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Default Zoner Photoshop Tutorial #1 - Custom Camo Text - 12-12-2002, 04:03 PM

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.


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Default 12-12-2002, 04:10 PM

helped me thats for sure. thats where my sigs get let down in the font area. cheers zoner
  
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Default 12-12-2002, 04:12 PM

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.
  
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Default 12-12-2002, 04:19 PM

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.


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Default 12-12-2002, 04:21 PM

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


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Default 12-12-2002, 04:29 PM

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.


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Default 12-12-2002, 04:40 PM

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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.
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Default 12-12-2002, 04:45 PM

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?
  
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Default 12-12-2002, 04:48 PM

something abit more like this ?

[img]http://mohaa.cact-sd.org/aasigs/font2.jpg[/img]
  
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Default 12-12-2002, 05:13 PM

Hey thats nice... Hey Zoner, what font did you use with yours?
  
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Default 12-12-2002, 10:47 PM

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whens the next lesson, this was a big help
didnt know it was possible oOo: [/u]
  
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Default 12-12-2002, 11:51 PM

I am having trouble with changing the colours...I don't understand how its works... oOo:
  
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Default 12-13-2002, 12:01 AM

where is a good place to get fonts
  
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Default 12-13-2002, 12:04 AM

Well, i tried and failed. Looks like I’m not going into the Artistic business.
  
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Default 12-13-2002, 12:04 AM

Fonts:
http://www.google.com
  
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