Hey everybody! My name is Nathaniel Dodson from tutvid.com
Welcome to this Photoshop tutorial where today
We're going to look at this really, really cool Typography
style portrait effect where we just transform the skin of
a person into like this deep, almost like you can reach out
and touch it 3D text effect. It's really cool. you can use
any font you like. you could use your own hand writing or
calligraphy or scriptyness.If you can get it in Photoshop,
You can use it in this effect and I think you're really going.
to like it. Now, if you do enjoy this tutorial, make sure
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Alright, so here we are in Photoshop. This whole process
begins by choosing an image onto which we’d like to apply
this typography effect.
Now, I've got this image here that I really like it
I think it's going to work well for this effect.
And I think to keep things simple and uniform, I’m going to
go ahead and grab the crop tool here.
and I'm going to both re-ratio this photo to a perfect square
and also resize the photo down to 2048 pixels by 2048 pixels.
I'm just setting dimensions in pixels in the top control bar
right up here when I select the Crop Tool. Now,
To create the type pattern that will be pressed into her skin,
now that we've cropped the image
We're going to go ahead and create a new Photoshop document
And this is going to be the same size as your photo.
In our case, of course, that’s 2048 by 2048.
Next, I like to use the website called relatedwords.org
It allows you to load a clean list of words related to a word
that you enter.
This is going to load a list of words that are related to this
image. Let's say this girl is a writer. So we will use for
main keyword “literature” and see what relatedwords.org
can come up with. Of course, if you like, you can always take the time to come
the time to come up with your own list of 50, I'd say 50 or so
words will work. So you can take your time to come up with a list
of 50 or so words if you prefer that. So I'm going to
highlight this list of words, or most of them at least,
and then I'm going to head over to my Google Drive.
You’ll see why I prefer Google Drive for this...
for this particular step over just about anything else.
And there might be some other ways to do it. This is just the
way I've been doing it now for a little while when I do this
kind of thing. I'm going to create a new text document
in Google drive, and I'm going to past all in that text that I
copied to my clipboard without formatting. So the hot-key is
CMD/CTRL + SHIFT + V. So it's going to past in that text, as
plain text without all the accoutrement that's going to
come along with it. So just the raw text. But the issue we're
have here is that as you can see, we now have this long list of
words, but each of them is on their own line. We need all this
clumped together like a word cloud. Just a whole bunch of
words together that we can begin creating our texture with
and this is where Google drive comes in clutch, for me.
I use this, it's totally free and super cool. It's a Google Docs
add-on called remove line breaks I'll throw the link for it down
in the description of this video.
And it does a great job of, as you would expect, removing
all the line breaks. All I have to do is highlight all the text
Go to the add-ons menu, choose remove line breaks and then
from that menu, choose in selected text. Copy this text
to your clipboard by hitting CMD or CTRL + C, and we now just
a big block of plain text ready to be pasted into photoshop.
So we'll jump back over to Photoshop, and into that new
blank document that we created, select the text tool and drag
out a text box over the entire document, roughly. It doesn't
have to be exact but, you know, around the size of the
entire document. The closer you get the better. And then I'll
hit CMD or CTRL + V to paste in the series of words that
I just copied from Google Docs. And now begins the process of
editing and sizing the text to make this look reasonably
proper.Let's open the character pannel by going window, character
and find a font that we like for the text. I'm going to go
go ahead and use Playfair Display SC at a bold weight
I'm gonna set the font size to 80 points and I'm gonna set the
line hight to 60 points to kind of smush the text together a bit
and I'll also choose the all caps button near the bottom of
character pannel to make all the text uppercase as well.
Again, this is all just personal taste. You will also want to
make sure your text is colored black. Now a quick side note.
If you're working on a much larger or much smaller document
In all likelihood your sizing will be a little bit different
It really doesn't matter overall, because it's just going to
change the way the effect looks a little bit. But it doesn't
change the way the effect works. So it will still work for you
if you use massive text or tiny text. This is just the size I
like for this. Maybe when you go through this video once,
you will realize, ohhh, I want try that again with smaller text
or with larger text. So we will move along and open up the
paragraph pannel, again this is just window and paragraph.
And here we are going to choose to justify the text to the left.
This is going to make the text look a bit funky, little
stretched out, little ill spaced. But if you simply tick on the
little hyphenate option, it's going to help even out the
mess and just give us nice cohesive solid blocks of type.
So commit that change for your type and then we're going to
duplicate this text layer three times. So we wanna make four
layers of text in total. So we're going to hit CMD or CTRL + J
three times, and then we're going to shut off the top three
versions of text that we just created by hitting the little
eyeball icon in the Layers Panel. Select the one visible
version of the text and go the Edit menu, choose Free
Transform. Rotate the block of text about 8 degrees counter
clockwise. Size it upward by holding CMD/CTRL + ALT/OPT keys
and dragging any corner handle until the text just fills out
the document and just fills up the joint
and then we're going to set this layer to an opacity 30%
Go ahead and turn on the next text layer. And with this layer
selected, once again go Edit, Free Transform, but this time
but this time we'll rotate the text 20º and we'll rotate it
clockwise. Again, scale the text upward to fill the
document like we did before and set this layer to 60% opacity.
But here is where we change something up. We're going to
add a drop shadow to this layer of text buy double-clicking on
the text layer out near the name of the text layer, not the
text layer's thumbnail to bring up our blending options.
choose to add a drop shadow that is set to Normal blend mode
50% opacity, make sure the color is solid black, the angle
should be 90º straight up and down, distance is 2px, and the
size will also be 2px.
Alright, next up, we're going to Turn on the third layer of
text again we'll add a Drop Shadow here as well.
The settings should be Normal blend mode, 80% opacity in this
case. color for the drop shadow should be black, the angle 90º.
In this case the distance is going to be 4px, and the size
will be 3px. And this text, we're not going to resize, we're
not going to move it too much. it's just going to sit right
there. Next up, turn on the fourth and the final layer of
text. Make sure we have it selected. Go to Edit, Free
Transform. This one we're going to rotate the text 15º counter
clockwise, there's a little degree counter buy the way up in the
top control bar I probably should have mentioned that
a little earlier and then we'll scale this to make it about
160% of the original text size. So we're not just going to scale
big enough to fill the whole document. We're going to
intentionally make it even a little bigger than that. So I'm
Watching for it to be around 160% of the original text size,
And before committing the free transform, hitting the little
check icon, before we do that, right-click within the transform
box and choose “Flip Vertical” option, and then right click it
again Flip Horizontal” option, that's just going to really mess
the text up a lot, just give us what looks like a big complex
pattern. And then set this layer to an opacity of 75%.
Now that we have our text layers we're going to use the little
hidden hotkey to merge all these layers to a new layer
by hitting Cmd + Shift + Opt + E. On the PC that would be Ctrl
Shift + Alt + E. This is going to form a new layer
and this new layer is our pattern. Now her's again I got
to give you a side note You can use all sorts of different fonts,
rotations, opacity levels, drop shadow strengths, and sizings
whatever you want to create a huge amount of different style
of typography patterns. Really the sky is the limit.
You don't even need to use a font. You can go in if you have
Tablet and draw a bunch of letters or write a bunch of words
with your won hand. But because we have done all this work now
to this document, just make sure you take a quick moment to save
this document before we continue.
Now that we’ve created our pattern, let’s head back to the
photograph. Let's go ahead and prep this photo for the pattern
before we bring the pattern over into here. So Duplicate the
background layer by hitting Cmd/Ctrl + J and then right click
on this layer and convert it to a Smart Object.
Next, we're going to go and add a gradient map adjustment to this
by going image, adjustment, gradient map. I just want it to
be a simple black to white gradient and I'm going to tick
on the reverse option. Which is going to essentially make the
photo look like a digital negative. Then I'm going to go
and apply the same exact gradient map to this inverted
image again. So it's going to be image, adjustments, gradient map
Black to white inverse, and we are going to get this really
high contrast black and white photo.
And then we're also going to go filter, blur, gaussian blur.
Apply a 4px blur to the image. And then save this Psd, maybe
just to your desktop, somewhere where you can find it. Save the
Psd and name it “displace.psd” that way we know what it is and
we can get it a bit later on. Next, back in Photoshop, before
we even do anything let's just go file, and choose "save as"
and save this Psd again as something like, I'm going to
name this “working-file.psd”. Just so we don't accidentally
save over our displace map file. Now that we've done this.
let’s drag the pattern into the image file. A quick little tip:
If you drag the pattern layer from one PSD document to another
You can drag it up to the tab, hold it on the tab, it will
switch to that photoshop document and then hold down the
Shift key and just drag it over the photoshop working area and
just let go. It will automatically snap right into the middle of
our image.
Now we want to set this pattern layer to the blend mode Multiply
And then we're going to add an Invert Adjustment Layer. So this
is up in the adjustments pannel, there's an invert adjustment
layer. We could also just go Layer, New Adjustment Layer,
Invert, if you can't find it up there that's alright.
Now we're going to clip this Adjustment Layer to the typography
pattern layer by using the hotkey Cmd/Ctrl + Alt/Opt + G.
Next, hide the pattern layer for a moment. Hit that little
eyeball to shut it off. We're going to go down and toggle the
little arrow on our smart object to wheel that layer down if we
need to. If it's already open that's alright. And then we're
just going to hide the Gaussian blur on that Smart Object layer.
It's just going to shut it off so we don't have to deal with it.
If we need to bring it back later we can. But right now
we don't need it. Then I'm going to use the quick selection tool
to grab just a ruff selection around our model. I'm going to
use the selected mask tool to further refine that selection
by going selection, select and mask. I'm just going to refine
the selection, make it reasonable. It doesn't have to
be perfect. Just kind of good enough. And then here in select
and mask I'm going to choose to output a selection
Now we're going to go ahead and turn on the typography pattern
and the Invert layers, turn them back on. We're going to select
both layers in the Layers panel by Shift-clicking them and then
use the hot key Cmd/Ctrl + G to group them together. Side
note here: The selection we outputted from Select and Mask
should still be active. You should still see those marching
and using that selection, while you have selected that group
that we just created, we're going to go layer, layer mask,
Reveal Selection. This will constrain the typography pattern
to just the model in the photo. Now open that layer group that
we just created. Select the typography layer. Convert it to
a smart object by right-clicking on it and choosing to convert
to a smart object. And then go Filter, Distort, Displace.
We're going to leave all the settings at default and hit OK.
Navigate to where you have saved your displacement map on your
hard drive and load it. After that, go to filter, choose
Sharpen, choose smart Sharpen and apply a 200%, 1.0px radius,
40% noise reduction pass of sharpening to this typography
pattern layer. Next, add a mask directly to this pattern layer
the one that we just converted to a smart object, add a mask to
it by hitting the new mask icon in the bottom of the layers
pannel. Hit the letter D to reset your foreground and
background color. [correction on screen] It should set black
as your foreground color
Grab the brush tool, use a large, soft-edged brush and paint the
type pattern away from some detailed areas of the head and
face. I’m painting away bits of this pattern over the eyes, the
hair, and maybe a tiny bit in some of the darker shadow areas
of the face as well. Do this to taste as you think your image
can use it or needs it. Now once you think your finished painting
a quick side note: hold down Alt /Opt + click on the layer mask.
It will allow you to view the alpha channel, which is just the
black and white and you can see if there's arias, like the hair
that look like they are not showing through any pattern. If
you see streaks and bits of white up there, just paint over
that stuff with black. You might not be able to see if the first
time you look at it, but you might come back after the image
is done or it's sent off to a client there's a little bit in
the pattern coming through. So just to make sure you catch any
of that. Just enter into that alpha mode of the mask
and make sure it's all painted black and then you can just Alt
or Opt-click on the mask again to get back to your normal
standard editing mode. Now we're going to reach down and duplicate
the underlying black and white image that smart object we made
way back closer to the beginning of the video. Just hold down your
Alt/Opt key and just click on that layer and drag it right up
above this layer group. That's going to duplicate it and have
it placed on top of our layer group. and then we're going to
go Filter, Other, High Pass and set a High Pass filter on this
of probably around 7px. Something like 7-10px I find works well.
Set this layer to the Overlay blend mode and reduce the opacity
to 50%. Next, let's add a Curves Adjustment Layer and boost the
contrast, but particularly boost the contrast with an boosting
level of the white in this image. And now that we've done that
it's time to have a little bit of fun. Lets add some color to
this. Colorize this image. Let's add a Gradient Map adjustment
layer that runs from the color #2a1a21 on the left, to the
color #fffadd on the right. You can see how that's giving us this
really neat color effect. Now I also found this cool
watercolor image on Adobe Stock. I downloaded that.
I’m going to position it near the top of the image, set it to
the blend mode of Multiply, and just mask it around the model’s
head. Next, we’ll add a little more intensity to this color
with a LUT, or Lookup Table, but to prepare for that boost of
intensity and contrast, we need to dull the image a little by
adding a Levels Adjustment Layer and setting the Output black
slider to 40 and the Output white slider to 225.
Now go ahead and add the Color Lookup Table Adjustment Layer
and choose from the dropdown menu EdgyAmber.3DL LUT it's
included with Photoshop. You should have it if you have
photoshop. And then we're going to set this layer to the blend mode
of Soft Light to complete this effect. of corse, you can reduce
the opacity a little bit if you find that your image needs
it. Play with it, do what looks good. And I think one last thing
to tweak the color a little bit more before we get out of here
is to add a Selective Color Adjustment Layer and just boost
the blues, magentas, and cyans in the Neutrals and Blacks to
help level out the image a little. And there we have it!
A completed typography portrait effect that will be sure to
impress anyone!
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Now, if you did create this effect, I would love to see it.
you can upload it to Instagram you can tag me in it. My Instagram
is @tutvid. Just tag me in the image that way it comes through
my tagged images and I never lose track. Because I, sometimes I
lose track a little bit but I can always go back and look.
where as if you just tag me in the caption it shows up in my
notifications. Then it's here today and gone tomorrow.
kind of thing. And then it's hard for me to keep up with it
there. So make sure you tag me in the image, that's really
helpful. And I would love to see what you guys create. give you a
little like, give you a comment. Show you some love. Thank's for
coming in and trying out this tutorial and hanging out
with us today. So, for creating this effect in photoshop. That
deep typography effect, with patterns and smart objects and
a little blur a little highpass and little of this and a little
of that and a little of the other, that's it! Get it? Got
it? Good!
Nathaniel Dodson, tutvid.com, I'll catch you in the next one.