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Me in NYC – Dave Cross’ Text Portrait (Cool!)

CATEGORIES: Living In Layers | RC | September 03, 2009

Hey everyone, so I’m about to step out to NYC for some shooting – of which I am waaay excited about. But before I go, there was a really cool tutorial from Dave Cross on how to create a portrait of a person using text. Check it out below:

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Photoshop CS4: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
I love Photoshop techniques that offer all kinds of possibilities for experimentation—and the following tutorial is a perfect example of one of those techniques. In this issue, we’re going to take a portrait and replace the person’s image with text (think 2009 Grammy posters).

1 CHOOSE YOUR PHOTO

Pick a portrait that offers good contrast—a photo that’s very dramatic and dark probably won’t work as well. I’ve had the best success with straight-on head and shoulder shots, but again, feel free to experiment with all types of photos. For the best results, choose a photo that has a light background (or select the background around the person and make it lighter).

Click here to read the rest of the tutorial

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