Beginner – Animal Skin Text

A few quick steps to achieving an animal skin text effect.

In this tutorial I will show you a quick way to apply animal skin to your text. This process is simple and easy for all to understand with little Photoshop knowledge.
I do suggest using a fairly large size image of skin or creating your own on a bigger scale.
It is also better to do one letter at a time so you do not get seams in the texture.

At the end of the tutorial I will show you how to define the texture as a pattern to use in this tutorial.

First thing you want to do is select your “Type Tool” and create your letter.

Now select the “Add a Layer Style” at the bottom of your layer palette, and select “Pattern Overlay”.

Then select the pattern you would like to use on your text.
In this example I chose a Cheetah skin I had already defined.

Next adjust your scale to the size that suits you. You may sometimes see that the pattern creates a seam. Simple readjust your scale a bit to remove it.