50 masterpieces of typographical art.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

And not even one is mine ! :gaah

The page is almost endless and addictive ,( i could not resist to scroll till the end)

http://blog.reflexstock.com/2010/08/50- ... ypography/

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12536

Definitely some cool stuff here PC. Dabbled in some of these types over the years but never really mastered them. A cool program to create some of them like that of Obama is my pingotec.

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:58 pm **(#3)**

Aw, man. Those are extraordinary.

mixmax391 · **Joined:** Sep 05, 2011 **Posts:** 6

The basics of a text image is very easy to achieve with Gimp.

Check my Youtube tutorial on this subject.

http://www.youtube.com/user/235bluefox# ... nibBfpMxw0

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14730 **Location:** USA

A lot of those look like they were done in Xara or Adobe software.
It would be cool to duplicate some of these in Gimp.

Thanks PC, nice collection.

2-ton · **Posted:** Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:44 pm **(#6)**

I love the John Lennon Imagine one...any idea how that can be done?

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

i remember was a discussion here and several good attempts but i can't remember the topic title

Lorri · **Joined:** Sep 12, 2011 **Posts:** 377 **Location:** UK

That's something different in texting into on to image.

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 14730 **Location:** USA

Yes it is a text inlay 2-ton.
The text follows the contours of the area it is over.
Overlay mode usually works well for this.

It works similar to the effect i gave this image.Except i used a pattern instead of text.

Open your image
Create a new text layer with your cool text wording.
Select the image layer (bg)
Select the entire area you want to cover with text.
Switch to the text layer and edit/cut
Make the text layer you cut a new layer
Edit/Paste - the text cutout should then be set to overlay mode.
Then you will only need the two layers the original image and the text layer cutout layer.

Alonte · **Joined:** Jun 04, 2011 **Posts:** 254

Awesome!!!

2-ton · **Posted:** Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:03 pm **(#11)**

that sounds doable! looks like the artistic part is making some really cool text combinations!

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12536

Still one of my favorite programs for creating these is ASCIIgen. It's also Open Source (wasn't originally and originally didn't depend on .NET, but it does now).

ref: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/sixt ... 06-016.jpg

2-ton · **Posted:** Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:41 am **(#13)**

That is awesome, I think I need to snag that one!