Open up the surface you want to work on, for this case, it's a piece of wall with words already on it.

Add a Type layer to the message, experiment with a few fonts to get the desire results.

Play around with the character settings in order to get closest to the original message.

Rasterize the Type layer before continuing.

Right click on the layer and click on Blending option. Note the settings below.

You can separate the sliders and limit the amount of pixel invisibility by holding down the Alt/Option key and click/dragging one half of a slider. Look out on the text while doing this to ensure not too much of the type is disappearing.

Note how the paint and mortar appears through the text.

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