Sunday, May 16, 2010

Photoshop Tutorial Basics #1 Text wrap on pictures

Tutorial # 1 Basic Text wrapping on a picture

In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to create a basic text wrap effect. Let’s begin by opening a picture in Photoshop that you want to see in text format. I used this one:

Desaturate the image (Ctrl+Shift+U), then Add layer mask (Layer>Add Layer Mask>Reveal All). Select all (Ctrl+A), copy selection (Ctcl+C). Then go to Channels (Window>Channels). Select Layer1 mask and make it visible. Then paste (Ctrl+V) and deselect (Ctrl+D).


Go back to Layers (Window>Layers), select Layer Thumbnail and fill everything with white.


Create new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N), fill it with white and bring it to Back (Ctrl+Shift+[). Now select Text tool and highlight the entire canvas area. Then copy text from any source and insert it in the highlighted area. I used the standard filler text (for practice i use this standard text... but you can use any txt you want, but for the meantime use this), “Lorem Ipsum Dolar Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.”



You should come up with something like this:

For a really convincing effect you can simply duplicate the layer with text (Ctrl+J). Also, you can choose the layer with solid white color (without mask) and fill it easily with shades of grey (#e0e0e0). Although this would be cheating, inasmuch as the image is easily painted with its original colos, but at the same time this increases the quality and is not terribly noticeable.

Here’s what I came up with as a result:



Goodluck to your work :) ... see you again to another tutorial
comments and questions are appriciated thanks - dot.JPEG


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