Photo with text effect

[teachme]

Do any one know how to place text on the bare skin on the human body using photoshop. Trying to make a sexy photo effect using text laying across the the back of a women's body.

[tyzzy]

this tutorial could be helpful... someone else might be able to explain how to use text w/ it.
Displacement Mapping and a little Masking

[tx51210]

Change the blend mode of the text layer to either overlay or multiply to allow the shadows from the body translate thru the text. The color of the text will affect the results and different blend modes may work better. You can also play with the opacity and fill to refine the effect.

Sometimes stacking text layers with one or more blend modes will achieve better results.

If you want the text to appear like a tattoo, rasterize the text layer and give it a very small amount of gaussian blur to soften the edges. Tattoos are never really chrisp edges on skin and you may need add other distortion to conform the text to the skin.