Picture worth a Thousand Words

This is the same tutorial but instead of using stamps I used Text Tool (T) and just went crazy on the keyboard to fill the whole page with letters.

So pretty much I followed the tutorial stap by step.

First thing was to pick a picture of yourself then go to, Select, Color range, and once the window popped up I selected Midtones and clicked ok, then I clicked CTRL+J and got a new layer with the midtones on it, I then labled it Midtones; I did the same thing again, but this time I went and selected Shadows instead of Midtones on the Color range window, I then named the new layer Shadows. 

Next after that I Selected the Midtones layer and went to Edit, Fill; Once there I changed the Content use to 50% Gray, and clicked the  Preserve Transparency box, and then OK.

I again did the same with the Shadows layer except I changed the Content use to black. I then poked the eyes out of the background and merged the two visable layer (Midtones, Shadows).

Next I clicked the Create a New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers panel. I pressed D to make my colors the default colors. I then pressed Ctrl-Backspace to make the new layer white. Then I  used Text Tool (T) and just went crazy on the keyboard to fill the whole page with letters.

 Next I created a new layer and drug it above the Midtones layer. I then filled the layer with white by pressing CTRL+Backspace. Then I hid all the layers except the Midtones layer, and I clicked on the layer to make it active. I then pressed  CTRL+A to select all the pixels then I pressed CTRL+C to copy all the pixels.

Next I activted all the layers again a selected the Letter layer, clicked the Add Layer Mask icon on the bottom of the layer panel. I then clicked on the Layer Mask on the Letter layer by holding down ALT and clicking the Layer Mask. Then I pressed CTRL+V to paste the Midtones layer pixels onto the Layer Mask. Next I pressed CTRL+I to Invert the mask. I then clicked the Stamp picture icon.

I then added a Gradient Overlay to the Letter layer. To do that I clicked the add layer style icon (fx) on the bottom of the layer panel and clicked Gradient Overlay, I then double clicked the FX on the layer and changed the Blending Modes to Color burn, I also changed the Gradient to Rainbow, and lastly I changed the Angle to 79.

Then I was done! =]

I only had trouble with extracting the Midtones and Shadows, they kept selecting things in the background, so I took the Eraser Tool (E), and just erased the background things that it selected (and that weren't suppose to be selected).