Tutorial 3: Step by step

Everybody loves money! In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use money as filling on text. Steps are very simple. Here goes:

Step 1:

Open all the required images in photoshop. Select the city image. Then go to PATHS, select the word SAVING by selecting the thumbnail and pressing the CTRL key at the same time. Next go to CHANNELS, create a new ALPHA layer.


Step 2:

Next drag the money into the middle of the background. Arrange the money over the text 'saving'. Then select the 'saving' layer. Go back to the money layer. Then press CTRL + SHIFT + I to select the outer area of the word saving. Hit delete.

Step 3:

To enhance the color of money, i used LEVELS to adjust the shadow input. Next, to make it more interesting, I changed the color by using COLOR BALANCE and HUE / SATURATION. Play around with the setting to achieve different result.

Step 4:

Now to make it more realistic, I've added DROP SHADOW to the word saving. So the word will be well blended with the background. For final touch up, a little adjustments on BRIGHTNESS and CONTRAST and LEVELS are made.