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 

Tutorial : Create a picture from text (Black & White)

In this tutorial I'm gonna be showing you how to transform a simple portrait or an image of your choice into a  picture that looks like its made only from text.

Here are two examples : 

The effect is pretty simple to create and looks kinda cool , so let's get started :

1.)  Open up a picture in Photoshop and create a new layer (CTRL+SHIFT+N)

2.) Fill that new layer black with the Fill Tool (G) 

Tutorial : Advanced face swap ( Auto-blend )

Okay, so finally here it is : a short addition to the first face swapping tutorial which did not cover what to do if the people's skin color differs. I will be using the following pictures as an example :

We wanna go ahead and put Samuel L. Jackson's face onto Chris Browns head. As you can see the skin tone and the lighting are different. At this point I want to state that there are various ways to accomplish this in Photoshop and I will be showing one way to do it using the Auto-Blend function of Adobe Photoshop.  

New Blog banner : Futuristic, Grungy Metal Text Effect

Hey there,
as I have recently updated the blogs layout a bit, I also created a brand new banner with this awesome looking Futuristic Mental Text effect. Well, because I have posted so many text effect tutorials lately and it starts to get kind of boring I will just link you to the two tutorials that helped me create this thing.

Here is the original text-tutorial by Dylan Roberson from tutplus.com : [ Click ]

In case you are interested in a video tutorial, here's the video that led me to the original written one.

Create your own Wallpaper #2 : Glowing Lines

Second tutorial in an hopefully never-ending series.

This time I'm gonna be showing you how to create a wallpaper with a nice looking Glow-Lines effect and this is what you could achieve after following this tutorial : 

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I'm going to show you how to create the simple but nice looking effect yourself and if you experiment with some settings you might get a really cool result. Soooo let's get started ! 

Tutorial : Glass Font #2

Alright here is another way to get a  nice glass font in Photoshop. Well actually it's the same procedure but with different settings on the layer style.

This is what we will be looking at : 

Okay lets get started.

1.) Open a nice Background of your choice and create a new Text Layer using the Text Tool (T)
For this tutorial I use Font-Size 500px and the font called "Franklin Gothic Heavy"
Note : If you use a smaller font-size, you will have to adjust the layer style settings that I show later 

2.) When you got your text add a layer style by clicking the button shown below and select "Blending Options..." from the drop-down menu.

3.) Okay, we will need the following effects : Bevel & Emboss, Stroke, Inner Glow and Outer Glow