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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:48 pm  (#11) 
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That isn't too bad Draconian. A little gloss with the shine script may do the trick. Just to make it waxy looking like crayon. :)

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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 6:01 pm  (#12) 
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I tried to do exactly that but as I just got thru posting on your snake breath thread, I can't get shine to work. That's what it needs alright.

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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:11 pm  (#13) 
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Found this font,it is called eraser medium on dafont.com
it is based on a video tut on youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJQCXwjCSDQ

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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:14 pm  (#14) 
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I went ahead and wrote a script for a crayon effect. This should work for any larger size text.
Small text will get highly distorted.Here are some examples.
Keep in mind the red color is from the layer in screen mode above all the text layers.
Also once the filter is applied the text is rasterized, and is no longer editable.
If you like these i will attach the script in a dedicated post elsewhere.
Calibri Italic seems to work the best.

The crayon text that has a rectangle around it is the commercial font Crumbled Crayon.
That was my target goal. :) I think i got pretty close.

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Also this effect works best on a white bg , and the fonts in the image work the best.
Let me know what you think and i will go from there. :) :bigthup

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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:45 pm  (#15) 
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Nice one Rod!

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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:36 am  (#16) 
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Nice work Rod. The one in the middle would be my choice, looks more realistic than the sharp edges on all the rest of the examples. They look too contrived. I don't see that shine you were talking about applied here.

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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:51 pm  (#17) 
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Seeing Rod's sample, I realized this looks similar to the distressed results of my water ripple script: http://registry.gimp.org/node/24597

You might get something satisfactory playing with that...

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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:33 pm  (#18) 
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I still believe that Spread Noise with a very low setting like 3 followed by a Gaussian Blur of 1 yeilds a much more crayon like effect. Too much Spread Noise and it starts looking more like chaulk.

I fooled around with this a little more and ended up using Glossy Stroke to finish it off. To put a few holes in it I also used a desaturated RGB Noise @.50, then levels and a few other tweaks to get some good particles then Alpha selected the Noise layer and used it to delete from the text layers before the blur step.

I know, clear as mud. Anyhoo, here's a couple. One ended up looking good enought to eat!


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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:45 pm  (#19) 
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I will eat the first on as a gum drop and the second as a ju-jube yummy

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 Post subject: Re: crayon font
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:55 pm  (#20) 
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:rofl And I was thinking the second one had icing on it!

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