Add text to complex surfaces in Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to project typography onto a complex surface.

We’ll employ some basic text, give it a little perspective, place it into our image (an abstract composition in this case, but the techniques involved are universally applicable) and apply some effects to add depth and a sense of movement. To avoid complicating the process, we’ll do this all without using Photoshop’s 3D tools.

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