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Calligraphy Fonts for Photoshop Users

10 Elegant Calligraphy Fonts for Photoshop Users. Calligraphy itself is an exquisite art that not everybody can master. Fortunately, we live in an era when calligraphic fonts are digitally available. Now this is a collection of some of the prettiest and most excellent calligraphy fonts that we have discovered on the web. In order to make use of them, you must follow the link provided and download the fonts onto your own PC. Chopin Script Font  Coneria Script font Aerolite Font Calligraphy Unicase font Brock Font Respective font Mardian Font Champignon Font Ink in the Meat Font Shit Happens Font Voila.

Calligraphy with Photoshop and Illustrator

Calligraphy is a Visual Type Art which in former time,  it can be done only on traditional method,  using pen, brush, or swan feather.  But now, you can easily make calligraphy on digital method.  In this tutorial,  I want to share step by step how to make Digital Calligraphy with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.  See the finished version:  " Rise and Shine ".  I hope this tutorial will be useful. *Click on the image to enlarge. 1.  Make the sketch, u can scan from your sketch book, or make the sketch in Photoshop. And to shorten the work time I make the sketch in Photoshop. Just draw a rough sketch, no detail needed. 2.  Open your sketch in Adobe Illustrator,  choose " Paint Brush Tool " or press " B ".  Open the brush palette ( Window > Brushes ) or press "F5 ",  double click on "2 pt. Oval " brush to open the brush option, then use this setting: Angle =  45°   -  Fixed Ro...

Calligraphy Text Effect in Photoshop

  Last week I posted some articles about typography and received quite a few emails asking me to create a tutorial on text effects. So I decided to play a bit with Photoshop to create a nice sort of 3D effect using a calligraphy font and a lot of Layer Styles. The effect is really simple and we will take a look at how to create patterns and light effects with Blend Modes. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document, I used 1920x1200 pixels for the Size . Then fill the background with a very dark color #1f1e1e. Step 2 With the Background layer selected go to Layer>Layer Style>Gradient Overlay . Choose grey (# 707070 ) and white for the colors. Change the Blend Mode to Multiply and the Opacity to 60% . The Style will be Radial . Make sure that the white is in the center. What will happen is that as we're using multiply the edges of the image will be darker. I'm applying this gradient via layer styles because I want to add a filter to the...