Illustrator & Photoshop: Turn a Silhouette into a Typographical Layout

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Thanks goes to my student Shelby who reminded me that I’d made this video for one of my students taking the Digital Studio Tools course at the University of Regina in Fall 2015! Hope you have fun with it if you get a chance to check it out.

In this tutorial I use silhouettes created with the trace tool in adobe Illustrator as clipping masks in Adobe Photoshop. Type is then layered over the top of the silhouetted layers to create a cool ASCII’like effect. Then working with hue/saturation adjustment layers we look at how to colour the type on the layers below.

Digital Studio Tools will be running again at the University of Regina in Fall 2016.