How to Create Realistic Printed Type in Adobe Photoshop

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In this tutorial we're going to look at how we can recreate realistic printed type, based of some great letterpress reference!

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Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Looking at Reference (Alan Kitching Book)
03:49 - Distorting the Type
10:50 - Creating a Print Texture (100% Photoshop)
15:48 - Using Scanned in Textures
19:21 - Comparing the two versions
20:27 - Breakdown and Outro

[paddingtonpear]

Brilliant tutorial – 8 years full-time in the design industry, amazing to continue learning through things like this.

[NosferatuG]

This is the best video I've found for doing realistic ink and very detailed. Thank you for the help!

[stephb]

A great video find - and I've looked through enough tutorials and videos before finding this one that worked for my design project, thank you! Love the texture changes by clicking on Clouds!!😄👍

[Metalovai]

I would never think of changing the blend mode as you did at 9:50. Good to know. Pretty good effect, thanks for the tutorial.

[John_Morley]

This was very helpful thanks a stack.
Quality stuff and dig the chilled vibe

[Jake-umyf]

This is such a great tutorial!! You really know what you're doing. Super clear and concise too 🔥 Learned so much. Thanks!

[nickseitzer]

Okay! I finally figured it out! I should credit you, this was completely my fault. The key was to create a NEW layer and don't select the text layer when adding filters. I admittedly tried to skip ahead and paid the price for it! Well done! Where do I get the texture pack?

[lordmaximus]

Really great tutorial. I love that you explain what you're doing as well. Learned lots about photoshop as well as how to make the text.

[collectnsell]

when i get to the filter gallery stage, its always white instead of black. i checked the bottom. the black squre is on top of the white squre yet its still white when try to use the filter gallery

[MasonHarris-joch]

You're making a difference, one video at a time.

[swelllab]

Well done. You could totally package these techniques into a PS action. Love how non destructive this is.

[Momotempo]

Yeah, I echo others, I learned a bunch of tricks in one here and I first used Photoshop in the 80s. I stepped through this with you and it gave me JUST what I needed, thank you. Plus, you did this so nicely it felt like we were on a work jam. Cheers indeed.

[elijahsolorzano]

Guys I found that adding a touch of Gaussian Blur in the end brings it all together. In my project at least. Definitely recommend trying that if you’re making newspaper print

[sharonj]

Best tutorial on making this type of ink effect.

[gusseDSX]

This was a superb tutorial - would love to see alot more videos from you! ❤️

[CallusedFuture]

Super helpful for a newbie. Thanks dude

[tanneragpoon]

dude this was so helpful. you are great at what you do man, i really appreciate this.

[elone]

Nice toot. You see so many people just parroting other people's ideas without understanding the fundamentals but you clearly do so well done on that. I also prefer wave over using ripple as the ripple does strange things to the horizontal\vertical distortion - their not uniform at all. Wave seems to be properly proceedural. Oh and on the wave randomise, from memory, it will probably be just changing the 'phase' or 'offset' of the waveform so basically just picking a different point in time. I wish Photoshop had better preview options for filters - it's just archaic and basically lazy on their part. Also including some more fractal noise methods would make it SO much more flexible. Adobe just haven't done anything in this area since forever and it's kinda laughable at how basic their interface is. Anyways, rant aside, good job buddy! 👍😉

[Astlaus]

One gotcha I found is that the image must not use 16 or 32 bit depth, otherwise Filter Gallery won't work on Smart objects.

[andyallen]

This is fantastic, thanks so much for putting it together!