Poster style: TEXT MAPPINGlet's start off with a black and white pic
if you have a colored pic and want to convert it to Black and White (also known as grayscale)
click image on the menu and choose convert to > grayscale
now for the fun part...
By using the text tool, create a line of text on the most upper part of the pic
use the selector tool to select the object that we made (1st line of text) then copy and
paste it below.. this will be the 2nd line of text. You may repeat until the whole pic is
filled with text.
However, you may experience alignment issues. So in order to help you align objects in PP10
use the RULER located at the right hand side of the screen.
How to use the ruler: click the yellow ruler icon on the right side controls.
this will bring up the horizontal and vertical rule which you'll see on the images' top and lefthand side.
click that rule, hold mouse button and drag anywhere on the screen to bring a ruler line.
you can add as many ruler lines to your image, this will not be present once you save the image
because it's just a guide.
to delete tlhe rule lines... simply drag them to the left or to the top (where they came from)
it should end up like this.... (i used 4 vertical ruler lines as a guide)
note: you can remove the ruler lines at any point because they have served their purpose.
now select all the text on the pic then create mask from object.
caution: be very careful NOT to select the base layer, just select the text.
now that we've created a mask from all the texts.. delete all the texts, this will leave the
mask behind.
note that the color of the mask ants are green and red, not the usual green and white?
that's because we're in grayscale mode and not in RGB
at this point i inverted the mask by hitting the (INSERT) key then activated the
Tone balance (CTRL+Q)
then adjusted the proper levels by dragging the "S" or shadow bar in TONE BALANCE
afterwards hit OK then remove mask by hitting CTRL+R
now we're going to use the warp brush so that the fonts will not look flat
simply use like regular brush. follow the contours of the face. click and drag.
take a bit of practice though. remember that the undo (ctrl+z) is your best friend
after i'm done with the warp brush and did some minor adjustments using the tone balance,
here it is...
note that you'll achieve much better results if you used smaller fonts with very narrow gaps.
here's another example...
