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Photoshop Tutorial – Face Transform with Type
March 24, 2010 18 Comments and 1 Reaction
Topics]Graphic Design / Photoshop / TutorialAuthor]Paul Andrew

In this tutorial, written again by VioletBag, you are going to learn how to change a normal and basic image of a little kid and transform his face so that it appears to be constructed with text.
There are fifteen easy to follow steps tocomplete this tutorial and should not take you any longer than 30 minutes to complete.
You can download the source file, including the .PSD file, here:
* Face with Type Source Files
And this is thefinal image you will learn to create:

Step 1
First we start by opening this Picture of the face of the kid below (source files).

Step2
We need to firstly resize the image so that it will workbetter with the parameters being used in this tutorial.
Go to Image > Image Size and apply the following settings:

Step 3
Now that we have our image resized go to the bottom part of the layerspanel and add an Adjustment Layer: Curves.
Click on the icon that is a half black and half white circle, as you can see below.

Step 4
We now need to merge the Picture and the adjustment layer.Convert the background layer into a normal layer and double click on it and hit OK.
Then select the kid layer and the adjustment layer and press CTRL + ALT + E. You will now have your merged layer.Step 5
Add another layer and fill it with black.

Step 6
Grab the text tool and draw a rectangle that covers the entire image, as you can see below:

Step 7
Start typing any text anything youwant (this tut used Georgia, 8pt). What you need to do is select the paragraph mode to justified-center. Use the one that is selected in the picture below.

Step 8
Keep on typing until you coverthe whole image with text…

Step 9
Now add a layer mask to this type layer. Hit the icon that is on the bottom of the layers palette, the one that is a rectangle with a circle inside.

Step 10...