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FREEBIE GRUNGE ALPHABET SET & Tutorial: How to Make a custom alphabet set.

Today's lesson is about making your own alphabets for your custom digital work.

1. Open a 3" x 3" file and on layer 1 type an A. I did mine 275 pts in size & franklin Gothic Heavy as the type style.

 2. Now let's add some color or pattern to it. Go to: Layer, Layer Style, Pattern Overlay and choose something you like. I used my Stripped Grunge Pattern, then hit ok.

 

3. Now, let's add an edge border around it, go to: Layer, Layer Style, Stroke: Change the position to inner, size 15, Fill type: Pattern and choose something you like to compliment your alphabet. I added my midght blue paper, hit ok.

4. Now let's add some dimension, go to: Layer, Layer Style, Bevel & Emboss: enter - Inner bevel, chisel soft, depth 100, size 46, soft 1.

you can leave it as it at this point OR keeping doing more things:

5. Now let's add some texture: Layer, Layer Styles, Bevel & Emboss, click on textures: bring up the same pattern, and change it to be the same size as your pattern (my was 57%) so the texture lines up exactly with the pattern. Also hit depth to what you would like, I hit mine at -10%, and hit ok.

There you go! Now to make the rest of the alphabet, just copy this A layer, Highlight the text and change to B, C, D, etc. Make sure to save each one as a png which gives it an invisible background.

Today's freebie is a set of this alphabet in all caps! I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and will try it yourself.

 

Here is the link for today's alphabet set.

http://www.4shared.com/file/52858402/8685713a/ALPHABET.html

 

Posted: Jun 25 2008, 08:19 AM by annamarie | with 2 comment(s)

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Desire2Reinvent said:

Thank you for the tutorials. I tried this one with my own patterns and I couldn't get it to look like anything remotely 3D or beveled. I couldn't get your last tutorial to work for me either. I am surely doing something wrong here. When I click on textures, I had to choose what was pre-loaded in PS; so I think I have to add my own in. I'll go back to trying this! It looks like fun once I get past the frustration! LOL -Mary

# June 25, 2008 7:53 PM

annamarie said:

Hi Mary, You are right, I made these and added them in my presets. Sounds like that should be my next tutorial.

When you make a paper design from scratch or if you bring in an already made one you can save it as a pattern in your presets folder, then once that is done, you will always have it available to use at a snap of the fingers.

So, you can call up the pattern in the pattern section, then re-call it up in the texture section to make it match in size. I'll include this exact paper in a tutorial today with instructions. Thanks for the feedback and hint of the next tutorial.

# June 26, 2008 3:19 AM