Creating unevenly faded text type

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Chimerical One
Sep 9, 2006
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Does anyone know how to create the unevenly faded text effect?

Here’s an example:
< http://students2.autodesk.com/ama/images/splash-designfest06 .png>

(the words "fest" and "welcome to").

Any ideas?
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Gary Wedemayer
Sep 9, 2006
It looks like a variant on the leafworm effect, as seen in this tutorial:

http://www.dailytuts.com/leafworm.html

Rasterize your type and then play around as per the tutorial, and you should get pretty close to the effect you want.

Cheers!
—garywed

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 00:54:07 -0700, "Chimerical One" wrote:

Does anyone know how to create the unevenly faded text effect?
Here’s an example:
< http://students2.autodesk.com/ama/images/splash-designfest06 .png>
(the words "fest" and "welcome to").
Any ideas?
LE
Lawson English
Sep 9, 2006
Chimerical One wrote:
Does anyone know how to create the unevenly faded text effect?
Here’s an example:
< http://students2.autodesk.com/ama/images/splash-designfest06 .png>
(the words "fest" and "welcome to").
Any ideas?

If you’re on the Mac, there are fonts that have that built into them. You can change the appearance with sliders until you find the appearance you want.
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george_dingwall
Sep 9, 2006
Hi there,

Looks like the text is over a grungy background, and then a clipping mask has been used to block any grunge outside of the text boundary.

Hope this helps.
JJ
John Joslin
Sep 9, 2006
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Chimerical One
Sep 9, 2006
What’s a clipping mask?
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chrisjbirchall
Sep 9, 2006
F1 holds the secret 😉
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george_dingwall
Sep 9, 2006
Hi there,

A clipping mask is something that you use to block or mask one layer using the contents of another layer.

To create a clipping mask using text, try this.

Open an image that you want to use as a background. copy the background layer (Ctrl+J) and then delete the original background layer.

Create a text layer with some words of your choice.

Move the text layer below the background image in the layers pallet.

Now place the mouse cursor over the line that separates the 2 layers in the layers pallet, hold down the Alt button and the cursor will change to a little icon that is 2 circles overlapping.

Now click the mouse and all of the background image outside the boundary of the text will disappear or become masked.

What you are left with is the shape of the text which is now filled with the backround image. You should note that the text will no longer be editable after you create the clipping mask.

That’s it.

Good luck
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chrisjbirchall
Sep 9, 2006
Open an image that you want to use as a background. copy the background layer (Ctrl+J) and then delete the original background layer.

Alternatively, just double click the background layer and rename it. This will unlock it giving it "proper" layer characteristics.
JJ
John Joslin
Sep 9, 2006
Or for the traditional 3rd method, Alt + double click the background layer to skip the naming ceremony.

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