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Tutorial3: adding typography

Every digital creation lives from the details. Small but nicely arranged typography is a popular but effective way of adding detail to your piece of art.
This is how we do it:

Setting up typo layouts yourself is a waste of time. There are hundreds of thousands of resources where you can find typographic nuggets. Just surf around and see what the world wide web has to offer.
Since we already chose a warplane for the "1 pixel drag away" in tutorial 2, we decided to get some aviation-timetable layouts from lufthansa.com. Within seconds we have found brilliant material.

Once you find the stuff that fits your composition you'll need to take a screenshot of that page. Open the screenshot in photoshop and scale it down to about 30 percent of its original size. The text should be at a size too small to read, but still maintain the look of text.
Paste your typo element into your digital artwork, in our case the gradient warplane piece.

Now, that you have the typo element in your artwork, you'll need to test several layer settings, such as multiply or screen until the typo looks fine. Feel free to multiply the typo elements, the more the better, and make sure they are nicely arranged.
Since a good composition needs its contrasting elements we made up a readable headline and some cute ornaments. That's about it.

Step back now and watch your creation from a distance, doesn't it look great? You're on your way to success now ;)