Icon Tutorial-3 ways to do Background Text in Photoshop

[abyss_valkyrie]

Hey, guys!!I've never done a tutorial before so I hope I can get the idea across and it's not too difficult. Of course there are many ways people do fake BG+text and I personally use the Pen tool since it's easiest for me.But I was thinking of a way without the pen tool and I guess, the easiest way and hopefully the first one is just that. There are gifs for some parts to make it easier.
These are for photoshop,I use a very old (CS2,lol) version but it should work for any version.Perhaps GIMP too but I'll have to try that out before I can say it with surety.
Concrit is welcome and please ask any questions if you have. :D

1. BG text using polygonal lasso tool or eraser.


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With Eraser:


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2.Using the Eraser to erase the background and add text behind.


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I did this twice and decided to keep both since you can see that being a little rough with the erasing isn't too much of an issue. Use a big eraser and then a small one to get into the small spaces.








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Once you set the layer on 'Soft light' or any other, you can save it or try out other things.

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3. Using the Pen tool and clipping mask


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Comments

[tinny]

Niiiice! Tutorials are always great!

You know you can use layer masks instead of the eraser? It works exactly the same, just that erasing is not undoable, and layer masks are.

I also dug up a few mask tutorials for nondenomifan yesterday, here they are:

https://users.livejournal.com/-jems-/221506.html

https://good-tutorial.livejournal.com/tag/tutorial%20involves%3A%20layer%20mask

[abyss_valkyrie]

OHH!!Sweet!!I've never used layer masks and always do the 3rd method because it's also reversible!XD I'll check out the tutorials,never hurts to learn something new!:D

[shadowhunter.livejournal.com]

Nice, I wish I had your program to do text icons. Mine sucks for text placement lol and some of those steps are not in my program to follow.

[abyss-valkyrie.livejournal.com]

Awww!T_T Well,usually I have to move the text around to get the perfect positioning.
Which program do you use btw?

[shadowhunter.livejournal.com]

I use Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. I can't do a whole lot in it. I wish I could do like bendy or curved text but it won't let me.

Sorry don't know how to make these smaller in html lol.