Ransom Note Effect

[macmonkey]

Hey everyone,

I'm working on a logo and had a cool idea to incorporate a "ransom note" effect on part of it. My attempts so far have been just ok. I was wondering if anyone had seen any inspiring tutorials on how to achieve this. If so I would really appreciate a link.

To get an idea of the lettering here is a photo of the effect I'm going for:

http://www.barr94.freeserve.co.uk/ransom note.jpg

it's basically OLD SCHOOL cut & paste

 

[Welles]

Welcome to the forums macmonkey.

That's pretty simple once you figure out the steps, but it will be a bit laborious.

Open a new blank document with a white background.

Activate the Text tool and choose a font and size for your first letter and type it.

Make a new layer under the letter and use the polygonal lasso tool to make a roughly rectangular outline around the letter.

Choose a background color and fill in your selection in the new layer.

Merge the text and rectangle layers you just made.

Use Command T to transform it and rotate it a bit.

If you want add a layer style, perhaps a bit of drop shadow or a tiny bit of texture.

Then just repeat those steps until you've created all your letters with different fonts, sizes and backgrounds.

Move 'em into place using the stacking order to get your overlaps right and there you go.

 

[lasa]

I'd cut and paste from downloaded pictures...an example would be to cut from a newspaper site..

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...1&prev=/images?q=newspaper&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=

There are also alot of RAMSOM font but the might be a little fake looking.

Lasa

 

[macmonkey]

Welcome to the forums macmonkey.

That's pretty simple once you figure out the steps, but it will be a bit laborious.

Open a new blank document with a white background.

Activate the Text tool and choose a font and size for your first letter and type it.

Make a new layer under the letter and use the polygonal lasso tool to make a roughly rectangular outline around the letter.

Choose a background color and fill in your selection in the new layer.

Merge the text and rectangle layers you just made.

Use Command T to transform it and rotate it a bit.

If you want add a layer style, perhaps a bit of drop shadow or a tiny bit of texture.

Then just repeat those steps until you've created all your letters with different fonts, sizes and backgrounds.

Move 'em into place using the stacking order to get your overlaps right and there you go.

Thanks for the tips... I've already done this... I'm a fairly competent photoshoper as I do it for a living... and I've done a few versions of this that may look good to most people but it's still just not "right"...

I'd considered cutting out from scanned photos but ultimately I'm going to have to do a vector version of this logo so I'm trying to figure out how to do it right from scratch.

I guess it's just one of those things I'll have to work with 'til I get it right.

I'll post my outcome and possibly a small tutorial for future interests.

thanks