You can use PSD Fonts Letters inside your filters NOW ! without FF 4.0

All these can ALSO be used WITHOUT FILTER EDITOR in any filter that have color control component with the "Allowed images" available.

You just go to the settings tab and choose your fonts to use in the filter, as you can see in this screenshot

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT YOU CAN´T SAVE PNG 24 WITH TRANSPARENCY DIRECTLY IN PHOTOSHOP

To be able to save PNG 24 with Transparency included you MUST use the Script "Export Layers to files" available in the "file" menu

For this to work right you must have a transparent background, and them compose your words, or standalone letters in layers, and then when ready and finished, you have to use the Script "Export Layers to files" to load the results.

You can decide then where to export the files and must select PNG 24 with transparency

You decide if you want that Photoshop trims the final image result to cut unused space and keep the image result as tight as possible.

Also the trim is good to save words separately, I have made the "Filter Forge" words in the same fle with 2 layers, but when I choose to active "trim" the export layers script will svae each layer separately and cut the unwanted and wasted space to the minimum.

YOU MUST HAVE AT LEAST 2 LAYERS FOR the Script "Export Layers to files" to work

If you have just one layer, then you can add any dummy false layer to fool the script

See the screenshot below

I said before that the PSD Fonts need to have transparency, well this is true usually, BUT not ALWAYS, as there are also many other PSD fonts that are full complete images without any transparency

For example this one here below

Mechanical Alphabet



AND this is also available as a vector file, and there are other PSD fonts that are made as Vector files, so you can enlarge them as much as you want and then after convert them back to JPG or PNG.

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And there is more complex PSD fonts that would never be possible to make in any other way as this one below

Alphabet in Fire



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ALso there are MANY fonts that are made with 3D rendering software that are available as PSD, for example this one below is just one of the many more available.

Ivy Alphabet + Numbers



And this other one too

3D Macabre Alphabet/Numbers



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AND this pencils tied toghether that seems to be in 3D

Pencil Alphabet





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FRIED EGG PSD FONT FOR USE WITH FRIED EGG FILTER BY CRAPADILLA
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Eggs Alphabet




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BIGGEST CREATIVE INNOVATIVE AND HIGH QUALITY PSD FONTS IS FR OM WWW.HANDMADEFONT.COM



You can see until the huge collection of 352 different FONTS created by this great design group.

Although the problem is that they are very expensive

http://www.handmadefont.com/type44.php

PLEASE SEE HERE 80 PHOTOS WITH WORDS ALREADY MADE WITH THESE FONTS !!!

PLEASE SEE IN THIS LINK HERE 80 PHOTOS WITH WORDS ALREADY MADE WITH THESE FONTS !!!




HERE IS A INTERESTING LINK WITH PHOTOS ON HOW THEY MAKE THE FONTS AND SOME EXAMPLES OF WORDS

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Handmade-font/1727883



As said here above, I will be back with more examples and other websites where you can get this lovely and beautiful fonts.

Rod_D Thanks very much for the links, I will see them.

It is really very interesting, and I did not know that you can WRITE text using Photofonts !!!!!

If you want MORE examples of PSD Fonts or PNG´s Fonts please look at this Google Images link

Or if this link does not work search in google images for "stock photo alphabet"





This a great idea to make an alphabet made of bolts

GREAT Idea to make this complex collage with LOTS of food making the shape of letters !!!
Please, See all of them in this Google Images link

Or if this link does not work search in google images for "stock photo alphabet of health"



DO not miss to see this beautiful and great looking FIRE ALPHABET Letters In this Google Images Link

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SKybase wrote: Actually I'm designing a set of filters that'll process flat images to produce neat little effects. So like you can type something out in Photoshop, rasterize it, then apply the effect and it'll change the fonts to something like you see above. Fun stuff!

WOW! This a very good idea and could be very interesting and useful ! Thanks very much for thinking about this and making filters that could do this kind of work. Great news.

I can create a animated GIH or Gimp Image Hose brush that can use a path (a shape of a letter), and animate a brush along a path.
This is how i created the GrassyVine font.
First i typed some text - then i cleared the fill - then i made a PATH from the selection.
This gave me a path to use brush along path.After that i just had to shrink (contract) the selection and keep running the brush along the selection.
Soon it was filled in.

I could easily create a nuts and bolts GIH animated brush to do this also.
In fact i think a Python script for Gimp can be written to do this for me.I will have to look into that.

I never used Coral Painter before so i do not know if it even has a paths tool.
Gimp has a unique set of path tools.One of which is stroke path with a paintbrush.
This includes animated brushes. I am working on a new nuts and bolts image hose now.

Howler 7.1 is Dog Waffles new baby.
It has a brush called Orbicles.3-D particles floating (actually animated), around the brush tip.Very cool. I may give that a try also.

I received word from Hemera at BMSoftware about Photo Objects.They are sending me a package (cost was 69.05 USD). It contains 25 thousand textures with the PhotoFont Maker included.They have another one they call Big Box of Art which contains 150 thousand images/textures.I didn't buy that one they wanted 89 for it.
I will let you know how it works when the cd's arrive.Sadly it comes only by snail mail and no download link so i will have to wait.

Cool stuff guys!
By reading this thread it thrilled myself and I created one creative filter for FF that you get to do the whole alphabet at once or just a letter, it is up to you.
See an example:

That looks cool, Lucato
Did you upload the filter to the library?

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Lucato: By reading this thread it thrilled myself and I created one creative filter for FF that you get to do the whole alphabet at once or just a letter, it is up to you.

Great, cool and nice idea!!! Well done.

Like the examples you have done.

Does it work with external alphabet masks or the alphabet is made inside FF?

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Lucato: Sure, I'll share with FF community

Thanks very much for sharing this with the FF community

Will wait to see HOW you have done this and how it works.

Hello Lucato, thanks for your answer and explaining it in more detail, BUT I am sorry that I do not see what is, or can be different from the filter of Shape of Things by CFandM that makes the same that you are describing and in the same way to use the external fonts or alphabet.

I think I may be missing something or you have done it in another way, I will see how this is made when it is available in the FF Library

The las post was In 27 August 2012 when it was expected that Filter Forge 4.0 was going to possibly release VECTOR SUPPORT and therefore also support for Fonts and letters, and it was not included

Now 3 years exactly, as today is August 27 2015 ( at least in Europe time) and we are with beta FF 5.0 and there is still NO news about vector support on FF

Would it be possible to have vector support on FF 5.0?

Anyway, in his hread I have shown of alternative way to use fonts amd letters inside FF and also in my alphabet filter (thanks to great and amazing alphabet done by ThreeDee)

Thanks GMM for the news, so I will not be waiting for vectors again in 5.0

i will waiting instead for any new thing for beta 3

There are many more PSD fonts that are very original, cool, awesome and interesting, for example in this website with 535 fonts carefully hand made, innovative and creative

awesome and amazing Hand Made Fonts in PSD or TIFF format

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Crapadilla wrote: Quote GMM wrote: Though you can anticipate for something else in the beta stage 3 due in September. *** Looks at calendar ***

YES!! Is true GMM said in September and we are now near November and there still no news about Beta 3

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Rod_D wrote: I believe stage 3 of Filter Forge 5 Beta will be released soon

I believe in it too