Reader Tutorial: Typography Wallpaper in Photoshop
We have accpeted some tutorials from readers and we think it's really good to open the blog, so anyone can share their skills with the community. Because of that, we will start the "Reader Tutorial" series. If you have or want to write a tutorial and publish it here on Abduzeedo, just send it via email to us. Thank you very much and enjoy our first tutorial from Jonathan Connolly.
Hey guys this is Creative Volition, an advertising and design agency based out of South Florida. Just a quick thanks to Abduzeedo for being such a great help to the design community. Also a special thanks to everyone at Creative Volition for making our design agency what it is today.
Here is a quick tutorial from one of our latest designs. Hopefully this tutorial can benefit in your pursuit of becoming a better designer.
Step 1
Create a new document at 1200 x 800 pixels with a resolution of 72dpi. Start off by importing all of your vector designs separately into a Photoshop canvas. In this case we divided our vectors into 3 separate smart objects and dragged them into the Photoshop canvas.
Step 2
Hide all vectors and create a new text box. In this case I typed out the name of our company, "Creative Volition Inc.". The font we chose was "ITC Avant Garde Gothic". Keep your font in full caps, especially if your using this one! Continue to copy/paste your text across the text box.
Step 3
Text settings: 16pt font, Regular, 16pt height spacing, Color #404040.
Step 4
Continue to copy/paste the text until it fills the entire canvas. Stretch the box out using the text tool until it expands beyond the canvas size.
Step 5
Once the text box is filled completely with the copy begin to rotate the box clockwise in about a 45 degree angle.
Step 6
Make one of the smart objects visible. Command/Apple click the preview box on the layer panel to create marching ants around your object.
Step 7
Once the marching ants appear, hide your smart object so you can see the selection.
Step 8
Rasterize the type layer and with the marching ants active on your rasterized layer click Edit > Cut.
Step 9
Then click Edit > Paste and align your new layer so all the words connect. Open the Layer Style box and change the "Color Overlay" to white.
Step 10
Continue to do the same procedure with your other smart object layers but make sure to always cut from the rasterized layer.
Step 11
Lastly create a new layer and fill it with any color. Place this layer on top of all other layers. Drop the fill down to 0%. Open the Layer Styles box and change the inner glow to the following settings and click OK.
Conclusion
Thats it! You should now have a beautiful design in front of you.
Please drop us a comment and let us know what you think? Thanks again guys.
About 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.
it is a good tutorial bu i dont have apple computer what is the combination of the command/apple for other computers?:-??
Nice effect :) Thanks for the great tutorial ...
Video Tutorial on Vimeo :
http://vimeo.com/2674097
I remake this one here : http://thepartofhis.blogspot.com/2009/01/tutorial-photoshop-typography-m...
This looks really great, i'll make this when i get home and put it on my portfolio http://www.dannykorf.com/
nice. a friend of mine even asks me to help him on this XD
who can tell me the font's name of the word"creative".thank you.
wow cool thx so much for the tut
it's awesome :D
merry christmas!!
can you please tell me the font used for the "CV"
Great design ;)
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?
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?
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.
Nice and simple, thanks. I guess most of it could be done using pure vector-based graphics as well.
Try duplicating the layer once you have done steps 8 & 9. Worked for me.
Jonathan Connolly, you have a very nice port. congrats!
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.
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?
IN-CRE-DI-BLE!!!!
This work is amazeing!!! And very simple!!! I can't believe it XD
The results are AWESOME...
congratulations from Argentina
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!
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
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
Pls to add your psd
wow, cool effect. the only question i have is that could you do this with pictures?
hey am having probs on step 8 and 9 i Rasterize but it wont let me cut plz help
hey man thx for the TUT but how can i get those Fonts the one that is "CV" they look Tight
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.
Thx abduzeedo.. cool tutorial.. i made this for my intro... http://sp-dsgns.net/
Very artistic and Unique!
i need help with steps 8 and 9
Just created something with the help of your tut. Thanks man.
It's actually not really that simple. Haha.
Love it! Thankyou.
Used it for my new holding page on: http://www.pixelattik.com
IM SO CONFUSED RIGHT NOW..HOW DID YOU VECTOR THE LETTERS...
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
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?
Soooooooo aweeesooome !!!!
it's so easy !
thanks !
Do I could get in photoshop?
I have used this exact effect a couple of years a go in a profile picture. :)
Very nice. Simple way to get the juices flowing on a Monday.
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. :)
thanks a lot for that easy but great tutorial!
keep up the good work.
Cool tutorial, surely it's easier to just set your vector based image to colour dodge? Does all the hard work for you?
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
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/
Let's cut all the rubbish-talking and enjoy this cool tut!
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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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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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
Thanks! I found it very useful!
easy and effective. Very good tutorial. Keep on writing tuts for us man.
contact me at aloa[at]abduzeedo.com
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
Nice tutorial, and the ideia of Reader Tutorial is awesome!
Waiting for more =D
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
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.
Wow, the effect is simple but so nice, really good job.
Thank you.
very easy ^_^
but intersting
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