A Picture Worth A Thousand Words by David Cross

Hola! To begin editing I had to choose a picture that was light. I began with opening another new document and picking five different texts. I selected the pixels of all five of them going one at a time and saving them as a brush. To save them as a brush I selected them and and went to Edit, define Brush Preset then and WA-LA! It's in with the brushes. After that, I went back to the photo and Went to the Select menu, Color Range, then shadows. I did the same steps to get midtones: Select menu, Color Range, then midtones. I began to fill the layers in with black and gray by I hid the background layer from view. I made midtones active by clicking on midtones, went to Edit, fill, and used 50% gray. I kind of did the same with shadows: Edit, fill, and clicked on black. This step fills the photo with black and gray. I then made the background layer active again; I clicked on the shadow layer, and presses Control E to merge it with the midtones layer. Then After I was done with all of that I went to my brushes and picked one of my five texts and clicked F5 to get all these fun options to tilt the word, space the text. I did the same with the other four. I also changed the opacity and flow to 100% because I like the darkness of it.