Dotted text Photoshop tutorial
With this tutorial I am going to show you how you can create dotted text like this

1. First of all create a new document with a white background, pick the text tool and type your text. I just typed PSTUTORIALS

2. Then right click on the text and select “Create Work Path”

3. You can now delete the text layer since we don’t longer need it.
4. Select the brush tool and in the brushes menu use these settings.

5. Select the paths tab which is next to the Layers and Channels tab (you should now see your text as a path) and click on arrow on the upper right corner.

6. Click on the “Stroke Path” option.

7. A new window will pop up. In that window select “Brush” from the dropdown menu.

We are all done. Here is my final result (I added a drop shadow style)

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January 9th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
stroke path is disabled for me. doesnt work!
January 14th, 2006 at 5:33 am
You have to make a new layer, select it and then go to paths.
January 14th, 2006 at 8:13 am
Hi, yes you can create a new layer, however if you start with a not-transparent document and you delete the text layer (step3) there is no need to create this layer.
December 9th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
What font did you use?