John Nack on Adobe: Thursday Type: Steve Jobs, flying milk, & more

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Dylan Roscover has used typefaces from Apple ads to render a beautiful portrait of Steve Jobs. (Make sure to click the image to see a larger version.) [Via] Fair warning: seeing this portrait gave me weird dreams.
To borrow from AJ Soprano, "What, no {freakin'} Papyrus??" Still, this take on photographers' logos rings pretty true.
Milk goes airborne to create letters in Jónas Valtýsson's Sequences project.
Yulia Brodskaya works in cutout paper, lending dimension to pretty swashes.

Overviews & tutorials:
- Photoshop forum user Phosphor has written up detailed tips for navigating through & editing text in PS.
- On PSDTUTS, Alvaro Guzman has created A Comprehensive Introduction to the Type Tool.
- Alex Beltechi shows How to Create a Richly Ornate Typographic Illustration in Photoshop.

Posted by John Nack at 6:42 AM on May 21, 2009

dave Cross — 10:10 AM on May 21, 2009 Reply to this comment

Cool stuff!
Here's a tut I did on creating a portrait from text - and the text remains editable:
http://www.vimeo.com/3052782

[Sounds cool, Dave; will check it out in a minute. --J.]

Michael Smith — 2:02 PM on May 21, 2009 Reply to this comment

If you haven't yet seen the PVP Online take on font snobbery, it's quite humorous.