Typography experiments

I photoshop we have been playing around with text and imagery.

Here I have been using the warp text tool. First I wrote these words at random to give me something to work with. The effects I used include wave and fish-eye.

In this picture I have been trying out paths where we put text along a line. I used the pen tool to create the wavy line and I used the text tool, clicking on the line and then typing makes the type follow the line.

For this example I used the custom shape tool which gave me a choice of templates which I could fill in with my own choice of text. To do this I held the rectangle tool down, and selected custom shapes from the list. I chose a speech bubble from the selection by holding the left mouse button and dragging it down. I used the text tool and clicked inside it.

Finally for this I managed to place text inside a photo of my face. First I chose a picture of myself. I cropped it to include just my face and added a filter to make it monochromatic. I used the magic wand tool to select an area of my face and then used the text tool to add text. I used different colours for different sides of my face to enable the text to stand out. I like the effect of the grey scale and how the areas of light on my face contrast with each other, and how the text contrasts with this.