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How To Make Cute Furry Text In Photoshop
This is an article I wrote for last month’s PhotographyBB magazine. It’s good fun and might be something you could use for graphic design or personal work – it produces quite a cute effect. The idea is create some text that looks like it is covered in fur. The only tools you’ll need are the Type tool and the Brush tool.
1. Open a new document and let’s assume that this is going to print, so set the dpi to 300 and the dimensions to 6 inches by 6 inches.
2. Select the Type tool and add some text to your document. Choose a large heavy, sans-serif font. I’m using Myriad Pro bold. The colour doesn’t matter because we’ll be removing the text at the end.
3. Create a new layer above your text layer.
4. Select the Brush tool and in the options bar at the top, click on the drop down brushes menu and choose the Dune Grass brush.
5. The dune grass brush is set up so that it uses both the foreground and background colours selected in Photoshop. It “scatters” the dune grass as you paint and varies the colour of each blade of grass. So select your foreground and background colours to be in a similar hue, for example light blue and dark blue. Click once on the foreground colour swatch to open up the colour picker. I used a foreground colour of #0066FF and a background colour of #000033. I used a foreground colour of #0066FF and a background colour of #000033.
6. Have a little bit of practice by dragging the brush near the letter. You’ll see that by dragging backwards and forwards there is a build of dune grass.
7. Ok now that you have a feel for the brush, start to drag it around the letter. I’ve started at the top. See! It looks cute already.
8. There are two choices now, either to rotate the image and keep working around the letter, or to rotate the brush. We’re going to rotate the brush. Open the brushes palette by choosing Window > Brushes or hit F5. Click on the words “Brush Tip Shape” (yes this is a button!) at the top left of the brushes palette.
9. On the “Set Brush Direction” preview, click and drag the arrow and you will see the dune grass change direction. Continue to paint and change the angle so that the “fur” follows the angle of the letters.
10. Keep on painting and changing the angle until you have painted the whole way around the letter and then change the angle again and paint the inside of the letter till you end up with a nice furry letter like this;
11. The final step is to turn off the visibility on your original text layer. And that’s it! Hope you enjoyed making fur in Photoshop.
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Hahhhh! That’s hilarious! Well done, Jennifer… =) I might have to bring out that trick at some point!
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I really like your funky fur effect. It is grate fun. The boys will at work will have fun with it!
Thanks Tracey and Trevor. Glad you liked it!
Some of the most striking designs can be achieved with the simplest of means. The flurry effect is a case in point. It also shows (yet again) the power and flexibility of the Photoshop Brush Tool. Thanks for sharing.
well, that was fun, spent about an hour looking for the “dune grass” brush, and downloaded many fun and funky brushes, then reset the normal brushed, and scrolled down a little bit, and there it was.
My fur, does not look so good.. but will keep at it..
Ta very much
You’re very welcome Ed. I’m sure your fur turned out lovely!!
nice one jennifer again. gud work
i don have dune grass brush tool..can anyone temme where can i download that tool..pls
i saw this tutorial in the jap magazine, but didnt understand what they did it. now i finally found the tutorial in english!!
thx jennifer~i will make some cute design with this technique~
Thanks everyone for all the kind words and comments on this tutorial. Much appreciated.
no pictures:(