Create a Sweet Chocolate-Coated Text Effect

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Support Material

• Cadice font (Free)

Step 1

Open a new document in Photoshop. Since I want to create a wallpaper, my size is 1920×1200 pixels, but you can set up to the size of your desktop. Resolution is 72 pixels/inch, which is perfect while working on a computer destined project.

Step 2

Using the Candice font, write “Sweet” with the Horizontal Type tool (T). Font size is 380pt. Choose a light color because we will print this document and we will sketch over the text to create the chocolate pending effect.

Step 3

Print the image. I think it’s easier to create the chocolate effect on paper rather than immediatly use the pen tool. For those who have a tablet, it’s more convenient to work directly in Photoshop. However I decided to dirty a bit my hand.

Start painting the chocolate as shown in the following screenshots:

Step 4

Scan the image and paste it on your Photoshop document. Place it above the text and reduce the opacity of the sketch at around 30%. In this way you can take the sketch as a reference while using the pen tool in the next step

Step 5

With the pen tool in Paths mode start tracing the chocolate border. Start from the “S”

Step 6

Create a new layer and set the foreground color to brown (#602b0b). With the pen tool still active, right-click on the canvas and select “fill path”. In the next window set “use foreground color” and hit OK. Right click again and select “delete path”.

Step 7

Use the same technique to create the other shapes, then hide the sketch layer visibility.

Select all the chocolate shapes and group them (ctrl+G) to make order.

Step 8

At this point we will add some layer styles. Let’s start from the text. Hide the chocolate group for the moment. Right-click on the text layer and select “blending options”. We will add gradient overlay, bevel and emboss, satin and inner shadow. The aim is to create a kind of golden 3d text effect. The following screenshots will show the settings.

The text is complete. It remembers me text effects used on cereal packaging.

Step 9

We can now make visible chocolate group and select the first shape, in my case the chocolate that covers the letter “S”. Right-click and select blending options to play again with layer styles. We will add bevel and emboss, satin and inner glow to create the chocolate-styled effect.

Step 10

Copy this layer style (right-click>Copy Layer Style) and paste it on all the other chocolate layers. Just one thing to modify: about the bottom chocolate mark, increase the bevel and emboss size. We’ve done! You can add a nice radial gradient to the background to finalize the work.