Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand. You may get .psd* file of "Sea Foam Text Effect" Photoshop tutorial by making a payment . Put the tutorial title in "Add special instructions to seller" line of PayPal and it will be sent to you shortly.

 

  • Choose soft round and translucent(~30%) Eraser Tool and erase left side of black and white foam layer. This action will help to create volume effect.
  • You may see processed areas(red shade) on screen shot below:

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

  • Make Foam text layers invisible for a while.
  • In order to create wet sand effect, select sand area just like on the screen shot below.
  • In order to select top contour you may use wave shape file. Insert this file to the Photoshop document, align it above original wave. Ctrl + Click wave contour thumbnail. Then invert selection, go to Select > Invert.

  • Subtract bottom part of sand from selection. You may use Lasso Tool. Bottom contour of selected sand area shouldn't be very smooth.

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

  • Copy selected area of the sand.
  • Paste it into a new layer above the original "sand and wave layer".
  • Go to Image > Auto Contrast. Then load selection for foam text layer and remove selected text area from the wet sand layer.

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

  • Make foam text layers visible again.
  • Create a new layer above all created layers.
  • Load selection for the wave contour and text, fill selection with any color in a new layer, adjust Fill = 0% and apply layer style effects.

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

  • Insert Shell image, erase white background.
  • Duplicate shell layer. Apply to the bottom shell layer Fill = 0% and Gradient Overlay effect. In order to create shadow effect, move this shape left and down a bit. Do the same actins for the crab image.

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

Here is the result!

Learn how to create realistic sea foam text effect and how to apply sea/ocean foam pattern to the text shape on the beach sand.

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