Comments on: How to Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Unique Distressed Text Effect http://www.devlounge.net/general/how-to-use-adobe-illustrator-to-create-a-unique-distressed-text-effect Design, Develop, and Grow Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:03:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DON’T MEASURE: The Best Graphic Design Articles from April 2008 | Dalton Trent's Blog http://www.devlounge.net/general/how-to-use-adobe-illustrator-to-create-a-unique-distressed-text-effect/comment-page-1#comment-174491 DON’T MEASURE: The Best Graphic Design Articles from April 2008 | Dalton Trent's Blog Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:17:45 +0000 http://www.devlounge.net/articles/how-to-use-adobe-illustrator-to-create-a-unique-distressed-text-effect#comment-174491 [...] How to Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Unique Distressed Text Effect - from Dev Lounge Learn how to make your own grunge font in illustrator. [...] [...] How to Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Unique Distressed Text Effect – from Dev Lounge Learn how to make your own grunge font in illustrator. [...]

]]> By: DON’T MISS: The Best Graphic Design Articles from April 2008 | Dalton Trent's Blog http://www.devlounge.net/general/how-to-use-adobe-illustrator-to-create-a-unique-distressed-text-effect/comment-page-1#comment-165727 DON’T MISS: The Best Graphic Design Articles from April 2008 | Dalton Trent's Blog Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:13:11 +0000 http://www.devlounge.net/articles/how-to-use-adobe-illustrator-to-create-a-unique-distressed-text-effect#comment-165727 [...] How to Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Unique Distressed Text Effect - from Dev Lounge Learn how to make your own grunge font in illustrator. [...] [...] How to Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Unique Distressed Text Effect – from Dev Lounge Learn how to make your own grunge font in illustrator. [...]

]]> By: David Bennett http://www.devlounge.net/general/how-to-use-adobe-illustrator-to-create-a-unique-distressed-text-effect/comment-page-1#comment-145385 David Bennett Wed, 14 May 2008 20:21:28 +0000 http://www.devlounge.net/articles/how-to-use-adobe-illustrator-to-create-a-unique-distressed-text-effect#comment-145385 Alternative method using displacement maps in photoshop: Create a photoshop file of something interesting (see below) and save as an 8bit psd. Call it popsicle.psd Type your text. It will be a layer in your psd file. Go to filter/distort/displace A box will come up to tell you that your text will be rasterized. Click OK Now you in the displacement dialogue box. Follow the instructions. You have to choose some values. The default values are modest. If your file and your typeface are big, you may find that you can choose much bigger values in the dialog box. Choose popsicle.psd as the displacement map file. Look at the results. Don't like it? Undo and try again with different values. Do like it? Want more? Do it again and get more effect. Alternative method using displacement maps in photoshop:
Create a photoshop file of something interesting (see below) and save as an 8bit psd. Call it popsicle.psd
Type your text. It will be a layer in your psd file.
Go to filter/distort/displace
A box will come up to tell you that your text will be rasterized. Click OK
Now you in the displacement dialogue box.
Follow the instructions. You have to choose some values. The default values are modest. If your file and your typeface are big, you may find that you can choose much bigger values in the dialog box.
Choose popsicle.psd as the displacement map file.
Look at the results.
Don’t like it? Undo and try again with different values.
Do like it? Want more? Do it again and get more effect.

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]]> By: neil http://www.devlounge.net/general/how-to-use-adobe-illustrator-to-create-a-unique-distressed-text-effect/comment-page-1#comment-144864 neil Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:42:16 +0000 http://www.devlounge.net/articles/how-to-use-adobe-illustrator-to-create-a-unique-distressed-text-effect#comment-144864 There are couple of font sites at the web 2.0 directory, Listio, fyi There are couple of font sites at the web 2.0 directory, Listio, fyi

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