Creating A Text Montage

May 8th, 2006 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Special Effects This is a technique that you have probably seen before. A face, or picture, is made up of a huge body of text, but the text is different colors or shades to make it look like the picture? Yea, it’s a really cool technique, and now you can easily re-create it. This effect looks like it would take a lot of time and effort, but in all reality it is pretty easy (just took me forever to figure out :P) and simple to do. First, find a picture you want to convert to a text montage. Alright, now, we’re going to convert it to black and white. Alright, a box will pop up once you click Channel Mixer. Alright, now you need the text that will make up the image. Now, grab your text tool (T), and drag a rectangle over the entire image. This is just making the text closer together, and evenly spaced. Ok, now duplicate your text layer twice. Ok, now in the Layers palette, make the text layers invisible, by clicking the eye.

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