The Design Center Front Page . . / . DT&G Magazine . . / . . &Type! _/_ IMPLE AND FUN are the orders of the day when you want to shake up your type a bit. This technique was easy to do and print since the colors were left in their purest CYMK values. Surrounding an article on web personalities, the designer wanted the reader to get a little sick feeling. It worked. They set the type for the article, then rotated three copies at different angles. Each copy was then colorized Magenta, Cyan and Yellow. The borders around the pictures were handled in the same fashion. We set our example first in Illustrator, converted the type to paths, and assigned a stroke that looked about right. Saving as an EPS file, the layout artist simply imports them into Quark or whatever. For our demonstration here, we imported them into Photoshop for the final touches. In our “Quake” word we simply keyed in the initial word, and while it was active we saved the selection. Then New layer -> paste another copy, then -> offset slightly, and -> rotate slightly. Load the selection -> Modify > Expand a pixel or two, and delete. That leaves the white space around the original letter. Repeate that sequence a few times and now you got me QUAKING! Too much trouble??? Well... in that case, just set your type in Photoshop or ColorIT! and open the new “Eye Candy” plug-in from Alien Skin and hit the “Jiggle” command!* If you need a lot of rockin’ and rollin’ letters, you may want to select a pre-shattered font... our samples at left are: (top to bottom) Lower West Side and Starburst by David Rakowski; Crackey by James Chin; Jazzy Cracked byFantazia Concepts, and FutureShock II by Jim Rinaldo. Others abound, and you can download these whereever shareware fonts are found. (click on samples above to find samples of the fonts) You can download these fonts for both Macintosh and Windows from links posted in the Publishers' Warehouse Loading Dock. Back to &Type! [ The Design Center ] _ [ DTG Newsletter ] _ [ Designers' Bookshelf ] Want to discuss it? Subscribe to The Designers' CAFE copyright 1997 DT&G Magazine You are visiting: http://www.graphic-design.com/Type/ Copyright 1996 - 2000, Showker Graphic Arts, for the The Design & Publishing Center, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Notes: The screen shots herein represent the copyrighted works of their respective owners, and are used here for editorial demonstration purposes. please read and be aware of our Legal Properties & Disclaimers document. Not all areas of the online environment allow special characters such as the registration and trademark marks. This file will alert you to proprietary works that cannot be duplicated or distributed. Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001 by Showker Graphic Arts, The Design & Publishing Center, on behalf of the respective authors and artists. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. &photographic, Photoshop Tips & Tricks, &Type, WebDesign & Review, and Pixelsmith are all trademarks for The Design & Publishing Center. Other products mentioned in these pages are the registered trademarks of their respective owners.