texture, while the Offset values help you position it so that the unpainted wood appears only at the bottom of the chipped paint font text.

Step 4

Change the Bump value to 15, and then click its folder icon and choose the front material texture’s name from the list.

This will apply the same Diffuse texture to the Bump. Make sure to edit its UV Properties to match the Diffuse‘s.

5. Extrusion and Bevel Material Settings

Follow the same steps to apply the PlywoodPainted0057 – Image 1 chipped paint on wood texture to the Front Bevel and Extrusion Materials.

There’s no need to worry about the UV Properties here, because we’ll split the extrusion and modify those values later on.

6. Split and Reposition the Text

Step 1

Select the text mesh tab, and then click the Coordinates icon at the top of the Properties panel, and change the X Rotation Angle to 90.

Step 2

Go to 3D > Move Object to Ground Plane.

Step 3

With the text mesh still selected, go to 3D > Split Extrusion.

This will separate the letters you have so you can work with each of them independently.

Step 4

Pick the Move Tool, and use the 3D Axis to move the letters as you like.

The arrows at the ends of the axis move the mesh, the part below them is used for rotation, and the cubes are used for scaling. The cube in the center is used to scale the object uniformly. All you need to do is click and drag the part you want.

Step 5

Use the Move Tool‘s 3D Modes to change the Camera View, and then adjust the UV Properties of the Front Bevel and Extrusion Materials for each letter.

7. Create the Ground Plane

Step 1

Pick the Rectangle Tool, and create a rectangle that extends outside the document’s edges.

Rename the rectangle’s layer Ground Plane.

Step 2

Go to 3D > New 3D Extrusion from Selected Path, and change the Extrusion Depth to 1.

Step 3

Click the Coordinates icon and change the X Rotation Angle to 90.

Step 4

Click the Current View tab, and choose the name of the text’s 3D layer from the View menu.

8. Merge the 3D Layers and Texture the Ground Plane

Step 1

Select both 3D layers you have, and go to 3D > Merge 3D Layers.

Step 2

Place the Ground Plane mesh on top of the scene’s Ground Plane, and move it so that the text is in its center.

Step 3

Change the Camera View to a view that only shows the ground plane, without any empty areas around it.

Once you’ve done that, apply the WoodPlanksBare0050 – Image 2 texture to the Ground Plane‘s Front Inflation Material using the same texturing steps you used before in Section 4.

Note that this texture isn’t tileable, so if you find it difficult to not show its edges, you can replace it with any tileable texture you like.

9. Adjust the Infinite Light

Step 1

Click the Infinite Light 1 tab, and change its Intensity to 100 and its Shadow Softness to 30.

Step 2

Use the Move Tool to move the infinite light as shown below, or you can use the Coordinates values.

10. Add and Adjust a Spot Light

Step 1

Click the Add new Light to Scene icon at the bottom of the 3D panel and choose New Spot Light.

Step 2

Change the Intensity to 35, uncheck the Shadows box, and change the Cone value to 93.9 and the Hotspot to 47. Check the Light Falloff box, and change the Outer value to 3800 and the Inner to 666.

Step 3

Next, move the spot light as shown below.

Step 4

You can always use the Coordinates values to position the lights.

11. Adjust the Environment Light

Step 1

Click the Environment tab in the 3D panel, and then click the IBL texture icon and choose Replace Texture. Then load the Living room and dining room image.

Step 2

Change the Intensity to 20% and the Shadow Opacity to 30%.

Step 3

You can use the Move Tool to move the light texture around until you get a result you like.

12. Render the Scene

Make any other changes you like, and then go to 3D > Render.

The rendering might take a while, but you can stop any time by pressing the Esc key.

13. Add the Adjustment Layers

Step 1

Click the Create new fill or adjustment layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and choose Brightness/Contrast.

Step 2

Change the Contrast to 35.

Step 3

Add a Curves adjustment layer, and then create the curve shape shown for each Channel:

Red:

Green:

Blue:

Step 4

Add a Levels adjustment layer, and change the Shadow input value to 19 and the Gamma value to 0.85.

14. Apply the High Pass Filter

Step 1

With the Levels layer selected, press the Option-Command-Shift-E keys to create a stamp layer.

Rename the layer to High Pass, and go to Filter > Convert for Smart Filters.

Step 2

Go to Filter > Other > High Pass, and use a Radius of 10.

Step 3

Change the High Pass layer’s Blend Mode to Soft Light and its Opacity to 35%.

15. Add the Grunge Texture

Step 1

Place the Use This 160 on top of all layers, rename its layer to Texture, and go to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90° Counter Clockwise.

Change the Texture layer’s Blend Mode to Soft Light and its Opacity to 30%.

Step 2

Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, clip it to the Texture layer, and change the Saturation value to -50.

Congratulations! You’re Done

In this tutorial, we created a simple text for the chipped paint font, converted it into a 3D mesh, and adjusted its settings. After that, we created the materials, split the extrusion, repositioned the text, and added the ground plane.

Next, we worked on the lighting and camera view, and rendered the scene. Finally, we added a couple of adjustment layers to enhance the lighting and a grunge texture to finish everything off.

Please feel free to leave your comments, suggestions, and outcomes below.

Wood Textures and Paint Peeling Textures for Photoshop From Envato Elements

If you like the wood text or chipped paint font aesthetic, I’ve grabbed a few great wood textures and effects you can add to your library. How can you imagine using some of these assets? 

1. Rustic Wood Texture (JPG)

This rustic wood texture pack gives you some great variety. There are multiple colors that you can tweak in these high-quality JPG files. They’re entirely watermark-free, meaning that once you download them, you’re free to use them however you’d like.

2. 8 Wood Text Effects (PSD)

If you liked the look of wood text in the above tutorial, then you’ll love these Photoshop wood letters. This pack comes with eight different wood text effects that are changeable in Smart Object layers.

3. Paint Textures x10 (JPG)

Get a peeling paint texture for Photoshop and more with this pack. It includes ten high-resolution JPG files of photorealistic paint textures. You can use them to create phone wallpapers, flyers, and more. 

4. Wood Grain Texture Pack (JPG)

This is another excellent wood texture pack available on Envato Elements. The details of the wood grain are captured beautifully in each of the 20 included files. Use them as is or do some editing to create your perfect wood texture. 

5. Wood Letters – 3D Alphabets and Numbers (PNG)

Photoshop wood letters meet 3D wood images with this alphabet package. It includes all letters of the Latin alphabet and even includes special characters. The numbers 0-9 are also included. Drag and drop these 3D wood images into your project.

6. Vintage Cracked Grunge Textures (JPG)

This grungy texture pack comes with a lot of attitude. Each file looks like a realistic peeling paint texture perfect for Photoshop, yet they’re abstract at the same time. The cracked, chipped paint on wood effect is a perfect way to set the tone in your creative work.

7. Wood Grain Textures Template (PSD)

This last wood texture pack is massive. It includes 30 realistic wood grain textures split into different layers. Use the Smart Object layer to quickly make a chipped paint on wood look, wood text, and other rustic-themed creations.

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Have you read the stories of T-shirt millionaires spreading
around the web?

For example, TJ Mapes and two of his friends made millions after starting RIPT Apparel in 2009.
Now, thousands of people are earning a good income selling cool T-shirt designs
using print on demand.

It’s a great way to build your portfolio as a designer,
because you don’t need to worry about upfront costs, and you can quickly get
feedback on your designs based on demand. Learn all about print on demand T-shirts in this tutorial.

What Is Print On Demand and Why Does It Matter?

Print on Demand (POD) is a process where a designer teams up with a supplier to print their designs on white-label products like T-shirts, mugs, or blankets, whenever someone buys them online. 

Print on demand T-shirts are a growing market. A 2017 report from consulting firm Credence Research shows that the custom T-shirt printing market is expected to cross $10 billion by 2025.

The only con is that you’ve got no control over packaging, and the printing customization is limited to the methods used by said party. Shopify’s post on POD has more information about the pros and cons of POD. 

Print on Demand, Not as Easy as It Sounds

It’s impossible to tell which design will click. A design might
look artistic to you, but your customers might disagree. And just when you think
you’ve found a promising design, it might be too late because many designers
have seen it and are already copying the trend. 

That’s exactly what happened when POD designers started
applying the concept of this now-viral Hogwarts-themed shirt to every niche imaginable.

Without knowledge of your target market and proper research,
you could waste a lot of time and money designing POD merchandise that doesn’t
sell. To avoid that, this tutorial will cover some different ways to research
profitable designs for different POD niches and show you where to find images
and fonts to use to create those designs.

7 Best-Selling T-Shirt Niches and Print on Demand Product Ideas

Print on demand has several niches. Each niche has its own
set of slang, reasons for buying, and popular T-shirt design ideas, so knowing your
niche makes it easier for you to create items they’ll want to buy.

Below are some of the most popular T-shirt ideas, plus
some print on demand products where you can use them.

1. Pets

People love their pets, which is why the pet industry is worth $95 billion a year, based on data from the American Pet Products Association.

For cool shirt designs, you can go for the common sub-niches like dogs, cats, or birds, but there’s also a market for uncommon pets or large animals, such as horses, lizards, wolves, and hedgehogs.

Placeit has plenty of pet T-shirt templates and cool shirt ideas available to choose from, such as the one below:

2. Jokes

Check out this T-shirt graphic design idea. Statement shirts and T-shirt quotes are great conversation-starters. Humor-related POD merchandise could have funny images, punchy one-liners, nerdy jokes, or even memes.

If you want to give potential buyers a feel of what a shirt would look like when worn, use T-shirt mockups from Placeit.

3. Jobs

You might hate your job right now, but there are millions of
people who wake up every morning proud of what they do.

Jobs can make cool shirt designs. Not all jobs are popular, though—some have more passionate
employees than others. For instance, lawyers or accountants don’t get as much
love compared to nurses or firefighters.

4. Sports, Lifestyle, and Hobbies

Another reason people buy custom-printed merchandise is to
show off their hobbies, sports, or lifestyle.

Here are some best-selling T-shirt niches to consider for your T-shirt business:

1. Sports Niche Ideas

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Hockey
• Football
• Cycling

2. Hobby Niches

• Crocheting
• Gamers
• Fishing
• Bookworms
• Gardening
• Anime/Manga
• Cars

3. Lifestyle Niches

• Digital nomads
• Entrepreneurs
• Vegetarians
• Work-at-home moms (WAHM)
• Travelers
• Yoga

5. Family and Relationships

Have you ever seen T-shirt quotes saying “World’s #1 Mom” and thought, “Who
would actually wear this?”  T-shirt graphic designs like this are popular, especially on Mother’s
Day. You can also find custom-printed
items for single dads, newly-engaged women (“bride-to-be”), sibling love, newlyweds, and grandparents. There’s
even a T-shirt niche list that includes friends and co-workers.

6. Location and Travel

Almost
any tourist destination will offer cool hoodie designs, cool shirt designs, and collectibles designed based on their local attractions.

Travel T-shirt quotes, architecture, local delicacies, and maps are
also used in travel-related print on demand merchandise.

7. Seasonal Designs

Christmas sweaters aren’t the only POD item you can sell on
holidays. Seasonal designs for cool shirt ideas also include Thanksgiving, graduation,
Valentine’s, Halloween, and other holidays. Religious holidays like Hanukkah or
lesser-known holidays like National Pasta Day also have their place in the
market, but only if you time your promotions well.

How to Choose Best-Selling T-Shirt Niches

POD shirts, jewelry, shoes, and other custom-printed
merchandise are what people call “impulse
buys,” so the best way to sell them is to tap into people’s emotions.

People purchase these items because they want to show off
their individuality, whether it’s their job, pet, hobby, sport, or a country
they just visited—the design shows something about them. Keep this in mind when you’re looking for T-shirt niche ideas.

Another factor to consider when choosing a niche is the
market size. You could have a niche you’re extremely passionate about, but if there aren’t
enough people there, you’ll quickly run out of customers. One way to check a
niche’s audience size is to use Facebook’s Audience Insight tool or check the
keyword search volume for your audience on Google.

Read the following tutorials to find out how to research T-shirt niche ideas:

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Selecting a huge niche also gives you room to branch out
into sub-niches. If you want to sell job-related shirts, you can break it down into different categories such as nurses, firefighters, and teachers.
From there, you can even break it down further into smaller niches such as
pre-school teachers or ER nurses.

How to Conduct T-Shirt Market Research for Your Chosen Niche

Now that you’ve chosen a niche, it’s time to research what
to put on your designs. You can use your preferred method for
collecting information, be it bookmarks, Pinterest pins, or an Excel file. The
important thing is that you find a way to save and organize the information you
collect during this research.

Below are different ways to research T-shirt graphic designs to put on a
shirt and other print on demand products, like cool hoodie designs.

1. Finding Cool T-Shirt Design Inspiration Through Amazon Merch

If you’re looking for cool shirt ideas, Merch by Amazon is Amazon’s very own platform for POD
T-shirts.

A free tool from Merch Titans
allows you to search the cool T-shirt designs uploaded to Merch by Amazon based
on keywords, the marketplace it was uploaded to (i.e. Amazon.com or
Amazon.co.uk), and the type of merchandise (i.e. shirts or hoodies).

The search results
will show:

• Design Image
• Items sold
• Price
• Brand

The results aren’t 100% accurate as they’re based on the
tags and descriptions store owners use on listings. If a design is listed with
multiple or related keywords, they can show up in your results. 

2. Searching With Pinterest and Facebook

Facebook is a social platform, but it’s a good way to find print
on demand T-shirts because this is where competitors are promoting their
designs using Facebook ads.

Just type your niche’s keyword and the word “T-shirt” or whatever print on demand
merchandise you’re selling into the search bar. You can also use promotional
words like “on sale” or “limited time offer.” Some people search
based on POD platforms, so they use search words like “Teespring” or “Redbubble”
so they see all posts with that platform’s URL or name.

You can also filter the search results based on the date of
the post, so you only see the latest designs promoted on Facebook. 

The same method can be used to find cool hoodie designs and T-shirt design ideas
on Pinterest, except in this case you’ll use the number of “pins” to gauge a design’s popularity.
Pinterest will also help you narrow down your search by displaying popular
keywords associated with your initial search.

This cool shirt design found on Pinterest has over
1,000 pins, a good sign that cat lovers would purchase a shirt with a similar
design. 

You don’t even need to draw a cat from scratch to create
something similar to this design, as there are lots of graphic options for cat T-shirts on Placeit like the ones below:

3. Search Unique Mug and Shirt Design Ideas via Etsy

Etsy is a marketplace for hand-crafted products, but you’ll
also find print on demand products there. To find creative T-shirt design ideas,
just type your niche’s keyword in the search bar. You can also try different
keyword combinations like “niche + joke”
or “niche + another niche” to get
unique shirt design ideas.

Take note of the designs with lots of reviews, but make sure
the reviews are for the item you’re viewing and not for another design. The
reviews below are for the item “Reasons to be a mermaid mug,” but
you’ll see that last review is for a different product. 

4. Search for Cool T-Shirt Designs via POD Platforms

You don’t need to create a website to sell your POD designs
because there are dozens of marketplaces that’ll allow you to upload your
designs on their site, so you can earn when someone purchases your item from them.

Not only can these sites help you sell your cool shirt designs, they
can also help in your POD and T-shirt market research. Just type the keywords
for your chosen niche, and then filter the search results based on hot T-shirt designs
or the newest listings added.

Below are other POD marketplaces
where you can find design inspiration:

• Zazzle
• Skreened
• Snorg
• Spreadshirt

You can also search for T-shirt
ideas on Teeview, a website that
consolidates designs from Teespring, Sunfrog, and Teezily.

5. Searching for Unique Shirt Designs via Google Images

Finally, there’s the tried
and tested method of searching for T-shirt design inspiration using Google
Images. Go to https://images.google.com, and then type the niche you’re trying to research.

Try a combination of different keywords, such as:

• Niche + funny
• Niche + joke
• Niche + quotes
• Niche + slang

Google Autosuggest will also show
you other phrases to use in your research.

The search results may not be
limited to shirts, but some of these quotes are short and snappy enough that you
can easily fit them into a mug or hoodie. 

Caution: Many of the images you’ll find on Google images are copyrighted. Be careful not to use an artist’s images or copyrighted items to avoid a lawsuit. Use the results of this search for inspiration only. 

Combine some of the quotes here
with a professionally designed running T-shirt template design on Placeit, and you’ll have some wall decal or T-shirt ideas
ready for a promo test.

6. Searching T-Shirt Design Ideas via Reddit and Other Social Platforms

Your niche doesn’t have to be
news or politics for this tip to be useful for you. Whatever is trending in
your niche, there’s a good chance that you’ll find a clever quip about it in
one of these platforms.

Platforms where you can search trending, viral, or meme items:

• 9Gag. A
  website and social site where you can publish and curates jokes and memes for a
  variety of niches.
• 4Chan. It’s similar to Pinterest in a sense
  that it’s a bulletin board for images, but the difference is you don’t need an
  account and you’ll see lots of comments on some images, which might be helpful
  in your research
• Reddit. The site is divided into different
  communities, and some communities will have sub-groups (a.k.a. “subreddit”) to
  further organize the conversations. The best posts get the most replies and
  votes (a.k.a. “upvotes”) from community members. 

Not everything you find in these
websites is applicable to POD, as the majority of the information you’ll find here isn’t commercialized. These are just people talking about all sorts of things, so
you’ll need some creativity to imagine how the information can be translated to
a hoodie or POD blanket design.

The relationship category on 9Gag
is full of jokes and complaints about relationships. But there are posts like the
one below where the image’s concept or a text version of it might work well on an
apparel design. It’s also a good sign that the post has over 2,600 points and
100 comments.

Caution: Be careful not to use an artist’s
images or copyrighted items to avoid a lawsuit. 

You can find many unique quotes
on subreddit threads, and almost none of these quotes are trademarked because
these are from ordinary Reddit users being their sarcastic or funny selves.
Unfortunately, digging into Reddit to find puns and jokes is a chore because
there are so many active conversations to track.

Simplify your research easier by
searching for “pun trains,” the term
used when users play off on each other’s puns. Another way is to look up
Reddits dedicated to jokes. You can also find a detailed tutorial of using
Reddit to search T-shirt designs on MerchPursuits.

7. Combining Niches to Create Cool T-Shirt Designs

Combining niches allows you to
hone in on a more specific target customer, while giving your designs a
unique and authentic feel.

One typical example of this is
the “Niche + Born in (month)” combo,
where you combine a positive trait or niche with a target buyer’s birth month.
Designs like this make the buyer feel special, because they think they’ll be
one of the few with an item like it.

Here’s a combined niche idea:
Mermaids + birth month via Etsy. Use a different image or icon, combine it with
a unique typeface, and you’ll get a unique design ready to sell.

You can also combine relationship
and job niches, like this design for a “Mom who raised a firefighter” shirt from Etsy.

A Word on Avoiding Copyright Issues and Using Mashups or Parody

Some designers and POD entrepreneurs use mashups and parody
to avoid copyright problems. Since ideas are too vague to copyright, a
different execution of one idea from a popular franchise or trademarked
character, as happens in parodies and mashups, presents a gray area for
designers.

For instance, the idea for a hilarious dad can’t be copyrighted, but the plot and character details that make up the character’s personality can
be protected by copyright. That’s why Peter Griffin of Family Guy can’t be
considered a copyright infringement of Homer Simpson. Whatever similarities
they have, they also have differences in storylines and character traits, which
makes both of them independent, and they could separately be copyrighted.

That’s why ‘fair use’
is a typical defense against copyright claims.

Unfortunately, “only a legal court can decide whether a
design falls under fair use and because lawsuits involving copyright claims are
usually complex and involve heavy fine plus settlement, they are tried at the
Federal level”, according to Atty. VikasBajaj. 

Of course, you want to avoid getting into court in the first
place. Teespy has a few pointers that can help you avoid that in this post.

Where to Find Images, Fonts, and Mockups for Your Chosen Designs

Former graphic designer and current Bootcamp Media CEO Jimi Shabir, says, “It’s always better to create unique images, especially
if you’re creating something to be sold. But sometimes, using stock photos is a
necessary shortcut to multiply your design output.”

Shabir has a point. If you spend days perfecting one design,
you’ll find it hard to test new designs fast, and your designs may already be a
saturated trend by the time they hit the market. Using stock images creatively will help you design more
items faster.

Vladimir Gendelman, founder and CEO of Company Folders, Inc., also works with customers who use stock images on the items they want to print for their business. Because of this, he always advises clients to get their stock image from a reputable provider.

He adds, “Most stock image services label their images so you know which ones you can and cannot use commercially, or if additional protection or ‘rights’ should be purchased. Using a service will not only protect you from breaking the law, but you’ll also get high-quality images that will print nicely on your products.”

Placeit is a good source for design templates, mockups, and other design elements you may need. 

Explore More Apparel and T-Shirt Design Ideas

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Remember what famous writer Austin Kleon wrote, “Steal like an Artist.” Don’t copy other
people’s designs; use them as inspiration to create something better or unique. I hope you’ve gotten plenty of inspiration from this tutorial.

In the case of designers, this means trying a different font, angle, icon, color, or image. With proper research, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel to come up with a unique and profitable design. Try the research methods mentioned here, and don’t forget to use images safe for commercial
use, such as those found on Placeit.