Awesome Milk Typography Effect in PhotoshopListThumbs
Awesome Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop
Following the series of effects with text, there were the Water, Clouds, Light, and also some time ago the Frilly Bits... Now I will show you how to create a nice effect I saw a few months ago on DeviantArt that is a text mixed with some milk splashes. We will use Photoshop and Illustrator for this tutorial.
The idea is very simple, I used some stock photos and a very blocky typeface. Instead of wasted my time looking for the perfect font, I decided to create it in Illustrator. So the first steps I will show you how to create the font and then in the others, in Photoshop, I will show you how to mix that with the photos.
Step 1
Open Adobe Illustrator and go to View>Show Grid. Then select the Rectangle Tool (M) and create 2 squares and 2 rectangels like the image below.
Step 2
To create the M select the Pen Tool (P) and add 2 points 2 blocks away from the center.
Step 3
Add 2 more points and the move then nudge them up 2 blocks.
Step 4
Now add another point in the very middle of the line and then nudge that point down 1 block. Use the image below for reference.
Step 5
To finish the M, again with the Pen Tool (P) add 3 new points but move only the middle one down.
Step 6
For the other letters it's pretty much the same, use the Pen Tool (P) and use the same technique we used for the M. Use the image below for reference.
Step 7
Open Photoshop and create a new document, I used 1920x1200 pixels for the size. Then copy the letters from Illustrator and paste them in Photoshop. Each font has to be in one layer. The Background will be black white the word will be white.
Step 8
To create the milk splashes I used some stock photos. You can download the first image at http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-27264406-splash-in-a-milk-glass.html.
Step 9
Copy the image and paste in the document. Go to Edit>Transform>Scale and resize it so it fits the width of the M. With the Eraser Tool (E) delete some areas at the bottom of the photos. Also with the Stamp Tool (S) paint the parts where you can see the glass, the idea is to hide the glass and leave just the milk parts.
Step 10
With the Eraser Tool (E) erase the part of character M on the top right corner where the effect wasn't looking really nice with the milk spalsh.
Step 11
For each character we will use a different photo, that way the effect will look more convincing. You can use only one and just tweak it with the warp tool as well. The photo I used for the "I" can be downloaded at http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-12058783-splash-in-a-milk-glass.html
Step 12
Paste the image in the photoshop document then with the Magic Wand Tool (W) select the black area of the image and delete it. Go to Edit>Transform>Rotate. Also resize it so it fit with the width of the "I"
Step 13
With the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) delete the bottom part of the image where you could see the glass, then select an area that is uniform and go to Edit>Transfor>Scale. Make the area much higher like the image below and then with the Eraser Tool (E) use a very soft brush and delete the bottom of the milk splahs until you have a very smooth transition. You can move down the whole splash a little bit as well.
Step 14
Try to look for different images for each characters, for the L I used another photo from Shutterstock, you can download it at http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-10532656-milk-splash-against-dark-background.html. Then repeat the same thing we did for the other letters to match the image with the text.
Step 15
For the K I used another image that you can find at http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-15459070-milk-splash-on-a-blue-background.html.
The first thing to do is convert it to greyscale. Go to Image>Adjustment>Desaturate. After that go to Image>Adjustment>Levels. Increase the Black Input until you have almost a black background, then with the Magic Wand Tool (W) select and delete the background of the splash image. Go to Edit>Transform>Scale and move it and resized it to match the width of the K, then with the Eraser Tool (E) delete some areas of the splash like the image below. Tip: use the [ and ] to increase or reduce the Eraser size, it's very important to delete the right areas to make the effect more realistic. Try to follow the flow of the milk.
Step 16
Select the K and with the Eraser Tool (E) delete the top right corner of the letter.
Step 17
As we used different images and some of them had some color variations, such as the images over the M and L. So to make them look more uniform go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Gradient Map. Select the Reverse option and that will be enough to make the splashes look the same.
Step 18
To create the Depth of Field effect, just copy a part of one of those images that have quite a few drops and paste in the document, in my case I used the top right corner of the image used in the step 15. Copy and paste it in the document and again, go to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate, and Image>Adjustments>Levels increasing the Black Input to make the background turn to black. After that go to Edit>Transform>Scale and make it much bigger and go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 15 for the amount.
Conclusion
Click on Control/Command + Alt + Shift + E to create a new layer with all the layers merged. Then go again to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 10 pixels for the amount. After that change the Blend Mode to Screen and the Opacity to 50%.
Also place your logo and the effect is practicaly done. You can add more splashes or try different colors. The idea is basicaly to learn how to mix the milk splashes with the vector text and make them look real. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and let me know if you have suggestions for this or other tutorials.
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Download the Photoshop and Illustrator files
Click here to download the Photoshop and Illustrator files used for this tutorial
About the author
My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.
85 Comments
great work man!!
;-))
which version of photo shop.
Great stuff, very innovatice! I'll be sure to try this on my new iMac when I get home :)
Great tutorial, very useful!
i like it
Wow! this is super super awesome! Thanks for sharing! :)
wow ! nice effect ... going to try now ,,,
Nice :)
very nice ! :)
Bring on the milk! Makes me want some milk and cereals. I love your concept for the typography, and the way you showed how each letter came to be.
nice Tutorial, i like the effect, and to be fair, it could be applied using other liquids quite easily too :)
wow great
This looks like a piece I did a while back called Paint
You can view it here
http://intempo808.deviantart.com/art/Warning-Paint-Can-Stain-123035059
Admittedly it has a few imperfections.
Great effect! Thanks for sharing your process!
-Ramon
@anonymous yours look really cool, actually mine was based on a very similar one I saw on deviantart too, and it was with the word milk too... I was really amazed by the effect and decided to try it too ;)
Thank you very much for the comments!!!
Incredible tutorial... very interesting to learn some techniques, using this great tutorial I made my own, you can see here: http://www.jakcdesign.net/crea_tive.jpg
Thanks for share and congratulations ;)
Incredible tutorial... using it I make my own to learn about this technique, you can see at: http://www.jakcdesign.net/crea_tive.jpg
Thks one more time for share this incredible work, congratulations...
Very nice tutorial :D.
Also nice to read every step is explaint very detailed.
Keep on the good work, I'll deffently come back for more Tuts
-Mark.
this is very cool ! i'll try to do it!
Thanks for the tut!
Great tutorial. your works are awesome :) thanks for the tips.
Really nice!
great tutorial fabio!
Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/web-picks-22/
@Adbuzeedo this is the one your talking about, I linked it along with my piece. http://EroucT.deviantart.com/art/Milk-120960531
It's a really good piece, but I thought I'd try and make it a bit different by colouring it when I did it.
Pretty neat effect!
I love that C4D isn't used... I don't have it and I am soo much more comfortable with PS. Cool stuff! Reminds me of the boat ad on PS+ with blue paint photos.
and that's just with pictures of milk! imagine the possibilities of using paint or water, etc....
Thank you very much for this tutorial. Very helpful exercise!
agan todos lo tutotiales asi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nicely done indeed! Thanks!
nice one :D can u give us the stocks :D
Awesome! Very very nice work! The best of the last two month maybe.
Flashdesign: You be certain thats CS 4!
Wow, nice effect!
Does anyone know of an existing font like this and where I can download it?
Would save me a lot of time as I would like to use this effect for a project of mine, thanks in advance!
that's really very cool
thank you~
It was photoshopped. I can tell by the pixels.
realmente un super tutorial
really coll
featured here http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3377/3567189446_00cfbd0687_b.jpg
thanks
Parabens!! bem criativo!!
Xcelente
Good tutorial!!!! Thanks!!!
Nice! Really good!
you guys are all genius. i wish i had that graphic talent too.how i wish somebody can teach me to become one of yours. God bless
I made photoshop for this. you can see : http://www.flickr.com/photos/eggchandrika/3572208995/
nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is good........................
you can see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28900704@N06/3572262275/
Here you can find the font => http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Z-FONT/235881
Nice work. I will try to use this in my designs.
itz vry vry well
the best tutorial of this week~!
thank you~
Wow!!!. Great work buddy.
Very very Innovative. There are highly creative people. This is good inspiration to everyone to think "Out of Box".
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Great tutorial, i really love the effect.
Though i got a slight problem with the 2nd and 3rd step, i cant get the hang of this nudging... I just move the whole block, or my pen tool points dont connect etc etc. Can you explain it some more?
You just said, then you nudge... But moving my arrow keys changes into the wrong shape.
Thank you in advance,
Chezlow
Excelent tutorial!
But I have the same problem as Chezlow, i am working with cs4.
Thanks!
very nice tutorial , biggg thanks ;)
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inspiring!!!
fanatic...........;)
i need how make water effect?
Really superb :) I thought you are going to instruct in a difficult way, but itz really simple and crisp..... Thanks a lot
i cant beleave my Eyes very nice tutorial
This is really high dynamic which is more than our human visual system can vision
Wow, that was cool ! :)
Good font you can use with this:
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Cool-Font/254191
on bottom: download link!
what an idea sir jeeeeeeeeeee!
relative simple...
it looks great
Great Tutorial-- Very nice & clean effect!
Here is how I used it for a project:
http://giographix-studios.deviantart.com/art/Goapele-s-Milk-and-Honey-12...
Thanks!
genial!!
very very nice!!
Really great effect.
Thank you for sharing this Tutorial!
Great work
Very good tutorial. I have already done it and put it up on my website at www.knrdesigns.com you can look at it there in my portfolio.
Keep up the good work!
here is my picture ---> http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/6414/milksid.png
very good man great photomontage
It's making me thirsty :p
I'm loving the energy!
How do you nudge points?! I'm stuck on the first bit.
Great tutorial, very useful!
How I can save this image?
http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-15459070-milk-splash-on-a-blue-backgroun....
thank you so much for this!
Nice! Really good!
Great tutorial. I like milk and i like this tutorial
Man, it's great.
But how about other drinks? Like wiskey or pepsi.
wow is original your tip.
I just want to say "GREAT"..Keep on posting such great post.
I will back to see more post.
easy..... but nice !!, thanks a lot
Great....you are great...step-by-step instruction really help.
Great job. This is a great idea and the technique opens up a lot of different directions for this particular type of typography.
Great job
thank you for your kind sharing attitude
Thank you very much""
Awesome! Some really helpful information in there. Bookmarked. Excellent source.
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