Scribbled Text

1. Open up a document. Mine is 500X500 but it can be whatever size you want.

2. Fill your canvas using the paint bucket fill tool with a colour of your choice. You can leave it blank if you want but I’m going to use a colour. 

3. Use your text tool to write something in a font choice. Make the text any colour you want. Chose this colour wisely because this is going to be your base colour. 

I wrote “tutorial” in the font “spyroclassic” on 120pt in the colour #aeaeae.

4. Go the the little box with the T on your text layer in your layers roster. Hold down control (ctrl) on your key board. This will select the text. It looks like there’s a bunch of ants marching along the edges on your text. (my media arts teacher made that reference, not me.)

5. Create a new raster layer and click on your brush tool. Set the size to 1 and the hardness to 100%. Pick a random colour and start scribbling all over your text. Make sure your text is still selected.

It’ll look something like this.

6. Pick another colour and do the same thing. Repeat it with as many colours as you want.

7. With your text still selected, create another new layer. Set your colour you’re working with to black and go to filter > render > clouds. Set this layer to overlay with the opacity at 100%.

8. Duplicate that layer and set it to multiply with the opacity at 25%. You can adjust the opacity to your desire but 25% is what I have it on, it varies with different text and such.

9. Deselect everything and you’re done!

here’s mine.