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Using Photoshop to accurately place text on buildings

Wednesday ~ February 02, 2007 by Pixelseed Posted in All free Photoshop tutorials

Hi there and welcome to this Photoshop tutorial. We’re going to be looking at a very simple but effective way of adding text to a building. To do this, we are going to use the Vanish Point tool to create the correct perspective. Once finished, you will easily be able to take a photograph and add your own details such as changing sign posts, street names or creating original billboards.

Final Image

As you can see from the final image, I have tried to give the impression that the text part of the wall of the building and not painted on like graffiti. Read on to find out how.

Step 1

Ok, you have your image opened in Photoshop and ready to go. I’m going to give you the keyboard shortcuts for each action. Using keyboard shortcuts significantly speeds up your work, so the sooner you learn them the better. By using them you also help to relieve stress in your wrist from repetitive mouse movements. Press ‘T’ on the keyboard to activate the Type tool. Enter your type and if you want to change the font, double click the text to highlight it then choose a font from the drop down menu at the top of your canvas. You could also change the size and color of the text now if you wish, but there is no real need as I will be showing you another way of doing it later on. When you have something similar to this, continue to step 2.

Step 2

What we need to do now is select our text and copy it to the clipboard. To do this, CRTL+click on the text layer in the Layers panel. (it should be highlighted in blue like this:

Step 3

Delete the text layer as we no longer need it. To delete, either right-click the text layer and choose ‘delete’, or simply drag the layer down over the little trash can icon at the bottom of the layers panel. (This is better as we don’t have to click the ‘Do you really want to delete this layer’ pop up warning). Next to the trash can icon you can see another called the ‘Create New layer’. By clicking this we get a new empty layer on top of the background layer. All we need do now is CRTL+D to deselect the text.

Using Photoshop to accurately place text on buildings - Part 2 >>>

“Comments”

Rich 17/02/07 - 7:21 pm

That’s a brilliant tutorial. Love it!

TutorialGeek 20/02/07 - 9:31 am

Thanks, Rich :)

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