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Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

psdtuts.com — Ever wanted to make text out of grass? Well with Photoshop you can. In this tutorial we'll create a rather cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool and a bit of patience.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 23, 2008

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  • blogspinner, on 05/23/2008, -16/+97Neat technique to learn. Obviously, it can be used for anything, not just grass.
  • OpticalLiam, on 05/23/2008, -18/+79These comments suck.
  • JosefH, on 05/23/2008, -11/+39I'm ready. Digg me down.
  • CrimsonBlur, on 05/23/2008, -26/+43I was going to bury this as spam but it's actually pretty neat, so dugg :)
  • bigmrjohn, on 05/23/2008, -1/+20why were you going to bury it as spam?
  • warrenterr, on 05/23/2008, -3/+17Yes, instead of a picture with grass, use one with dirt.
  • nonsalant, on 05/23/2008, -4/+16See the CC link below the image? (flickr page, size large)

    Quoting the Creative Commons ("some rights reserved"):

    You are free:
    * to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
    * to Remix — to adapt the work
    Under the following conditions:
    * Attribution [...]

    "Extra lame points for linking to the image"... Extra lame points for being lame.
  • renegadeafk, on 05/23/2008, -5/+13***** THING SUCKS!
  • afx1, on 05/23/2008, -3/+12they lost me at "bit of patience"
  • insomniacal, on 05/23/2008, -10/+18I'll stick with the "grow grass in letter-shaped containers" method. Much faster.
  • griz, on 05/23/2008, -2/+10"the shadow still looks a bit fake."
    Might be shopped.
  • Shuk, on 05/23/2008, -5/+13I was hoping that the catch wouldn't be to actually use the pen tool to edge out the blades of grass. That's way too tedious.
  • rspeed, on 05/23/2008, -0/+5You can do a search for just CC-licensed images. It's an option in the advanced search.
  • kyle212, on 05/23/2008, -1/+6When will people learn, when asked to:
    -Digg down diggers digg up
    -Digg up diggers digg down.
  • starbuxadct, on 05/23/2008, -0/+5You must use Publisher. lol.

    Good design takes a little effort.
  • trexdave, on 05/23/2008, -2/+6Paint.NET attempt:
    http://www.filedropper.com/earth_1
  • helikopter, on 05/23/2008, -1/+5i guess we missed it cause of the fact that it was such an overall lame comment
  • inactive, on 05/23/2008, -0/+3You don't do it for every single blade, just one every once and a while so it looks nice.
  • AgentVladimir, on 05/23/2008, -1/+4Having worked on a student paper, I've spent many hours trawling through flickr desperately trying to find that CC sign.
  • BevansDesign, on 05/23/2008, -1/+4Yea, looks nice. Although, the shadow still looks a bit fake. I'd probably blur it so it doesn't look so streaky, or something.
  • imbatman05, on 05/23/2008, -2/+4Do the same thing with a dirt texture?
  • darlyn, on 05/23/2008, -0/+3PSDTuts always offers good tutorials, all for free. Much better than all the repetitive crap most websites post every week. Plus, the site is gorgeous.
  • Keimatsu, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2That's what she said.
  • fydo, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2Yeah, doing actual work is terrible! This guy should have just written a Photoshop plugin called "Spectacular Grass Text Effect" instead of making us waste our time reading his tutorial! *rolleyes*

    I've said it before and I'll say it again, Photoshop is not the place to practice your ADD.
  • verdouxkai, on 05/24/2008, -0/+2It really didn't take me that long - once you get the technique down, the tediousness definitely pays off! http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x13/verdouxkai/ ...
  • inactive, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1There were 4 people who dugg this? What the hell is wrong with you people?

    Linux is a legitimate operating system, so stop clogging my intertubes with stupid *****. Goes same for most other forms of stupid.
  • calenlas, on 05/24/2008, -0/+1Agreed. Were I to do it, I'd use my basic text layer as a mask, just painting white over the blades of grass I wanted to stick out, then just pop that black & white layer into my selection and punch it out. Much faster than using the pin and bezier paths and still easy to adjust later.

    Additionally, you'd save yourself a lot of time by applying layer effects, shadows, and so on to all the letters at once instead of applying the same set of a dozen or more adjustments to each letter individually.
  • Narrwald, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1"Obviously".
  • jordan314, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1Dugg for the background. I think the dropshadow looks a little cheesy but everything else looks great.
  • Kiel, on 05/23/2008, -19/+21I love that this tutorial, and many of the psdtuts.com tutorials, aren't just about the tools. It gives you a little bit of a handbook, and fresh way of thinking and a lot of inspiration. But you could also just copy it and learn a lot :)
  • jmkiii, on 05/23/2008, -3/+4*than
  • repmekevets, on 05/23/2008, -0/+2dugg for not saying the magic word.
  • arcticblue, on 05/23/2008, -2/+3Yep, buried and reported each person above you. Funny how they all post nearly the same thing at exactly the same moment.
  • twrife, on 05/24/2008, -0/+1Are you serious?
  • Chronoped, on 05/23/2008, -3/+4like they said, GRASS :)
  • dragon76, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1I think that's what gives it a cool "photo-realistic illustration" look that's so popular now with all the kiddies.
  • EasyEve, on 06/09/2008, -0/+1this is so crazy its dope- i must use this effect.
  • Gusso, on 05/23/2008, -1/+2no, you guys are the idiots =/

    joshcxa made the funniest comment here, and you just didn't get it
  • ligyron, on 05/23/2008, -3/+4Because it doesn't add anything new to what blogspinner has already said
  • joshcxa, on 05/23/2008, -2/+2see. sarcasm...it works on the internet
  • nicoroberti, on 05/29/2008, -0/+0Agreed, this time if your luky enough to have a palette or are a shift click master, it's quicker painting a mask. Pen tool is more usefull to have a sharp straight or curved line. and anyway, the hardness of your brush can be chosen at all times. i don't think that an inverted selection then erase is a good solution. But i really like the wind effect in the shadow, really looks like it's made by grass
  • xkorbin, on 05/23/2008, -1/+1First time eh?
  • repmekevets, on 05/23/2008, -1/+1why do you still use 5.0? just pirate cs3..
  • inactive, on 05/23/2008, -2/+1People with sandy vaginas are invading this topic, digging down everything that doesn't tell them to.
  • Bosox958, on 05/23/2008, -2/+2Its spectacular! Well, rather cool at least...
  • Mattja, on 05/23/2008, -2/+1I read your name as Josef F and was like ?!?1?
  • smackjack, on 05/23/2008, -3/+3no
  • lunabee, on 05/23/2008, -2/+2Great tutorial, i will deffs use it.
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