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Artistic text on an artistic background

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Start by creating a leaf ornament shape using custom shape tool.

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Select the shape area using rectangular marquee tool.

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From edit menu select define pattern. i named this pattern "artistic".

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Fill the background layer with a nice radial gradient.

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Type the text in a new layer with a font, bold enough to let the patter show from within.

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Double click the layer to open layer style window. Apply pattern overlay. From pattern fly out select the pattern "artistic" u created in previous steps.

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Apply other layer styles with settings shown.

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The text will look like this after applying above layer styles.

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Use same custom shape that was used to create pattern and draw to fill the background with just one block of the shape.

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Change layer mode of this layer to overlay.

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In a new layer draw a circle using elliptical shape tool.

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Copy layer style from text and paste on this circle layer.

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Rasterize the layer. Ctrl+Click to get the selection. Contract the selection by 5 pixels. Press Ctrl+Alt+D to feather the selection. I used 20 pixels setting. press delete to remove the inner area of the circle.

Artistic Text On an Artistic Background

It's optional but you can use eraser tool with a soft brush setting to remove some hard lines of the circle below the text.