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+--- Thread: How do I get this grainy scanned text effect? (/Thread-How-do-I-get-this-grainy-scanned-text-effect)
How do I get this grainy scanned text effect? - PSoverrated - 10-04-2023
Like in the picture attached. For the text it seems to look a bit smudged with some shadow and blur but not sure how this was done.
RE: How do I get this grainy scanned text effect? - rich2005 - 10-04-2023
You can get close using:
(1) Put the text on a white background.
(2) Apply Filters -> Noise -> RGB Noise. Play with the sliders to suit.
(3) The blur might be intended or accidental. For a small blur use Filters -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur and enter a 0.5 value manually.
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RE: How do I get this grainy scanned text effect? - Ofnuts - 10-04-2023
If you want to distort the text a bit:
- Get a selection from the text layer
- Select > Grow by 1 pixel (to compensate a slight shrinkage in the text step
- Select > Distort with Threshold: 254 and low values elsewhere
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- Add a new lawyer and bucket fill the selection
- Perhaps add a very light Gaussian blur (Size: 0.50 - 1.00), and play with contrast in the alpha channel
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