very easy ^_^
but intersting

Wow, the effect is simple but so nice, really good job.
Thank you.

The tutorial itself may not be the most advanced or teaches you anything incredibly new, but it really shows how you can create an awesome design really easy, if you just have the right ideas.

This is fantastic! I really want to go ahead and try this now. Simple, effective and very appealing. I'd love to see more tutorials come out of you ;)

Cheers,
Matt Hamilton

Nice tutorial, and the ideia of Reader Tutorial is awesome!
Waiting for more =D

It's a good idea to welcome reader tutorials. The effect in this one is nice, but I think it's much easier to lock the smart object's visibilty to the background text layer (Windows: alt + click between the layers in layer palette).

I'll look forward to more reader tutorials :D

easy and effective. Very good tutorial. Keep on writing tuts for us man.

contact me at aloa[at]abduzeedo.com

Thanks! I found it very useful!

Yeah it is super simple but we know it will definitely be something that can spark great inspiration to all you creative thinkers out their. Glad you all like it!

Jonathan Connolly
Creative Director
jonathan@creativevolition.com
www.creativevolition.com

i really like it. it's not hard stuff either. and no one ever said that a good design needs to be made hard. this seems to me like a good fresh idea, it's simple, and i really like it. congrats!
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As a typographical researcher, I think the result is to much simple. Don't we see text making text everyday?

What scares me is the fact that a person needs all these steps to get this so simple result using a so expensive software like photoshop.

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Let's cut all the rubbish-talking and enjoy this cool tut!

Great stuff,

simple is always appreciated by myself, it can get quite time consuming to create those other designs out there. Thanks for sharing mate

http://flickr.com/photos/alexanderblacker/

Love the flow. Simplicity is sometimes harder to find.
Good design is good design, it doesn't matter what it takes to get there. Thanks JonCon, keep the tuts coming!
Robert B
ThirdDesign

Cool tutorial, surely it's easier to just set your vector based image to colour dodge? Does all the hard work for you?

thanks a lot for that easy but great tutorial!
keep up the good work.

Really good tutorial! I'm glad to see reader tutorials now being posted up on here, and this one definitely lives up to Abduzeedo's commitment to quality. Keep 'em coming guys. :)

Very nice. Simple way to get the juices flowing on a Monday.

I have used this exact effect a couple of years a go in a profile picture. :)

Do I could get in photoshop?

Soooooooo aweeesooome !!!!
it's so easy !
thanks !

it's a good job, i have a question.

which is the typography used in your CV logo or did you vectorized the CV logo?

In case your text doesn't line up the way you want I recommend using the built-in "Character and Paragraph palette" to modify your text spacing and width.

I added an "outer-glow" to the top-most typography layer for a pretty sweet effect:

http://dshosu.blogspot.com/2008/10/liverpool-fc-background.html

IM SO CONFUSED RIGHT NOW..HOW DID YOU VECTOR THE LETTERS...

Love it! Thankyou.

Used it for my new holding page on: http://www.pixelattik.com

Just created something with the help of your tut. Thanks man.
It's actually not really that simple. Haha.

i need help with steps 8 and 9

Very artistic and Unique!

Thx abduzeedo.. cool tutorial.. i made this for my intro... http://sp-dsgns.net/

The result is nothing short of magnificent. I love typography artwork, you need to do another tutorial on it with a different style like larger text.

hey man thx for the TUT but how can i get those Fonts the one that is "CV" they look Tight

hey am having probs on step 8 and 9 i Rasterize but it wont let me cut plz help

wow, cool effect. the only question i have is that could you do this with pictures?

Pls to add your psd

Thank you all for your interest in this tutorial. I would be glad to try and answer some of your questions...

Peredo - The font I used was Futura. I typed out my letters then right clicked to create outlines. From there I played with the anchor points to get the look I was going for.

Siniority - Vectorizing the letters was all done through Illustrator. Once they were finished I dragged and dropped them into my Photoshop canvas.

Tuamutef - Step 8 and 9: Once you have the shape of CV outlined with marching ants. Go to the layers palette and highlight the rasterized font layer ("CREATIVE VOLITION INC.") which is all my background text. Once its highlighted then you can click cut. Once a portion of the text is missing then click paste. It will create a new layer with your text. Now you can play with the effects on just the layer alone (CV).

Ricky - That is futura font with some customizations. So play around with futura in Illustrator if you want to get that same look.

Ricky - Read Tuamutef's reply. I tried to explain a little better for you.

Anonymous - It is possible you could do this with pictures. In this case I wanted to use the companies name to portray the logo. So ya you can do what ever. This tutorial was designed to take this idea and inspire others to do creative things like your thinking. Good idea, give it a shot.

HeLLSpY - Hey I just uploaded the psd file for this tutorial. Hopefully it will help some of you out. You can directly download it by clicking the link below.

http://www.creativevolition.com/blog/wp-content/tutorials/typography1/cv...

Hopefully I have answered some of your questions. If anyone else has anything to offer please feel free.

Thanks

Jonathan Connolly
Creative Director
jonathan@creativevolition.com
www.creativevolition.com

Download the Wallpaper Versions:

iPhone Version - http://www.creativevolition.com/blog/wp-content/wallpapers/typography1/i...

1280x768 - http://www.creativevolition.com/blog/wp-content/wallpapers/typography1/1...

1280x800 -
http://www.creativevolition.com/blog/wp-content/wallpapers/typography1/1...

1280x1024 - http://www.creativevolition.com/blog/wp-content/wallpapers/typography1/1...

1440x900 -
http://www.creativevolition.com/blog/wp-content/wallpapers/typography1/1...

1680x1050 - http://www.creativevolition.com/blog/wp-content/wallpapers/typography1/1...

1920x1200 -
http://www.creativevolition.com/blog/wp-content/wallpapers/typography1/1...

Jonathan Connolly
Creative Director
jonathan@creativevolition.com
www.creativevolition.com

Big thx to Creative Volition, this Tut is just awesome!!
Pretty easy but gives a very cool effect :)
Now it is my background image of my computer :P

Here my outcome, hope you like it: http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/7b7e0f7s/WEBERrounded.png

And you experts, i hope you could give me some tipps to improve my work. I would be glad to hear any kind of critique. :)

Thank you guys and please don't stop making those cool tutorials!

IN-CRE-DI-BLE!!!!

This work is amazeing!!! And very simple!!! I can't believe it XD

The results are AWESOME...

congratulations from Argentina

this is a great tut and an awesome design but i'm having some troubles with it myself. when i'm creating the repeating text for the background, i increase the text box size but there's a point where i try to continue entering text and the whole text box just goes black and nothing shows up anymore, as if i deleted all the text. if i delete the last thing i typed all the text will show back up but once i go past that point and type more, it all disappears again. anyone have any ideas or help for this?

WOAH! Did this with GIMP and it words just as nicely! So simple, yet amazing results! thanks, man! best toutorial i'v seen yet!
[IMG]http://i454.photobucket.com/albums/qq263/Yopladas/Picture1-12.png[/IMG]
to see my version.

Jonathan Connolly, you have a very nice port. congrats!

Try duplicating the layer once you have done steps 8 & 9. Worked for me.

Nice and simple, thanks. I guess most of it could be done using pure vector-based graphics as well.

am a beneficiary of site and everything ive seen here is great. u guys are wonderful. Infact i just used one of ur tut. yesterday for a job i did for a telecomms company and they are luving it.

thanks so much.

Hi, This guide worked nice once, But now when i copy the background text, when i come to the half of the page the text disappears but just when i copy,must i have a space between the words?

Hey great tutorial, I was wondering, is there any way to do without the rasterizing, a process that wouldn't be destructive to the text layer in case you want to modify it?

can you please tell me the font used for the "CV"
Great design ;)

wow cool thx so much for the tut
it's awesome :D
merry christmas!!

who can tell me the font's name of the word"creative".thank you.

nice. a friend of mine even asks me to help him on this XD

This looks really great, i'll make this when i get home and put it on my portfolio http://www.dannykorf.com/

I remake this one here : http://thepartofhis.blogspot.com/2009/01/tutorial-photoshop-typography-m...

Nice effect :) Thanks for the great tutorial ...
Video Tutorial on Vimeo :
http://vimeo.com/2674097

it is a good tutorial bu i dont have apple computer what is the combination of the command/apple for other computers?:-??

Very nice and attractive tutorial! It worked to me very well.

thanks is great :D i like it

very nice idea :)

~Dominus iluminatio mea~

I did have a problem with this tutorial,
cause I'm not able to see the marching ants when
i click the preview box, but it just opens up a new canvas with the layer on its own. I've tried to click with right button and all, but still doesn't work. Am i doin anything wrong?

Took a long time to figure me out too! Cntrl+Click on the Thumbnail and voila you'll finds the ants marching!!
I cannot tell you how long it took me for it!

And Great Job by the Poster! Awesome!

Simple,but it looks very nice,thank you

Sweet tutorial (:

Did this with a 1920x1080 canvas, when I was suppose too copy paste the text all over the screen I thought my computer was gonna crash :p

very nice and useful effect.
thx for the hint

Oh My Gog | this is so nice , I like it so much but I faced some problems when I did my work
in step 6 and 7 =( I‘m waiting for you...

This tutorial is really good but i cant seem to cut my Rasterized Layer after I have done all the steps, and yes i have done them correctly but when i try to cut it. The cut option is'nt available if anyone can help i would be grateful and if you can please send me an E-Mail - oOHoppyOo@hotmail.co.uk.
Good tutorials Btw =]

how do you create those vectors for the letters? I tried using other shapes besides the lightning bolt and they just looked like crap.

Great Tut!

This is something new for me :D

Thanks!

i get stuck at step 6 and 7 when i hide the layer and only the marching ants are showing i click on the layer in the layer palette and then i click rasterize type and then the cut option is unavailabe its only copy merged. HELP! email is jeremywp449@gmail.com

I am having the same problems as aNYMOUSE, Alex Hopkins, and Tuamutef. Steps 8 and 9... I have the CV selected, I hide that layer so just the marching ants remain, but their is no option to cut the shape of the CV from the Creative Volition Layer INC. layer. The cut option is grayed out. I saw your above post where you said to have the shape of the CV selected and highlight the Creative Volition Inc. layer but the cut option is still not available... What am I doing wrong. Im working with cs4 if that makes a difference. I managed to do it once by some miracle but I can't do it again.

i stuck in step 6.., i dont know about rasterize im new in ps,, but i want to do this one!! heLp!

nice & simply, thank guyz

ahhh how to do that marching ants??? pls pm me @ irma_softy@yahoo.com pls pls pls????

You have to be on your text layer in order to Edit > Cut.

Thanks for this great tutorial. Learned something today too : )

Wow, wonderful tutorial. Very simple.

Instructions to use 'normal text' instead of 'vectors' would have been easier to follow for new users.

Thanks for sharing.

This was really interesting and helpful. I can't wait to try this.

Thanks!

Very god tut, thank you so much. :)

I like it, will use at my site homepage.

Easy but SO NICE
i like so much !

You guys are awesome!!!!!!!!! Merci.

Really good tutorial, thanks!

Thanks !!! very easy and interresting !!
I did it on my website

One little thing : at step 8 you can just rightclick and chosse layer via cut

for those who use other colors, at step 9 you can duplicate the layer fille by color overlay until you get a better result.

Thanks again for this useful site !

Very EZ though
BUT INTERESTING
THNKX FABIO

Easy n nice.........

se mine
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http://www.facebook.com/s.php?sid=3404fa3e216880da1cc8c6605d47538e&init=...

alguem sabe o nome dessa fonte?
da fonte usada no tutorial.
se souberem me mandem um email porfavor; erikmaetania@hotmail.com

Hey, great tutorials! but What is the font you used in the
word "creative"?, I hope your answer, thanks (:

i am stuck at step 8! I resterized the layer, but when I go to edit, i cant select cut! I am using windows xp, so can u tell me what to do in windows?

Great Job. Thanks a lot super duper. KTNXBAI. \m/

dude i'm stuck at resterize !
cant click the cut..
at my first try i was able to click the cut but then cannot..
HELP MEEEEEEEE

kk i havnt used photoshop for a very long time and there are something he does not explain wel at all. like how do you rasturize and where do i find the layer style box or drop the fill down to 0%

i'm stuck at step 8,
because I can't Cut

Does anybody knows the problem?

I'm having a problem with Step 6! Please explain the step in detail, I don't understand what you mean by 'click on the preview box on the layer'? I'm using Windows.

Sorry for being a noob.

Thanxx

Nice tutorial! What two fonts are used for "Creative" and "Volition" next to the large CV??
Thanks!!

simple yet beautiful
very nice tut

This is the hardest tutorial ever, only because it's working with vectors. I've been trying to get it right for hours! Someone help me?!

I love this tutorial, it's kool and very easy to use. Thanks for sharing this wonderful lecture.

same effect is achieved through the clippling mask technique.

1. make the bg layer(i.e. small words)
2. make the logo layer(i.e. big letter acronyms...or maybe shapes).if it is a text layer, it should be rasterized first. then right click layer, create clipping mask. Voila!...you could also add blending modes first before creating clipping mask to make it more interesting.
3. a layer with a photo can be a clipping mask also, so probably you can make a mosaique out of a collection of small pictures as bg. ive never tried it. pls post it here if youve created one.

enjoy!

Very helpful tutorial¡¡

thans

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Hello!
Really nice, but I can't get it....
I can't make it work, maybe cause I am not using font text in the place of "Big Letter Acronyms" but just something I made myself (a shape, but with no shape properties, just a thing I made)
so I can't go after Step 8 and Step 9 no idea why.... can you explain a bit more what do you mean "Vector objects" in the beginning of the tutorial please?

Is there any tutorial where I can do this in Pixelmator? Thanks!

OMG!!
Love it
so amazing
I will make like it (:
thank u so much
keep it up

WOW.

I've been wanting to use photoshop for a long time, and finally got myself a copy. This is deffinately the first thing I'm going to try for myself.

This has inspired an idea for a logo I've wanted to make for a long time, but now I finally have an idea of how to go about it.

this awesome, i just used it for my cv looking great.
thanks sooooooooooooo much.

simple... but a cool outcome :D
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nice tut dud

Awesum tutorial. But i do i have problem though. After i apply "soft Light" to my big written image there is this shadow of red that stays on the layer and i have no idea how to make it go away.. Can anyone help me out?

Thanks:)

very nice over all design, i actually did something like this back in 2000 for my art project and won for best design out of 100 students, love using fonts with blending

im just a newbie in photoshop.. please help me. where is the photoshop canvas here in photoshop?
i got a problem in step one. but i get the other steps ~_~