Custom Unique Text
With this tutorial I am going to show you how you can create custom unique text from the fonts you already have installed at your computer. This technique is very useful especially for the design of logos or signatures.
Start by creating a new document any size. Select the Horizontal Type Tool and type your text. For this tutorial I have simply typed “text”.
Now right click on your text and select “Convert to Shape”
Now we can modify our text to whatever we like. In order to give an example for this tutorial I am simply going to modify the “X”.
I selected the “Delete Anchor Point” tool 
and I deleted the anchor points that you can see in the next picture.
and here is my result.
Then I picked the “Direct Selection” tool and I just dragged two of the anchor points et voila.
Of course this is just a simple example, in this case I have just modified one letter of my word, however I could have modified more or even all of them. In addition to that the editing possibilities are endless. If you want you can add anchor points to different locations, modify the bezier curves etc in order to create your unique text.
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December 7th, 2005 at 1:14 am
cool its like samurai x text!!!
December 7th, 2005 at 2:02 am
nice i didnt know that.
thx for it
December 7th, 2005 at 7:53 am
nice
December 7th, 2005 at 9:34 am
Good idea :p
December 7th, 2005 at 11:25 am
Awesome, really good idea!!!
you are a genius!!
December 9th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
i have photoshop cs and i cant do this
please go more into depth, im new, but not THAT new
December 10th, 2005 at 12:23 pm
Really simple idea yet a powerful style is added … Ace tutorial m8
December 10th, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Good job! Learned something new.
December 18th, 2005 at 5:13 pm
Definitely learnt something and it adds a bit of etc spice to your sigs
January 3rd, 2006 at 6:31 pm
The “Convert to Shape” button isnt on the menu when i right click…
January 4th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
You should click on “Commit any current edits” button at the right side of the horizontal menu. (It is a checkmark button)
Alternatively, write your text, select the background layer, select your text layer again and the right click on th text.
January 14th, 2006 at 3:07 pm
Hmm… you could probably recreate the Metallica logo text with this tutorial. Good job.
March 24th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Like it!
April 14th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
When I delete the anchor points, it doesn’t look like what you had…
April 14th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Oh, whoops, never mind, I was using Times New Roman font.
May 26th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Really cool. Should be useful to create logos
August 9th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I don’t understand how can I get to this in adobe photoshop 6?
November 21st, 2006 at 6:18 am
nice one.
like samurai X