Creative Effects Challenge No. 218 - Word Cloud Art
Jan 6, 2024 0:48:01 GMT
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Post by tonyw on Jan 6, 2024 0:48:01 GMT
I got the idea for this challenge from a post by Lillias on How to Create Word Art and on further investigation a Blue Lightning video .
Although there are several sites for incorporating Word Clouds into images the wordart.com one does seem to be particularly good and it's free to use with no registration required. The BlueLightning video gives a very good summary of how to take an image and add a word cloud to it using wordart.com.
You can start with any image editing program and basically select a shape that you want to fill with words, import it into wordart.com, add the words, select the font, colour and a bunch of other options and then download back into your editing program and carry on from there. The only thing to watch is that the free image size is smallish so downsize your image to start (I used 1000 pixels maximum).
The Blue Lightning video is a bit fuzzy on getting the image into wordart.com and does a convert to smart object to a layer at this step. I don't quite understand this and there is no need for it - just save the image to a jpg or png file and import that as a shape into wordart.com.
As for the words you can create a list of your own or import a poem, a speech or anything else that comes to mind. If you don't like some words you can remove them or adjust their importance/size.
Here are a couple of examples. For the first one I created the black on white text in PSE and imported that as a shape in wordart.com - adding the words from Auld Lang Syne. Back in PSE added a background pattern and layer styles to the text. Second was a face from Unsplash and a poem by Dylan Thomas.
Lots of possibilities - I'll leave it up to you to find other creative approaches and above all have some fun doing it!
Tony
Although there are several sites for incorporating Word Clouds into images the wordart.com one does seem to be particularly good and it's free to use with no registration required. The BlueLightning video gives a very good summary of how to take an image and add a word cloud to it using wordart.com.
You can start with any image editing program and basically select a shape that you want to fill with words, import it into wordart.com, add the words, select the font, colour and a bunch of other options and then download back into your editing program and carry on from there. The only thing to watch is that the free image size is smallish so downsize your image to start (I used 1000 pixels maximum).
The Blue Lightning video is a bit fuzzy on getting the image into wordart.com and does a convert to smart object to a layer at this step. I don't quite understand this and there is no need for it - just save the image to a jpg or png file and import that as a shape into wordart.com.
As for the words you can create a list of your own or import a poem, a speech or anything else that comes to mind. If you don't like some words you can remove them or adjust their importance/size.
Here are a couple of examples. For the first one I created the black on white text in PSE and imported that as a shape in wordart.com - adding the words from Auld Lang Syne. Back in PSE added a background pattern and layer styles to the text. Second was a face from Unsplash and a poem by Dylan Thomas.
Lots of possibilities - I'll leave it up to you to find other creative approaches and above all have some fun doing it!
Tony
