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lVlorf3us ā Typography Portrait Tutorial
Published: 2011-08-27 14:26:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 24809; Favourites: 359; Downloads: 727
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Hi there. I present you my tutorial. I thought that the technique of Typography Portrait is quite obvious, but since there are so many people asking about that, it's better to make a tutorial.
Pardon my imperfect english.
Enjoy!
----MY TYPOGRAPHY PORTRAITS ---
~~~~ Scarlett Johansson: [link] ~~~~
~~~~ Yvonne Strahovski: [link] ~~~~
~~~~ Cylon Centurion: [link] ~~~~
~~~~ Dexter: [link] ~~~~
~~~~ Aaron: [link] ~~~~
~~~~ Watch: [link] ~~~~
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You're welcome, I'm glad it helps.
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Awesome!Ā I do a lot of Fan Art for Michael Jackson and have been wanting to learn this for a long time now - can't wait to try it when I have more time.
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Thank you for comment. I'm glad you like it and hopefully you'll try it yourself soon enough.
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 (in tutorial).
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thank you so much
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This is perfect!!! I couldnt figure out the path tool XDĀ
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Thank you. Path tool is hard to handle from the beginning (when I started I was really afraid of it.. I just didn't understant that crazy tool). But after some practise you'll do just fine.
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yah, I didnt understand it until now as well. I'm creating a shirt design, so this is really helpful
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I'm glad my tutorial is helpful. I understand, never mind, I believe it looks great.
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love typography tutorials & I wish I can do the same or better
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I believe you can do the same or even better than my typography portraits. Just go through my tutorial, follow the steps and most importantly - be patient, then you make something amazing.
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I've been looking for a tutorial to do this technique for some time...thanks so much! I'll try this soon!!
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You're very welcome! I definitely want to see your result. Feel free to share it with me (comment or something), when it's done. Good luck!
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thanks, I'll definitely share it with you when I do this!!
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it and good luck with that. When you create it, I'd love to see it - you can share it here into a comment, or add a comment to my profile or something.
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Thank you so much for this tutorial. I searched a long time. Here is the result of my trying: [link]
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You're very welcome. I'm glad it helped you. Your result looks good! Maybe I'd try some color overlay from the base photo, but it looks great even in black & white, so it's up to you.
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Thank you! glad you like it.
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Thank you so much for the tutorial! It took FOREVER but I ended up with this as a result of it! [link]
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Hi! You're very welcome, I'm glad it helped you. Thanks for sharing your result, it looks great, you did very good job.
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I've been bashing my head in all day trying to figure this out...i've tried following every tutorial i've found, but for some reason, it just doesn't work for me. I don't understand what I am doing wrong
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Well, I don't know either.
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I realize that now, thank you
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You're welcome.
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Hi, I used your tutorial to make this: [link] . Thanks so much!
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You're welcome. It looks amazing! I'm glad my tutorial helped you to achieve this. Congratulation, it's really clean and beautiful.
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Thank you; your tutorial explained it really well and made the whole thing way less intimidating
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I finished my portrait! Although this was for my photography exam, not the contest.
[link]
I've received many compliments, and it's all thanks to you!
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Thanks for sharing. It looks great! I'm happy my tutorial helped you. You did very good job.
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Thanks
Thanks again
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Hi, thanks for the tutorial 
"After that hide the original text layer and leave visible only the new merged one. Now make a selection of the merged layer, click on the base picture and duplicate (CTRL+J). Now just hide the merged layer, put some background beneath the duplicated layer and thats it"
I merged all the text layers together, and then got stuck :S Sorry, you explained it perfectly, its just I'm not so great at this
tutorial is awesome though!
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Hi! You're welcome! Thanks for watch and badge and of course for your comment too. Well, it's simple. If you merged it, just select the merged-text-area (ctrl + click on the layer thubnail in layers panel). Once you have the selection, click on the base-picture layer, and duplicate (CTRL+J) the selection from that layer and you get new layer with the same area as the merged area (it means area with text) but now, because it's duplicated from the photograph, it's colored with the exact colors you need, so you hide everything else but the new duplicated layer and you're there! I hope you understand it now, I don't know how could I explain it better.
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Yay thank-you! I love this tutorial, and its helped me so much with my photography exam work
thanks for such a quick reply too
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You're welcome. I'm really happy it helped you! So problem solved? Did you get it done? I mean, the duplication of colors from the photo? If so, can I see the result?
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umm yes, I will, but I'm entering it in a contest, so I can't post until the closing date - But I promise I will!
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I understand.
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Of course I will give credit, where credit is due
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i want to try this right now =/ been searching trying to figure it out so hopefully i can do it,
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I believe you can.
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I have a couple of questions, if that's ok.
How many words do you normally use in a portrait?
How possible do you think it would be to do a portrait like this in a 10 hour exam? I'd love to do something like this for my graphics exam, but I'm not sure whether I'd be able to fit it in.
Also, how much practice would I need to do before doing this in an exam? I've never done anything like this, apart from some very basic typography.
Thanks for the tutorial, it's really great!
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Hi! Thanks for comment.
Ok, how many words? It's really hard to tell. This particular portrait has 380 layers and minimally 100 of them are the hair layers, where I repeated her name over and over. The rest of it is her filmography, biography, quotes etc. .. and I think I didn't use anything twice this time, so there might be about 1640 words.
Next question. 10 hours is really ok. This portrait took me 7 hours (my Cylon portrait took 6 hours), so it's really enough time to do this. The bigger font you use, the faster it's done. No need to do is as detailed as I did my Scarlett portrait (about 1200 layers, 32 hours of work).
Next question. You need to know, how to use Pen tool for sure [making curves, then click on it with text tool, paste the text on the curve and adjust the width / size of it so it fits. It's mechanical work, you'll do it automatically. The only, non-automaticall thing about it is that you need to work with the text and in every new layer, logically, you must continue the sentence from where it ended in the previous layer. So you'll be just ALT-TABing between photoshop and notepad, or wherever you have your text, and copy it. My shortcut is to insert loads of text into one layer and when I duplicate it, edit the curve with the pen tool, I just delete the sentence that is visible in the previous layer and the next sentence become visible right in that second without worrying about copying it.
Oh, one more thing I found out last week and what is the most time-consuming thing about making these portraits: when you have more curves and you make new one and you want to click on it with a text tool, there's like 50% chance you won't be able to, because it automaticcaly click on some existing text layer that is next to your new layer. So I always had to click on some layers and make them unvisible so I can make a new one. And here's the tip: if you make your curve and choose the Text Tool, then hold down SHIFT and click on the curve. It forces it to make a new layer so you can't click on anything else.
Sorry for the long text. Long story cut short - it's absolutelly doable and possible to make it within 10 hours. You just need to know how to use pen tool (at least making the curve.. click on the start, click on the end, then add some anchor points on the curve and drag them and adjust the radius about them.. just basic stuff) and Text tool (not a big deal, just click on the curve and then, in Text window, just adjust the width / size) and I think that's it. In the end you need to mask it, as it is in the tutorial and you're done!
I wish you good luck with that and if you finish it, I'd love to see the outcome.
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Thanks for such a detailed reply!
I think the reason I wanted to know how many words it was is because I was wondering if I would have time to write something myself, because it would be a great thing to show in the development. I think around 1000 words would be fine, we have 10 weeks of preparation time before the final exam, so that shouldn't be too difficult (I think I just jinxed myself :/)
I'm thinking that I have enough experience in Photoshop that of I needed to, I could launch into doing it right now. I've used the pen tool loads before now, and the text tool is like second nature to me (I've done quite a few posters with awkward text)
Thanks for the tip on getting text on a new layer, I've had similar problems on different things before.
I will make sure to upload it when I'm done, and even if I end up doing a different method for my final exam, this has been very helpful, and I am planning to do some typography portraits anyway. I'll make sure to credit you for the help!
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You're very welcome. I'm here for help.
If you have 10 weeks for preparation, it's plenty of time. You can write some text in a few hours and then you're ready for Photoshop.
Well, I think you're experienced enough. It just seems difficult, but it really isn't.
So once again - good luck with that, I believe it's gonna be piece of cake, it just takes some time.
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