Take a quick gander at this:
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How did they simulate the uneven coloring of a water-based ink pen? Does anyone have a quick method?
I have the font that is being used, just no quick method for making the uneven ink look?
Thanks!
#1
Gene,
I would't even think of a font. Since I have a tablet (Graphire 2), which is pressure sensitive, I would write the text by hand.
The pressure is then set up for opacity rather than width. Plus, Handwriting this way will prevent characters from being exactly the same.
In the case I did not have a tablet I would write on paper, scan it, put it on a layer and carefully manipulate partial opacity with a soft eraser brush.
Rob
#2
If you don't have a tablet, adding an adjustment layer with blurred clouds applied to its mask might do the job.
#3
If the text is on its own layer, you could use the Eraser brush set to a lower opacity. It appears to me that the first line is lightest, the second a little darker, and the third darkest. Rasterize the text layer, then change the opacity on each line of text and just give it a quick swipe with a large brush (wide enough to effect one line at a time).
That would probably be easiest for you. Rob and Pierre's methods will work as well. You could also try the dodge and burn tools.
That's the cool thing about Photoshop. There are almost always three or more ways to achieve an effect.
#4