PhotoMaster's Cloudy Text Tutorial

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:34 am **(#1)**

This is a simple Cloudy Text tutorial. I believe I got the font from dafonts.com website.

Cloudy Text Tutorial by photomastergreg, on Flickr

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:35 pm **(#2)**

Here's mine. I made my clouds gray.

PhotoMaster · **Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:50 pm **(#3)**

Great work! What font did you use? It's perfect for this one!

Oregonian · **Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:34 pm **(#4)**

This isn't the only cloud font. I like this one because it has small caps for the lower case. Alpha Clouds font

If you do a Google search for cloud fonts, you will find others.

I filled this in using solid noise and lightening it.

2-ton · **Posted:** Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:40 pm **(#5)**

had to do a quick try on this one!

LUCKY40 · **Joined:** Aug 31, 2010 **Posts:** 17

Oregonian wrote:

This isn't the only cloud font. I like this one because it has small caps for the lower case. Alpha Clouds font

If you do a Google search for cloud fonts, you will find others.

I filled this in using solid noise and lightening it.

How did you make the words without a background? I tried to make "LUCKY40" without a background and the background came out red. Maybe, its because I outline the letters in red?

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:17 pm **(#7)**

LUCKY40 wrote:

How did you make the words without a background? I tried to make "LUCKY40" without a background and the background came out red. Maybe, its because I outline the letters in red?

It's very likely you didn't have an alpha channel on your Lucky40 layer.

Right-click the LUCKY40 layer and in the drop down, choose Add Alpha channel.

If you are wondering what Alpha channel is, alpha = transparent.

Layers that don't have an alpha channel have bold type in their names. Also, if your image is a jpg, jpg doesn't support transparency. You're better off saving your image as a png image.

Mike · **Joined:** Aug 27, 2010 **Posts:** 491

I had a bit of fun with this ... :hehe

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:08 pm **(#9)**

Hey Mike! That's very cool!

Oregonian · **Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:22 pm **(#10)**

LUCKY40 wrote:

How did you make the words without a background? I tried to make "LUCKY40" without a background and the background came out red. Maybe, its because I outline the letters in red?

LUCKY40, I downloaded your sig. It's a jpg image and it will not support transparency. You need to save it as a png image. You probably had red as the BG color and that's why it came out with a red background.

I removed the white background and saved it as a png image. You can right-click it, download it and open it in GIMP to see the transparent bg in it.

LUCKY40 · **Joined:** Aug 31, 2010 **Posts:** 17

Oregonian wrote:

LUCKY40 wrote:

How did you make the words without a background? I tried to make "LUCKY40" without a background and the background came out red. Maybe, its because I outline the letters in red?

LUCKY40, I downloaded your sig. It's a jpg image and it will not support transparency. You need to save it as a png image. You probably had red as the BG color and that's why it came out with a red background.

I removed the white background and saved it as a png image. You can right-click it, download it and open it in GIMP to see the transparent bg in it.

Thank you! I got my sig the way I like it

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16133

Mine turned out kinda funky looking, maybe because of the two lines of text...lol