People have been hand lettering as long as there has been writing. But in our modern age hand lettering is becoming a disappearing art form.
I had been trying to find a font for my website logo and just couldn’t find one that looked right to me. I have never been know for my penmanship skills (they are normally really bad) but when I found a page of scribbled notes I decided to try my hand at doing my own hand lettering for the site’s logo.
Here is the original scan of my notes that I stared with.
I scanned the notes into Photoshop and then moved it into Painter 11 where I moved the letters around. I lowered the original scans opacity and inked a clean copy of the writing on a new layer. After the inks were done I cloned the file and took that flattened version into Illustrator.
In illustrator I utilized the live trace function and then adjested it till it looked close to what i was looking to achieve. After that I used the brush tool and eraser until I got to image you see here.
I then exported that file back into Photoshop and used layer styles to create the image below. And voila there you have it a digital hand lettered logo.
You mention such great things here and it is always pleasure to read. Hope to hear more and learn from you.
Hello! Is it OK that I go a bit off topic? I’m trying to read your post on my iPad but it doesn’t display properly, any suggestions? Thanks! Fred
No sorry i don’t have an ipad so I’m not sure what i could suggest. others using ipads to view this site have not mentioned any problems.
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Thank you Lan =^.^=
It does seem that everybody is into this kind of stuff lately. Don’t really understand it though, but thanks for trying to explain it. Appreciate you shedding light into this matter. Keep it up
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Thank you =^.^= I use Elegant Themes bases then customize them myself.
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