A Work in Progress: Don't Fear The Reaper



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Don't Fear The Reaper
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step 1 of 8

First loaded the image in illustrator and enlarged the image... I used illustrator, coz the text works better in illustrator although using the pen tool here is such a drag...

Creation of Don't Fear The Reaper: Step 1

step 2 of 8

Now with the pen tool, created a path( remember to make stroke and fill to transparent) and clicked at the beginning of the path with the text tool...

Creation of Don't Fear The Reaper: Step 2

step 3 of 8

Now any text you type will follow the path...

Creation of Don't Fear The Reaper: Step 3

step 4 of 8

Now in this way I created text all over reap's face and body...

I used a basic font here "Arial"...

Creation of Don't Fear The Reaper: Step 4

step 5 of 8

Now exported as a jpg... And opened it in ps... I now realized should have saved it as png so I would have the transparency...

But one can also ctrl( or command) select the blue channel... then inverse the selection and fill with black in a new layer( not in the channels)...

Creation of Don't Fear The Reaper: Step 5

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There is it... Now crtl selecting the whole black line layer... I created the texts in white, red, green and blue...

Creation of Don't Fear The Reaper: Step 6

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Now hiding all the colors except white and red... white on bottom and red on top, I masked red layer to hide...

Now with a white brush I made some of the red visible... Didn't follow any pattern, just went wild...

Creation of Don't Fear The Reaper: Step 7

step 8 of 8

Now doing the same thing to green and blue layer...

I get this...

Creation of Don't Fear The Reaper: Step 8

Final result

Creation of Don't Fear The Reaper: Final Result

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