TEXT Effects

Although my main interest in Filter Forge is for photoart I am also interested in effects on text. Looks like Filter Forge has many possibilities here!

Text Effects have many uses... ad work, website work, signs and greeting cards are just a few uses I can think of. I put together an image to test effects on text and would love to see what your filters can do but please only post effects where the text is still readable. (what good is it if you can't read it?)

Sandpaper by Photoman

Metals by Lucato
although the smaller text is unreadable the effect on the large is fantastic!

If you're using Photoshop, I would really recommend you use 16-bit mode when working with text -- FF should work much better with 16-bit antialiased text. Also don't forget about the power of the Selection component along with Photoshop Type Mask tool

Donna,
Here is one that seems to work well with text, Tin Can.

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/618.html

Interesting, I did not even think about this aspect of FF. I thought I would try something a little different but not to crazy. I tried Neon Sidewalk Chalk http://www.filterforge.com/filters/829.html

here's another from a filter i quit working on but may take back up since seeing the effect on this text.

craig

Sorry Sherry,
The queen corrected me on my error. Hope you like the text effects anyway.

Here is second example.

Wow! some cool effects!

photoman, your results with Tin Can and Metals are nice and clear! and the first one in your second example has such a classy look to it.
CFandM, your Sidewalk Chalk works great! I gotta play more with this one. colors are versitile too.
Craig, what a interesting tiled look! which filter did you use on it? hmm could use that one for making webpage backgrounds... ! Look forward to seeing your new Text Offset, drop shadows always come in handy!
Donna, lol you keep your crown you earned it!

photoman, those are cool. the bubble-wrap one particularly stands out.

this is a whole new area for FF. we've been hollering for fonts in FF but with enough effects like these we may not need them.

sherry, ummm, i dont really remember at the moment what filter that's from. it shld say on the picture name. as for the filter i made, it may not be a true drop shadow; i basically used the offset component on one leg and some other simple effects on another and then used a blend mode to bring them together to get the shadow look. i hate to keep harping on this but this is another filter where more control components would be a big help. i'd rather have one filter that did a hundred things than 10 filters that did 10. so i limited the effects here to just the shadowing.

here's another example of that text pic from yet another filter i havent uploaded yet. boy, i gotta start finishing these things

craig

This one is from Neon Nights.

CF and photoman, all very cool

if FF ends up not being able to use fonts within it, i think the FF guys might have another product on their hands.

craig