Sign writing

[Falon]

Damien how can i make this sign writing more realistic i need it on a angle.

[Damien Symonds]

I'd start by copying a chunk of the photo with the triangular sign on it, then with Grids to help me, distort it back to a fairly even shape.  Then put the text on it:

Then fiddle with the text colour so it's more plausible.  Black ain't right, of course.  Here, I used darkish grey, on Multiply mode:

Then group those two layers, move them back into place, lower the opacity of the group, and distort it again so it fits neatly over the real triangle:

Then turn off the spare triangle layer (or delete it entirely).  Then rasterize the type layer, make it a smart object layer instead, and apply a little blur so it's plausible:

[Damien Symonds]

@Falon, what do you think?

[Falon]

Omg awesome looks good now to try and do this myself ?

[Falon]

Damien when you say move them back into place what do you mean I'm stuck on this bit I've grouped them together and i think I've done it correctly so far 

[Falon]

When I try to distort it the second time it’s only distorting the triangle back not the writing 

[Damien Symonds]

10 minutes ago, Falon said:

When I try to distort it the second time it’s only distorting the triangle back not the writing 

That's odd.  May I see a screenshot?

[Falon]

[Damien Symonds]

No, you have to have the group selected.

[Falon]

So i Have selected the group and i press control T then go to distort but i can't distort it? Am i doing this step wrong sorry I've never done this before 

[Damien Symonds]

In my version (CS5) Distort wasn't available to me in the Edit>Transform> menu.  Yours might be the same, I don't know.  But it didn't matter, I alternated between Skew, Rotate and Scale, and achieved the same thing.

[Falon]

Hows this? Thank you for your help.

Is there anything else you would fix? 

Edited June 21, 2018 by Falon

[Damien Symonds]

Maybe increase the blur just a tiny bit?

[Falon]

will do also how can I make the one side of the bow match the more yellow side (right side)

[Damien Symonds]

Sorry, can you clarify, which side of the bow do you like?

[Falon]

I like the colour closer to the proceed with cake sign

[Damien Symonds]

I reckon a Levels layer, and move the black sliders on the green and blue channels to 50 and 30 respectively.

[Falon]

[Damien Symonds]

Is that ok?

[Falon]

yes I'm happy with that thank you