Why? Digital Calligram Experiment

"Why?" By David Adams

To create this piece, I wrote out the word "Why?" with the Horizontal Type tool on a blank canvas sized 400 pixels by 200 pixels in 24 pt Cooper Black. Having done this I Re-sized the type with the transform tool so that it took up almost all of the blank canvas and after this, Rasterized the Type.This leaves us at "Stage 1"

"Stage 1" 

At this point I needed to create a brush to make the background for the font. To do this, I created a new blank Canvas sized 400 pixels by 200 pixels and wrote out the word "why?" in size 20pt MV Boli and copy and pasted it to fill the page, leaving me with a filled canvas of just writing. I then turned it into a brush stroke my pressing edit define brush preset, leaving us with "Brush 1"

"Brush 1" 

Having done this I used the Magic Wand tool to select each individual letter, and deleted the black background using the delete key. This left me with a blank selection around my word but with no fill. I then selected my appropriate colour for my Brush and selected the brush tool, I placed my brush in a good position so that my text could be seen and Clicked once on my mouse. The piece is now finished.