Photoshop Tutorial : How to make colorful mosaic text effect

Hey guys 

This is a new tutorial for how to make colorful mosaic text generally " color typography " .

well you need a bunch of photos 

it doesnt require big resolution just a high quality .

so  as always here is the final result

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Step 1 : 

first open a new image with suitable dimensions like below

then write the word you want 

well , Im going to put a lot of Pics over these letters , you can place one picture for each letter 

but the best thing is to place more than two pics over each letters .

so I used a random font like above but you can download a better font called  Quasoid Font

that you can download it from here . 

but I used the other font so I had to divide its part 

so I made a selection which its width fits the divided space like below :

so you can place it where ever you want and delete but before that you will have to rasterize the text .

then make a horizontal dividing 

I like it better than the other font .

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Step 2 :

Now we need to put one photo on one part ..how??!!

well we need to make each part on the text in one layer so as to make it easy to put the photo on it 

as Im going to make a procedure that will place the photo over the letter part where it cant exceed its borders .

first make each part in 1 layer 

so make a group labeled as the letter name like " group I "

then with " magic wand tool " select each part on that letter then right click , choose " layer via cut " . 

then place it in the letter group .

like below :

lets assume we divided the letter I , then these parts will be placed in each layer in the " I group " .

well . here are the result as before , you will find the five groups each group contains its letter parts .

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Step 3 :

Now we came to the important step " placing the pics " ,, how ??!

first open the photo in PS 

then move it to the main text PS

then resize it to look small enough to fit the letter part you will place it over .

like this 

now its over the small part of the i letter " over the i dot " .

now focus on this : 

       - make the letter part underneath the pic 

       - select the pic layer 

       - hold ALT and hover over the line separating the two layers 

       - click on it .

Note : you will see as soon as you place the mouse over that line the cursor change to another symbol 

            that when you click , you will notice the pic layer mover a little to the right and the pic became within the borders of the letter part like below

                  

Now continue doing this for all the parts with more photos 

it wont take long but its somehow boring so I had to watch FRIENDS along working .

Now we are done with Text picture placing " the main Step " .

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Step 4 :     " Finalizing " .

well now we need to place a background behinf the text 

Grab a texture background any where from the web 

I used this as a background .

you van end up with this result with making a drop shadow or any blend option you like 

but here I chosed to add a 3D effect , making exactly a 3D not effect 

you can review it here in this tutorial : " Photoshop Tutorial : How to make 3D Effect " .

but to make it clear :

open action window then make a new action , it will start recording immediatly then :

    - duplicate the text layer .

    - place it underneath th text layer.

    - CTRL+T then make its hight to 99.5 % but check the left icon to restrain its dimensions

 Stop recording then play the action several times to generate layers smaller the the previous 

so that make the 3D effect .

for more information get back to the " Photoshop Tutorial : How to make 3D Effect  " .

the result will be as follow

before you add shadow or anything :

grab the whole layers except the original one then merge them 

duplicate it

after that CTRL+Click on the layer’s thumbnail to select it 

then with a dark color click Edit >> fill >> ok 

then change its blend mode to Overlay or Color Dodge .

the 3D borders will be darker and more realistic like below :

Now you have three layers "   - original layer

                                               - duplicated over lay layer

                                               - the 3D layer 

make a drop shadow and outer glow to each layer from the 3 layers ,with suitable values .

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Then you may add stars like below it will enhance the effect and make it shiny .

you can download the Stars Brushs from  here 

Here you can see for more details that photo below
how the 3D effect looks like , and how the photo replacement will be effective 

And here is the final result 

Hope you like it

- You can view this Tutorial on YouTube  here

                           
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