how do you do typography? where do you do it?
I just do it on photoshop cs5…it’s a pretty complex process that I learned in school. I don’t know how well I can explain it lol XD It takes a lot of patience and practice, and I don’t suggest doing it on a slow computer because you will hit your head against a desk. Basically you’ll just have the image that your doing a typography of as your background, like this:
Then you’ll use the eye dropper tool to select the color of an area that is relatively consistent (it’ll be tiny, get used to that)
Then you will use the text tool to write out a word, it can be any old word you want. The word will be written in the color that you selected with the eye dropper tool. I personally like working in caps and no spaces.
Then, you will right click the text layer, and click rasterize type. This basically means your making the text into an image so you can transform it any way you want. Then on the top menu bar, click edit, then go down to transform, then rotate and warp and scale the text until it fits the area with the similar color.
Then basically you just keep repeating those steps until you completely fill up the image! Then you delete the background, and it’ll look like this:
Choose a fairly simple image with bold colors
You’ll be zooming in and out of the image a lot
Be PATIENT. It takes a tooon of time. My first typography took me 4 weeks of 2 hours of work on weekdays (because I was doing it only in class). This one of Chanyeol took me 6 days of 10 hours of work.
You’ll end up with a LOT of layers (I’m talking like 800+) So its good to work with folders. I usually do like a feature (eye, nose, hand, shirt ect.) in a folder, and then when I finish that, I merge the layers (select all the layers in the folder, right click, click merge layers) and put them in a “done” folder. But make sure you are happy with everything first, because you can’t undo it.
Because of your hundreds of layers it is hard to fix mistakes because you will literally spend 20 mins trying to find that one “fire” where you went wrong. People won’t zoom in and try and find every error, so just let it go unless its SUPER visible.
Other short cuts you’ll kind of figure out on your own as you go. It helps to have a general understanding of photoshop as well. I hope this helps! If you have any other questions let me know. Good Luck! (if you end up doing one, message me (off anon) when you’re done :D I wanna see!)
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