Tutorial : Create a picture from text (colored)

Here is a small addition to this tutorial, which showed you how to transform a regular picture into a picture that is created only from text in black & white. In the following HowTo I am going to be showing you how to achieve the same effect while keeping the colors of the original picture. The reason I am separating this, is because it uses a quite different technique.



Here are two different examples :

Okay let's get started !

Difficulty : Very Easy

1.) Open a picture that you want to transform 

2.) Duplicate the background layer by right-clicking it and selecting "Duplicate layer..."

3.) Then create a new Layer and drag it between the background- and the new background-copy-layer

4.) Fill the new layer black with the Paint Bucket Tool (G)

5.) Create a text layer on the very top with the Text Tool (T) and instead of just clicking somewhere to write something , drag out a text area from the very far top left to the bottom right of the canvas.

6.) Fill up the whole area with text using a small font-size (Font-Color : White) and writing something related to the picture. For this example I'm gonna be pasting "Why so serious ?" all over because I use a picture with the Joker from Batman.

7.) This is how it should be looking by now :

(Notice how my text area barley exceeds the canvas borders ? That's so your text doesn't look so blocky and organized when pasting the same thing over and over. Try it out and you will see what I mean)

8.) We're almost done. Drag the Text-Layer under the background-copy layer now, select the background-copy go to the menu Layer > Create Clipping mask or simply hit CTRL+ALT+G and you are done ! 

You could now go and select your text-layer , hit CTRL+T to transform it and you could slightly rotate the text if you wanted, to add a nice little touch to it. 

Until then, see you next time ;-)

Oh, in case you wonder what picture I have used : The picture is by Irina Bolshakova.