Scribbled Text in Photoshop Tutorial

June 29, 2008 · Print This Article

This Scribbled Text in Photoshop Tutorial will simply explain how to make scribbly looking text.

Sometimes you want to alter your text but it doesn’t quite look right - I’ve found lots of ways to alter the text so it looks completely different. In this tutorial I’ll explain how to alter your settings to get the below look - this type of text is great on lots of graphics, we tend to use these types a lot.

Once you know how to alter your settings you’ll be able to do all sorts of things with different fonts etc.

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Scribbled Text in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps

First of all, download this font, Pea Steph (but for some reason when you download it, it shows as "Steph Pea" in Photoshop for me, but to make things complicated it shows as "Pea Steph"… so I suggest checking both.

Now open Photoshop, and then make a new canvas: -> File -> New pick something like 350 x 150 (pixels)

Select your font tool - to get it, press T on your keyboard. Then go -> Window -> Character (’Window’ is alone the top next to File, Edit, Image etc - if by any chance the ‘character’ option has a tick next to it, don’t click it!)

Now go to your character options and change them so they match mine. Here is mine.

Now, making sure you’re still using the text tool (to check, press T again) click on the canvas and start to write something. Because I didn’t know what to write, I found a quote by E.E Cummings which you can use as a test - did move it around a bit so it looked more pretty rather than how it reads.

"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best,
night and day, to make you like everybody else -
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight -
and never stop fighting."

Hopefully you should now have exactly what I have in the above image - but you won’t have a purple glow - to do that you need to read this tutorial on "Outer Glow"

You’re pretty much done! If you have any questions regarding this Scribbled Text in Photoshop Tutorial then just drop me a line in the below comment box. I’ll happily reply.