Every day we see a lot of text. Various documents, advertisements, prospects all have become part of our everyday life. But what if you create a picture from a text? Few recall that earlier we had ASCII graphics – that we in fact created pictures from texts in text editors. Now I will describe an easy way to make a picture text in Photoshop.
Let’s begin by opening a picture in Photoshop that you want to see in text format. I used this one:
Desaturate the image (Ctrl+Shift+U), then Add layer mask (Layer>Add Layer Mask>Reveal All). Select all (Ctrl+A), copy selection (Ctcl+C). Then go to Channels (Window>Channels). Select Layer1 mask and make it visible. Then paste (Ctrl+V) and deselect (Ctrl+D).
Go back to Layers (Window>Layers), select Layer Thumbnail and fill everything with white.
Create new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N), fill it with white and bring it to Back (Ctrl+Shift+[). Now select Text tool and highlight the entire canvas area. Then copy text from any source and insert it in the highlighted area. I used the standard filler text, “Lorem Ipsum Dolar Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.”
Apply the following settings to the text:
You should come up with something like this:
For a really convincing effect you can simply duplicate the layer with text (Ctrl+J). Also, you can choose the layer with solid white color (without mask) and fill it easily with shades of grey (#e0e0e0). Although this would be cheating, inasmuch as the image is easily painted with its original colos, but at the same time this increases the quality and is not terribly noticeable.
Here’s what I came up with as a result:
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Love it! Love it! Love it! Thanks! Can’t wait to share this with design students this summer!
Funny tutorial)) Thnx!=)
your variety tricks r very useful new designers thanx 4 that
LOVE THIS TUT! SIMPLE YET UNIQUE :)
I am not sure about this tutorial…it lack some details and instructions…i hope you can explain all instead of skipping some parts. It is hard for a beginner to follow. Thanks in advance.
i have a picture i want that done too but i dont have photoshop so if i was to send u it would u be able too do that for me its for my girl and mine 6 year and 8 month anniversary
I was looking for this effect.
Now i can try give it my own twist.
Thanks!
I agree with angie. As a beginner I wasn’t able to succesfully complete this tutorial because of the skipped instructions. My result has the shape of the text but the background image shows too much. The text is on the image limiting to the image’s outlines when the text should be the image instead. If someone had a similar problem, please help me out. Thanks!
You can’t have a 6year and 8month anniversary, the ‘anni’ means year..
Great tut!
I tried this and it seems to be missing something. I can not get it to work
yea i agree the text part was not so clear , i got stuck @ the end :(
The problem is that you need to make each word one colour, else it just looks nabby.
Great article. Thanks.
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Not working…this tutorial not perfect
I can’t get it to work either!
Impressive . Thanks!
Hey does anyone have the psd source file for this? or where to get it from?
Nice tutorial Thanks for a awesome tutorial
not clear. got lost somewhere in the attempt. I think you skipped a direction or two…
super confusing..i think u need to put every detail to dis tutorial..its a good one..but can be confusing
most unclear tutorial i have ever read
i think you need to work on the sharpness of the edges coz for me its not that clear.
It would be great if you could update this. We’re still out here… trying to make it work!
umm im a beginner and this didnt make like anysense can u try and make it clearer thx :)
Hi, the effect is really class, but I can’t seem to get it, could you give a little more detail please?
Just cause someone asks for further help you delete it, change your name to useless tutorial park
I made some progress by copying the text into wordpad then pasting it onto the layer. If I get a chance, I will post an update that might help
lol this is the most pathetic excuse for a “tutorial” I’ve ever seen
To nick: Hey its a exellent tutorial. A tutorial can be really short as long as it teaches what it is supposed to teach and this one does so stop complaining.
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Yes it is a bit confusing for me too. Let’s see if I can find another way of recreating this effect
bad tutorial..
Or you write the text, put the image layer on top of it, hold ALT and click between the layers. Done.
Yup, or Gimp users:
Create Text layer, add photo layer and set mode to “Addition” (you can adjust brightness and contrast if you like) , duplicate photo layer again and set mode to “Overlay”, duplicate “Overlay” layer a few times to darken to taste.
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Very Cool tutorial tnx, I went to Threshold (in adjustments) and took it to 1 and it simplified the image making it much clearer for the image below to shine through. Very cool, also works well with a texture behind the image.
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Thanks for a great article. Have been wondering how to do this. Did it and it works very well – thanks !
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How can i make the pic look exact like yours plese help by replying??