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How did they do this?


adding to that, they then probably used the text and a layer mask for the image, showing the detail in it!:)
 
I was going to say a ton of layer and clipping masks and yes the warp tool is certainly at work here. Since this image is on the web, you might get a more definitive answer by emailing the owner of the image if such an option exists. Peter if there's one thing about Ps, it's that it offers a 100 ways to do something.
 
It seems to me they have separated the image into the highlights, lowlights, and medium tones, then used each one as clipping mask for a block of text that was done on various paths, rather than warped. There is a website called "wordle" that can create such effects from a block of text.
 
I don't think any clipping masks are involved as none of the letters go outside of the boundaries of the image. I think it is pen tool, shape tool, maybe some word art, and I agree that the warp tool may be used to fine tune some edges and fit, but since there is no overlapping of letters on the face, if the warp was used at all, it must have been sparingly. On the body it is a bit more free form, like tattoo art. Interesting.

The artist may have used a couple layers of the man image. One for the translucent layer, one for the stronger contours and shadows, midtone, highlights. The letters may also have used the displace filter to give them contour and I would try a hardlight blend mode for the text, maybe with a screen or overlay layer of the text above that. There may also be liberal use of filter or layer masks to control transparency effects. And I wouldn't exclude layer fx like glows.

And then we find out it's all done with "wordie!" Or an entirely different way. Until you start into "the exhilaration, sweating heat, anticipation and climax of figuring out how someone did something," (thanks Chris) you won't have any idea. If this was done manually, it is pretty sophisticated. For that matter, even if the word art was done with a program, it's still pretty advanced graphics, not Beginner Photoshop.


 
No. The words follow the lines of the face, rather than being displaced. There are a few tutorials I have seen about a year or so ago, explaining similar effects, like the using text on paths to follow the lines of a face etc.
[video=youtube_share;DCWloOrUm9E]http://youtu.be/DCWloOrUm9E[/video]
[video=youtube_share;jt49iAL3bks]http://youtu.be/jt49iAL3bks[/video]
I can't find the one about text being used to trace the features of a face.
 
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I searched a bit and found this one. It's a written tutorial but you'll find it interesting because it shows how to get the contours without using displacement. And so simple, you'll groan! However, for this one, he uses brushes. But the face contour would still work with text. Doesn't explain all of the above image . . .

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/how-to-make-a-typographic-retro-space-face/

I like the idea of asking the creator!

PS: I see I missed the last 2 posts :mrgreen:
 
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