: How are these full-text images/designs made? I've seen a few of these around and I love the effect. I'm a developer, but proficient with basic Photoshop. I've played around with masking an

@Lee3735518

I would do this in a page layout program. I am doing this in InDesign but should be the same in other programs.

Create a text box that fills your background. Then fill that box with lots of text from where ever and take out the paragraph breaks.

Set the font to 5 pt. and the paragraph alignment to "Justify with last line aligned center". Set the text color as a spot color.

Decide what you want for your graphic and make that a solid vector. Copy that vector and paste into InDesign.



Select the shape, open the text wrap options (Window -> Text Wrap). Select "Wrap around object shape". Add a small distance to all sides.

Here is a very basic example shown up close.



Then export spot colors to just get the text.

Here is an example with text in the middle of the shape. This is a very basic example but you can create much more complex shapes/paths.

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