March, 2008
In this tutorial we'll have a little fun designing fun fonts.
I start with a font I found called Elephant and typed out the text.
Opening the arrow on the layers palette, I selected Convert Text to Shapes.
With the Shape Selection tool, I moved letters around.
I then clicked on the Layer Commands icon and chose Collapse to make the layers of letters into one layer.
I copied that layer and pasted it again making a duplicate of the letters.
Then I took that new layer of letters and applied Depth of Field using paper with Small Dots as my selection.
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I then chose Load Selection and used Replace Selection.
Choosing the Selection Adjuster tool, I moved the selection up and over.
Next I applied the Highpass filter.
I then used the Load Selection again to reselect the letters and then chose the Burn tool set to 32% Opacity. I burned in the lower half of the letters to give them interest.
I selected the original layer of letters which is underneath the layer we've been working on, and applied Depth of Field to it.
I changed Paper to Retro Fabric then applied Express Texture to the underlying lettering.
Finally I changed the top layer's Composite Method to Hard Light and called it finished.
Download the original source files from this tutorial in Zip format Here
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