Tiled Text Effect

Resources:

Basic Font from dafont.com

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This will be the finished result:

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Open a new document 800 x 800, 72px resolution

Fill the background with black

Create a new layer

Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool and set the Style to Fixed Size. Set the size at 100px x 100px:

Click once on the canvas to get a square selection, and fill it with white. Do not deselect

Duplicate the layer

Make the original layer active

Select>Modify>Contract – set to 3, click OK

Fill the new selection with a colour of your choice (below I list the colours I used)

Duplicate the copy layer

Make the copy layer active

Ctrl + Click on the thumbnail in the layers palette to select the pixels

Select>Modify>Contract – set to 3, click OK

Fill the new selection with a colour of your choice

Continue in this way until you have six squares

Colours I used:

Red #D15050

Blue #708DCF

Orange #F4BF59

Green #5B9E61

Purple #CF75D0

Yellow #ECF169

Using the Move Tool and the Arrow Keys, arrange the squares as shown below:

Turn off the visibility of the background layer

Right click on any visible layer and click on Merge Visible

Ctrl + T to transform the object and change the size by setting the height and width to 75% along the top menu bar:

Duplicate the layer 8 times and arrange the tiles as shown below:

Turn off the visibility of the background layer

Right click on any visible layer and click on Merge Visible

Restore visibility to all layers

Select the Text Tool, Basic Font, size 200pt, foreground colour white

Type in your required text

Right click on the layer in the layers palette and click on Rasterize Type

Place the tiles under the text – duplicate the layer if you have to, when it is aligned, right click on the layer in the layers palette and click on Merge Down

Make the text layer active

Select the Magic Wand Tool and holding down the Shift key, select the inside of each letter of your text

Select>Modify>Expand – set to 2, click OK

Select>Inverse

Make the tiles layer active and hit the delete key

Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Bevel & Emboss settings:

Make the text layer active, double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Bevel & Emboss settings:

Below are images of the finished project and  examples of the same method using  patterned tiles:

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