Typography as Texture

This week's assignment is to use typography as texture --- use some text as a typography texture for a picture that's related to the text.

The text I choose is:

The sapling that bears our mark of love has grown into a big tree, 
but our once fervent love is lost forever in the wind. 
The little mark has become a scar. 
When the wind blows, we hear the sigh of the forest... 

And I especially create a picture to match this text. Here are the pictures I used:

Tree

Girl with Umbrella

Stained Paper Texture

Grass

Tree Bark Texture

Sky

Leaves

1. Create a new document.

2. Select part of the sky from the Sky picture, and drag it to the new document.

3. Open the Grass picture. Copy a layer, select the parts you want, refine the edges, and set it as Difference mode.

4. Open the Tree picture. Copy a layer. Select the picture, make it inverse. Add a Threshold adjustment layer as clipping mask. Open the Tree Bark Texture picture and drag it on top of the Threshold adjustment layer and set it as Multiply mode. Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to lower the saturation of the Tree Bark Texture's color.

5. Draw a rectangular black box as part of the ground.

6. Drag the selected grass on top of the black rectangle.

7.Add a Level adjustment layer as clipping mask to darken the grass.

8. Add a Hue/Saturation layer as clipping mask to lower the saturation of the grass.

9. Drag the Tree picture on top of the ground and flip it vertically.

10. Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer as clipping mask to again lower the saturation of the tree.

11. Select the girl from the Girl with Umbrella picture and drag it on top of the new document.

12. Make a copy of the Sky layer, Average Blur it, and set as Soft Light mode, then put it on top of the Girl layer.

13. Add some leaves.

14. Make a comp layer and make a copy of this layer, and use the burn tool to burn the white edges.

15. Make another comp layer. Put the text on. Set the layer as Difference mode and lower the opacity. Add a layer mask to mask out some of the text.

16. Open the Paper Texture picture, drag it on top of the text layer. Set it as Overlay mode.

Finally...