I want to design a site where the title and the nav items are written to look like chalk (white, chalky style)... the page background will be black (like a "black board").
Anyone know a font that looks like *realistic* chalk? Or a font that can be manipulated in photoshop to look that way? Thanks!
take a look here (http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/elemeno/chalk/) not free though
Or check this one for free here (http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id=1397)
The second font Juguard suggested looks ok. But the first Is just plain crap.
What I would do if I was you is play around with the filters. I just had an attempt at this and with 5-10 mins work I beleive it looks quite good.
I atttached a small sample. If you want I can tell you the 5-6 steps I went through. Please don't laugh if it looks bad. I just thought I'd give it a 5 minute go.
hey how'd you do that?
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real chalk thingy?
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though you can use a different style in brushes and freely write your text. try to look for a closer style in the brush, try scrollling down i know its there
that looks good actually kolatracks.. can you give steps?
Like I said it was a quick job and it could be done better but here's the steps anyway.
Steps 1 to 3 deal with making a slightly more realistitic blackboard background. You can skip them if you just want a plain black background.
Here they are:
Step 1:
Make an image (whatever size) and then fill it with #333333
Step 2:
Add noise (Filter > Noise > Add Noise) with the following settings
Amount: 1%
Distribution: gaussain
monochromatic
Step 3:
goto Filter > Artistic > Smudge Stick and choose the following settings
Stroke Length: 10
Higlight Area: 0
Intensity: 0
Step 4:
Type the text in white.
I suggest the chalk font at the second link Juguard suggested or Bold Verdana like I did in the example.
Step 5:
Rasterize the text layer. And then CTRL + Left Mouse on it to load selectection.
Then Select Black as the foreground colour and White as the background colour.
Step 6 (Final):
goto Filter > Sketch > Chalk And Charcoal and choose the following settings
Charcoal Area: 6
Chalk Area: 18
Stroke Pressure: 0
Repeat step 6 again (CTRL + F)
Step 7 (Optional):
If it's a large image you might want to add noise again like in step 2 but with the following settings
Amount: 5-7% (use what works best for you)
Distribution: gaussain
monochromatic
That's it. But play around a bit and I'm sure you could make it better.
Also just so you know the image made with these steps saves smaller as a JPG than as a GIF.
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that one is free
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