Zoner Photoshop Tutorial #1 - Custom Camo Text
 

Man, I really AM bored at work. Here's a tutorial on how to make kewl camo text in Photoshop 5.5. Enjoy!

1) Create a new image. Click the Text tool and place some text on the image.

[img]http://www.boomspeed.com/zoner91/Untitled-1.jpg[/img]

2) Choose the Filter menu, then Pixelate, then Pointillize (Filter > Pixelate > Pointillize). Say Yes to the dialog box asking if you want to render the layer. Play around with the cell size in the Pointillize dialog box until you get a size you like.

[img]http://www.boomspeed.com/zoner91/Untitled-2.jpg[/img]

3) Choose Filter > Brush Strokes > Sprayed Strokes to make the edges of the pointillized cells jagged. Just use trial and error until you find the right amount of "jaggedness".

[img]http://www.boomspeed.com/zoner91/Untitled-3.jpg[/img]

4) Choose Image > Adjust > Hue & Saturation. Check off the Colorize checkbox and make the text whatever colour you want. You can then add drop shadows, lighting effects, etc to the text (which I will not go into here).

[img]http://www.boomspeed.com/zoner91/Untitled-4.jpg[/img]

Voila! Camo text!

Was this helpful? If so, I might do some more down the road, when I get time.


Zone

helped me thats for sure. thats where my sigs get let down in the font area. cheers zoner

Looks good. Of course, if you wanted a specific camo pattern, all you would need to do is overlay an image over the text by messing around with the layers.

Yessir, that would work too. This is if you wanted to get in there and muck around with making your own custom effects and not rely on a pre-existing image for the camo.

Good tip tho.


Zone

i did this just messing around after zoners little tutorial in fonts


[img]http://mohaa.cact-sd.org/aasigs/Font.jpg[/img]

gettin' there. One thing you might wanna try is to make the foreground and background colours REALLY different in hue and lightness. Try a dark red and a light yellow, for example.

By doing that you'll get better contrast with the pointillized cells within the text.


Zone

Exactly.

i tried havin a go at it, when i tried to go to filters>pixilate it wouldn't let me select it, why is that?

something abit more like this ?

[img]http://mohaa.cact-sd.org/aasigs/font2.jpg[/img]

Hey thats nice... Hey Zoner, what font did you use with yours?

Raises Hand

whens the next lesson, this was a big help
didnt know it was possible oOo: [/u]

I am having trouble with changing the colours...I don't understand how its works... oOo:

where is a good place to get fonts

Well, i tried and failed. Looks like I’m not going into the Artistic business.

Fonts:
http://www.google.com