From a distance, this image looks like any other blackand-white portrait, but a closer look reveals a chaotic jumble of sentences that appear to rise and fall, matching the face’s contours. It looks complex, but the effect is surprisingly easy to pull off.
What’s more, besides the striking visuals, it also lets you run with a theme depending on your choice of words – we pasted in a therapythemed passage, but you can use whatever you fancy.
The most effective Photoshop tool for your text-based portrait is the Displace Filter. This shifts pixels one way or another to give the illusion of depth, based on a source image.
If you want to use your own shot for this effect, ideally choose one with a simple dark backdrop so that the…
