Patchy Text Effect

June 10th, 2006 by Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Text Effects

1. Reset your colours to default (press ‘d’). Type whatever it is you want to type in black. Next rasterize the type.


2. Go to Filter -> Artistic -> Coloured Pencil, and set the Width to 4, the Pressure to 8, and the Brightness to 25. Next go to Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Angled Strokes and set the Balance to 50, the Length to 15, and the Sharpness to 3, click Ok.


3. Bring up the Levels Dialog Box (Ctrl + L), and change the Input Levels to 52, 2.99, 150, I got the image on the right.



4. Next Bring up the Curves dialog box (Ctrl + M), and fool around with the colour curves, I got the image on the right.


5. Go to Filter -> Pixelate -> Crystalize and set a value of 10. Go to Filter -> Blur -> Blur More. Go to Filter -> Pixelate -> Fragment.

6. Next Bring up the Curves dialog box (Ctrl + M), and fool around with the colour curves, I got the image on the right.

7. Go to Filter -> Pixelate -> Crystalize and set a value of 10. Go to Filter -> Blur -> Blur More. Go to Filter -> Pixelate -> Fragment.


9. Go to Filter -> Artistic -> Sponge, and set the Brush Size to 2, the Definition to 12, and the Smoothness to 5.

Final result:


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