"Halloween Text Effect. How to create letters from pumpkin image."

 

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Used images:

• Large pumpkin - Mark Anderson
• Fire
• Pumpkin brushes
• Large Image for the wallpaper

 

• Open painting image, adjust resolution - 72px/inch 1400px height and 2000px width. You may choose different size, but some tutorial settings are depending of image size and resolution.
• Fill first layer with the radial gradient.

• Use following settings:

• Download pumpkin brushes and use one of them with the Shape Dynamic, Scattering and Transfer settings to fill out all background area with the pumpkins in a new layer.

• Apply Overlay Blending mode effect to this layer:

• Type the word "Halloween", you may use any Bold, rounded font. I used "Comic Sans MS".

• Go to Edit > Transform > Warp and apply Arc Upper transformation to the sign.

• Then choose regular round brush with hard edges to add bolder silhouette for the letters.

• You should get something similar:

• Separate pumpkin image from background, retouch spots and small defects with the Patch and Clone Stamp Tools. Also you may Increase Hue/ Saturation settings, go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation, move Saturation marker right a bit and Hue left to -7 or ~-10. Play wit the Image > Adjustments > Color adjustments, move markers from cold shades to warm.

• Duplicate pumpkin shape, transform the duplicated layer to ellipse using simple Free Transformation and place shape above the on of the letters - "a", for example.

• In order to make pumpkin shape closer to letter silhouette under it, apply Free Warp transformation. Drag corners handles and corners to change the shape.

• Make the same actions for the second duplicate of the original pumpkin shape.

• Repeat similar actions to create pumpkin shapes for other letters.

• Add layer masks to the pumpkin shapes layers.
• Load selection for the original letters, go to Select > Modify > Expand (5).
• Then erase selected area of the letters holes with the black brush when the layer mask of each letter is active.

• Remove and apply layer masks to corrected letters shapes.

• Return to the white original letters and duplicate it. Move duplicate down like on the screen shot below.
• Create a new black layer below both of original text layers. You may merge them - white sign layer plus duplicate of sign plus black background. Name this merged layer - "text".
• Return to the one of the pumpkin shapes, "e", for example.
• Go to Filter > Liquefy.
• Make visible only current layer and "text" layer below:

• Then try to correct pumpkin shape very close to the original letters using Forward Warp Tool and Bloat Tool.

• Correct all other letters with liquefy filter as well.

• Merge all pumpkin shapes layers and apply Inner Shadow and Bevel Emboss effects.