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sw85253731
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January 2, 2019
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Emulating text bleed & opaqueness

  • January 2, 2019
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Hi there, I'm attempting to emulate text from an ol' timey scroll (see picture below). While I've used the ripple and motion blur tools to make it look more realistic it's still lacking that background wavy bleed through effect as seen in the picture. Does anybody know a good way to go about this?

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SJRiegel
Legend
January 2, 2019

I see.

In that case, I would create a gradient or gradient mesh in black and white with the ripples that you want on the text, and then use Opacity Mask to apply it to the text.

Kind of like this, but with a more subtle gradient.

davescm
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davescmCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 2, 2019

Hi

You could try a pattern overlay in the layer sytles (right click and choose  blending options)

Dave

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SJRiegel
Legend
January 2, 2019

--background wavy bleed through effect

Can you define what effect you are referring to?

I don't see an effect -- it just looks like a low-res jpg that has been re-saved too many times, and now has extreme artifacts.

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sw85253731Author
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January 2, 2019

In hindsight that wasn't the best photo to use. I've attached another below. The effect I'm referring to is the rippled effect, where you can see the opaqueness of the text changes and let's the background color bleed through slightly.

jane-e
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jane-eCommunity Expert
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January 2, 2019

sw85253731  wrote

May I ask where you got this sample?

Many years ago I did a lot of calligraphy, and this looks like it was hand lettered. You rarely if ever see that in electronic typefaces. At one time in my life I could have reproduced this with a pen and ink.

The “ripple” looks — to me — like it was picked up from the paper itself, probably handmade paper. I’ve made paper before, too, and it is often made with cloth so it has fibers in it, and that’s what it looks like I’m seeing. But I don’t see the paper outside of the letters, so that part is odd, unless the letters were selected and copied into a new document.

To recreate it and make it look authentic, I think it needs a pattern of sorts to simulate the cloth fibers of hand-made paper, imho.

And now I hand it back to Trevor.Dennis​, davescm​, and SJRiegel​ for the how-to’s.

~ Jane

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