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Photoshop Quick Tips #5 - Typographic Portrait
March 31, 2009
Following our series of Quick Tips, we have a nice video showing how to create a Typographic Portrait using Photoshop. There are other ways, one in particular is really cool too, it's using Flash. You can check it out at http://evan-roth.com/typo_illus.html
Also, a long time ago Computerarts magazine published a tutorial from the creators of of ni9e.com where they offer an in-depth look at their experiments in digital type showing how to create this type of effect as well, they used Flash and you can download the tutorial in PDF here.
Typographic Portrait - Quick tip from ikab on Vimeo.
Another very nice tutorial is the How to Create a Simple Face Text Portrait in Photoshop from Ronald over at Naldz Graphics. It's definitely worth checking it out.





20 Comments
Looks cool!
Interesting tip (basically an exercise of 'type on a path') although I'm not quite such as to the practicality of it.
This post made my day today !!! Ive been looking this sort for tuts for long and was hitting arrow in the dark to achive the similar result with lill success...Eureka Moment for me at least...Keep up the awesome stuffs coming in...
hm yeah... guess there must be an easier way to do it!
Making the text into a brush is a great idea. Simple and sweet!
So that's how you do it. very good tip.
Hey it's a good tip, dont knock yourself for it. Good call on making the type into a brush.
this is art man.. cool effect and easy.. but he/she got some pretty good skills with the hand ;)
Great, good tip, good style.
so good .. easy and nice tips!
oh shit!
Oh my god.. oh my guy
sooooo owesome
U'r my Idol!
Really cool dude. Are you interested in posting some tutorials or tips or even cool art of yours on my blog? Let me no. Cool
absolutely smashing. Love t.
I adore this post. Gonna go try to make a typographic portrait right this minute! Thanks so much.
keren
muy buenooo
Very nice... but i have a question (a newbie question.. ;) )
When u use the ''word brush'' you created (in the 2° video) how do you rotate it? I don't really know how, because it change inclination randomly...
nice tips.
typography is not an easy work.
needs a hell lot of time.
but converting a text into a brush is just really great.
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