sparkler effect

"Daniela D

Carrie wrote:

"Daniela Dürbeck" wrote in message

Hi!

Here the author applied a very nice effect to the font:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fw-image-daddy/balearic-thread/ but I cannot find a tutiorial in the web how to make that effect. Does anybody know how one can achieve such an effect?

Thank you very much in advance,
Dani

I am going to try some things, but I wonder if it’s a brush? Put on after the letters. Or, maybe a font, looks more like fiber (yarn) than sparkle. But, I’m more like you, I see something like this and try and find it and if I can’t, ask around.

Not to be mean, but why not try to create this "effect" yourself? For years and years I’ve looked at these newsgroups and read hundreds of posts asking about this ‘plug in’ and this ‘filter’, but- well, there are people, myself included, who actually sit down in front of our macs or pcs and create things, not spend hours on the web or in newsgroups looking for shortcuts. Make something new! Make something old! Learn to use the software! It’s not rocket science, believe me.

"hank" wrote in message

Carrie wrote:

"Daniela D

hank wrote:

Not to be mean, but why not try to create this "effect" yourself? For years and years I’ve looked at these newsgroups and read hundreds of posts asking about this ‘plug in’ and this ‘filter’,

It was not Carrie, actually it was me who asked. And believe me, I would not have asked, if I had the slightest idea how to make it. But, OK, I must confess that I am not a Photoshop professional, I am just a Software developer who likes to use Photoshop in her spare time.

are people, myself included, who actually sit down in front of our macs or pcs and create things, not spend hours on the web or in newsgroups looking for shortcuts. Make something new! Make something old! Learn to use the software! It’s not rocket science, believe me.

So perhaps you have a rough idea how this effect can be achieved? It would be also helpful if you told that similar effects can be applied to fonts using e.g. brushes, like Carrie thought. I do not know.

Greetings from Dani

"Daniela Duerbeck" wrote in message

hank wrote:

Not to be mean, but why not try to create this "effect" yourself? For years and years I’ve looked at these newsgroups and read hundreds of posts asking about this ‘plug in’ and this ‘filter’,

It was not Carrie, actually it was me who asked. And believe me, I would not have asked, if I had the slightest idea how to make it. But, OK, I must confess that I am not a Photoshop professional, I am just a Software developer who likes to use Photoshop in her spare time.

are people, myself included, who actually sit down in front of our macs or pcs and create things, not spend hours on the web or in newsgroups looking for shortcuts. Make something new! Make something old! Learn to use the software! It’s not rocket science, believe me.

So perhaps you have a rough idea how this effect can be achieved? It would be also helpful if you told that similar effects can be applied to fonts using e.g. brushes, like Carrie thought. I do not know.

Greetings from Dani

I sometimes put "free fonts" in google and look over the pages, and download interesting ones. You would have to look over them (the samples) or maybe put in "free fonts, fiber look". You called it sparkly, but I thought more of fiber. I like fonts and also I enjoy a challenge. I’m not reallly a Photoshop expert, either, so Im always learning something new. I think people who tell you things like create it yourself or figure it out probably just have no idea what the answer is, and don’t want to bother finding out. These forums are started and here to help people with questions. I used to go on the MS Publisher one and people on there would patiently answer the same questions (or similar) over and over and over. And try and help me when I couldn’t figure something out.
If people don’t know the answer and don’t want to comment in a positive way, why bother writing anything.

Carrie wrote:

I sometimes put "free fonts" in google and look over the pages, and download interesting ones. You would have to look over them (the samples)

No, I didn’t search for a font with this effect, because the posted example is a font where the effect was afterwards somehow applied to. "Please note: the wispy effect in the illustrations were applied to characters from the font but is not part of the font itself." The font itself can be seen here:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fw-image-daddy/balearic-thread/ regular/ So the exciting thing is indeed the effect and not the font itself. 🙂

or
maybe put in "free fonts, fiber look". You called it sparkly, but I thought more of fiber.

I was lacking the correct word. In German we call things that make such effects "Wunderkerzen".
If you "write" with such a Wunderkerze into the dark and take a photo with long exposure time you get photos with exactly this effect: http://www.tech-talk.de/2008/08/10/light-painting-mit-wunder kerzen/ So looking at the real photos you can see that the artistic effect applied to the font in the first mentioned picture is pretty much the same. Here is an example how these Wunderkerzen look when not lighted: http://www.karneval-megastore.de/html/product_info.php?produ cts_id=16838&nsctrid=Z2Jhc6dkZac. In this shop they are called "sparklers", so I thought this would be the correct name. Do you know a better english word for them? But they are not "electric", they are lighted with fire.

If people don’t know the answer and don’t want to comment in a positive way, why bother writing anything.

LOL. :-)))

Greetings from Dani

Daniela Duerbeck was inspired to say

Carrie wrote:

or maybe put in "free fonts, fiber look". You called it sparkly, but I thought
more of fiber.

I was lacking the correct word. In German we call things that make such effects "Wunderkerzen".
If you "write" with such a Wunderkerze into the dark and take a photo with long exposure time you get photos with exactly this effect: http://www.tech-talk.de/2008/08/10/light-painting-mit-wunder kerzen/ So looking at the real photos you can see that the artistic effect applied to the font in the first mentioned picture is pretty much the same.

Just to say that, from a UK viewpoint, the word ‘sparkler’ was absolutely clear to me. Glad to have learned the Deutsch! 😉

Mike

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Michael J Davis
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"Daniela Duerbeck" wrote in message

Carrie wrote:

I sometimes put "free fonts" in google and look over the pages, and download interesting ones. You would have to look over them (the samples)

No, I didn’t search for a font with this effect, because the posted example is a font where the effect was afterwards somehow applied to. "Please note: the wispy effect in the illustrations were applied to characters from the font but is not part of the font itself." The font itself can be seen here:
http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fw-image-daddy/balearic-thread/ regular/ So the exciting thing is indeed the effect and not the font itself. 🙂

or maybe put in "free fonts, fiber look". You called it sparkly, but I thought
more of fiber.

I was lacking the correct word. In German we call things that make such effects "Wunderkerzen".
If you "write" with such a Wunderkerze into the dark and take a photo with long exposure time you get photos with exactly this effect: http://www.tech-talk.de/2008/08/10/light-painting-mit-wunder kerzen/ So looking at the real photos you can see that the artistic effect applied to the font in the first mentioned picture is pretty much the same. Here is an example how these Wunderkerzen look when not lighted: http://www.karneval-megastore.de/html/product_info.php?produ cts_id=16838&nsctrid=Z2Jhc6dkZac. In this shop they are called "sparklers", so I thought this would be the correct name. Do you know a better english word for them? But they are not "electric", they are lighted with fire.

If people don’t know the answer and don’t want to comment in a positive way, why bother writing anything.

LOL. :-)))

Greetings from Dani

I don’t always know the answer, but sometimes comment (hopefully in a positive way) because sometimes the person asks and no one even comments on it. Maybe they will in time. Sometimes I make a guess (and state this) sometimes I, too would like to know the answer.
That’s interestingthe "Wunderkerzen". Even though it’s German it sounds like what it looks like.
I call those things you light and they sparkle "sparklers" too. They have some kind of powered gun power lightly attached to them not compressed to explode but just to burn with that effect. I don’t know of a better word. I don’t understand what those pictures you posted are made from? Oh, I think I see, someone holds the lit sparkler and draws the picture with the camera on, taking the picture of it? "Write with a Wunderkerze/sparkler" like in the air in the dark.
We mainly have these in stores and people have them around 4th of July- Independance Day.
Opening the lens at night and taking a picture of a car (headlights or tailights) coming along a road also gives an effect.
I did think the sparkly looking font was plain font with something added to it. I have paint brushes in PS that look like that (effect)

"Michael J Davis" wrote in message

Daniela Duerbeck was inspired to say

Carrie wrote:

or maybe put in "free fonts, fiber look". You called it sparkly, but I thought
more of fiber.

I was lacking the correct word. In German we call things that make such effects "Wunderkerzen".
If you "write" with such a Wunderkerze into the dark and take a photo with long exposure time you get photos with exactly this effect: http://www.tech-talk.de/2008/08/10/light-painting-mit-wunder kerzen/ So looking at the real photos you can see that the artistic effect applied to the font in the first mentioned picture is pretty much the same.

Just to say that, from a UK viewpoint, the word ‘sparkler’ was absolutely clear to me. Glad to have learned the Deutsch! 😉

Me, too, and doesn’t Wunderkerzen sound just like what it is?

Mike

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Michael J Davis
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