Experimenting with Typography

Firstly I used Microsoft Powerpoint and I chose a simple looking font (Baskerville Old Face) I then shadowed the text and made the font a bright white against a black background.

The programme I use to edit is Pixlr. I zoomed into the main text and used the brush tool to add various cracks which add to the typical conventions of horror. I lowered the contrast slightly to make the shadow more translucent and ghost-like. I finished off with the a blood coloured splatter effect which I then used the burn tool to darken with. This made the 'blood' look slightly more realistic.

I used the front Goudy Old Style and made it red with a white glow. I kept the fonts as minimal as possible to achieve maximum effects after they were edited.

I added cracks and blurred them out to make them look less harsh. I like the way the dark cracks blend into the dark background. I lowered the brightness to give a darker/eerie shade of red and a more dull white. Overall the techniques worked quite effectively.

Here I used the font Didot and I used the sharp contrast of white against black. I also mirrored the text. I like the effect of the mirror as it fits in with the conventions of horror.

I used the brush tool to add some 'crushed paper' effects and sporadically applied it to the edges. I changed the cracks to a lower opacity and faintly added them to the background for a more subtle touch. I used the burn tool to sharpen some of the letters.

The font used was Perpetua Titling MT Light and I chose this one because of the all caps.  I gave the black letters a red glow against a white background.

This was my favourite result because it looks quite realistic. I heightened the contrast and used the splatter and cracking effects  to create a horror style typography. I erased any markings that went outside of the text to create a sharp contrast between the text and the background.

The most common tools that I used were paintbrush, blur and crop. Filters such as Noise and Gaussian Blur were also used. Overall I am happy with my results and I am more confident with using editing programmes such as Pixlr.