First, we need a new document. Create a new layer then we need to change our foreground color to a really dark brown and our background color to a lighter brown (lighter than the foreground, but still in the dark area). After chosing the colors, go to Filters - Render - Clouds.
After this, go into the Layers Palette and change the opacity of this layer to around 75%. Create a new layer and change the foreground color to a lighter brown (around the current color of your background) and the background to a really lighter brown. Again, go to Filters - Render - Clouds.
Once you did that, go to Layers Palette and change the Blending Mode to Multiply. At this point turn off these 2 layers and click on the background. Press D to reset foreground and background colors to black and white. Go to Filters - Noise - Add Noise. Check Gaussian and Monochromatic, play around with the sliders and hit OK. Values don’t really matter, you will still get the effect. After you applied Noise, go to Filters - Stylize - Emboss. Set and Angle of 45 degrees, Height of 1 and you can play around with the slider for Amount. When you’re ready, hit OK.
Now go again in Filters, but this time in Texture - Craquelure and set the following settings then hit OK.
Turn back on the hidden layers. At this point, this is how your Layers should look like:
Your leather background is already done now. Let’s add some text that looks like is patched with leather. On top of all layers add some text. The color don’t matter, because we will change the Blending Mode.
Now to this text, add the following layer styles:
There you go! The final result should be like this:
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