Oil Painting And Collapse Text Effects

Create a new document (640x480). Then open this photo:

Use any cutting tool to cut the model out of background then drag to the document

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Name the model layer is Ellen.

Go to Filter > Artistic > Dry Brush, set options:

Duplicate Ellen twice then make them be black and white.

Set the topmost layer to Overlay (opacity 83%) and the second layer to Linear Light (opacity 41%) This is what you will get:

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Duplicate Ellen (main), put this new one under Ellen and move it to right. Name it is E-BG.

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Then fill it with #FFFFFF.

Create a new layer and put it over E-BG. Choose Text Tool:

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Copy any text paragraph that you like (I use Far Away From Home lyric in this case) then edit your character palette until you see it's ok.

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Right click on the text layer, click Rasterize Layer.

Select E-BG. Go to Select > Load selection. Press Ctrl + Shift + I to choose the outside selection:

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Click Layer Text then hit Delete.

Now you get this:

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Duplicate layer Ellen main, put it under Ellen then fill it with #e0e0e0 to make shadow.

Choose Text tool to write something you like, in this tutorial I wrote "Far Away From Home".

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Right click and select Rasterize Layer

Use Lasso Tool to get selection on each letter, then press Ctrl+J to to separate each letter from sentence

Press Ctrl + T to transform. Your result:

Continue to repeat this step with all remaining

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Now merge all the text layer together.

Use Lasso Tool to make selection like this:

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Then hit Delete.

Decorate your text with blending option:

Continue to type more text to decorate your work. In this case, I use warp text

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Remember to rasterize layer so as you can use Transform.

This is my result:

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Now create a new layer over Ellen BG. Use this brush to fill on your work (Download brush)

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Finally, you merge all layers together then open Hue/Saturation (Ctrl+U) to adjust the color of artwork

Here is my final result:

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