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Photoshop Tutorial - Text Photo Montage
adobespot.com — I've seen this effect before, one of my teachers has Einstein made up of just letters. This tutorial shows you how you can easily do it using photoshop. Pretty cool I think.
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- fudged71, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0good tutorial :)
- DarthDaddy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Is this possible with Photoshop Elements?
- MonTemplar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Dugg. I will definitely try this out sometime.
- heartless_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Good stuff... now if only I can figure out the Gimp way to do it -_o
- PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0*quickly saves this page to desktop before getting dugg to death*
- PraiseSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a cumbersome and inefficient method of doing something extremely easy. Here's a simpler method:
1) stick your text layer under your image layer.
2) select the image layer and go to Layer -> create clipping mask
Voilá. No grayscales or other nonsense needed. - klaymen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1stop posting photosop tutorials. this is getting to be ridiculous. if you want tuts, go to pixel2life.com
- echonovember, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0digg needs a "digg this twice" mechanism. :-)
/no, i don't really mean that. it's just a cute way of saying i really like it. - lame_duck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Repeat after me. ASCII... ASCII ART... NOT TEXT PHOTO... ASCII....
- stmico, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is like a 2 button job in Illustrator which handles text alot better, especially with the new live paint option in CS2. Overall it'll takes all of about 30 seconds.
- SupaDawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PraiseSteve. never tried that. looks great. thanks.
- combatcupcake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11) stick your text layer under your image layer.
2) select the image layer and go to Layer -> create clipping mask
this will only show the image where the text is, grey levels have no effect so the final image will just be a solid color and no for instance, not show text where the picture is very bright
not to mention you want the image to be a clipping mask for the text, not the other way around
and without trying it myself to be certain of the settings, using blending modes would be far easier than this tutorial
just put the text layer on top of the image layer and set it to somethng like overlay or whatever, not only cause you probably achieve the same effect in 1 click, but you can also get other effects and styles just as easily - Metal_Guru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0combatcupcake has a point. That should work just as good.
- combatcupcake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0oh yeah... no digg cause PS tutorials ARE NOT TECH NEWS!
- Xophmeister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's pretty good - if you went to the trouble of doing it three times for each channel, then combining them, you'd get colour... Of course, if you don't have time to burn, just use the clipping mask like a couple of others are saying ;)
- combatcupcake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Xophmeister.. said DONT use clipping mask cause it wont give you the same effect.
BTW, the bottom picture of the guy... looks exactly like 1 of my bosses! - Kinsbane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0digg, this will help out a bit with some stuff coming in the future.
- danlin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"This is a cumbersome and inefficient method of doing something extremely easy. Here's a simpler method"
steve, your method is idiotic. it is essentially the same method as described accept he uses the color ranges to find the lighting ranges and makes clipping mask for 3 layers to give it a much nicer look. - Hattrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried the tut and got a reasonable result. The problem is with a image at 1024x768 and 6pt font; the psd file was 34 meg while the text was still in vector mode and photoshop was a little slow until I rasterized them. You will notice how long it took the author to get one of their creations just right which is probably from waiting on the computer.
I tried a different approach which worked well.
1) Monochrome an image as described,
2) create a text layer as described,
3) ctrl-select the text layer,
4) select the image layer and copy,
5) paste the copy of the text (as a new layer),
6) create a new layer with a good background color or design below the pasted text.
This is not a replacement method but one that uses less memory and is quicker. You can also mess around with the text layer to reduce the detail and match the article's style better. As I did it, you get a very detailed representation of the image. - gugak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Have a look at this for a "real" conversion, ASCII-style: http://jokke.dk/projects/ascii/
- Chelives1928, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0are there any other tutorials relating to this method, i found the one posted good but it was a little gray in some parts if anyone knows of any newbie methodds i would really appreciate it.
- Abydos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cool
- ghettoyi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dope
- TheVetos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just download textmedia, drag any image into it and it automatically does this
It also plays video! - Yodacola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@lame_duck
"Repeat after me. ASCII... ASCII ART... NOT TEXT PHOTO... ASCII...."
This is not ASCII.
ASCII is simple text letters that form pictures. He did something around the opposite of ASCII.
This is a neat tutorial, but the same effect can be applied in Illustrator without any hitches (i.e. Partially removing similar letters ,DPI, etc.) Maybe what I am thinking about is a different effect altogether, but it just seems a little sloppy for my taste. - graphicdesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow - Definitive Digg.
- dxxb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0good tutorial. +digg
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