Photoshop: Chalk and pencil effects

Photoshop: Chalk lettering and pencil effects for your texts and graphics

Would you like to convert texts or graphics into chalk and pencil drawings? Let's get started: Open one of the 20 Smart Objects, add letters or logos, for example - Photoshop will do the rest. Use patterns to easily create matching paper and blackboard backgrounds for the pencil and chalk effects.

10 chalk and 10 pencil effects each for Photoshop
Insert your text and graphics - Photoshop creates the effects automatically
Create realistic-looking chalk lettering, for example
Transform graphics such as logos into intricate pencil drawings
Bonus: Five paper and board backgrounds that you apply as a pattern to each surface

Looks like the real thing and can be created in just a few clicks: Download the smart objects and create realistic-looking pencil and chalk effects for your Photoshop graphics.

Details

Usable with:
content: 30 Assets/Templates
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use

Examples of use

20 chalk lettering and pencil effects for Photoshop

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As a contour effect and with a hatched area: 20 chalk and pencil effects for Photoshop!

Using Photoshop Smart Objects for chalk lettering and pencil effects

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Place text and graphics in the smart object - Photoshop creates the effect automatically.

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Example: The matching board and paper backgrounds are included as samples.

To-do list on paper with a pencil look, created with Photoshop smart objects and patterns

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Example: Create realistic-looking chalk and pencil drawings.

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Photoshop tutorial: Chalk and pencil effects with smart objects

With our smart objects for realistic-looking chalk and pencil effects, you can transform your texts and graphics into chalk and pencil drawings in just a few clicks. You can also use patterns to create the right blackboard and paper backgrounds. You can find out how to do this in Photoshop in this Photoshop tutorial.

Photoshop: Chalk and pencil effects for texts and graphics (Download)

Photoshop: Pencil effects (contour) for your texts and graphics

Place your text and graphics in a Smart Object - Photoshop transforms them into realistic-looking pencil drawings. With this download you will receive five PSD files for five different pencil effects, which sketch the contours of your objects. Ideal for lettering or a logo, for example.

Photoshop: Pencil effects (outline and area) for your texts and graphics

Place your text and graphics in a Smart Object - Photoshop transforms them into realistic-looking pencil drawings. With this download you will receive five PSD files for five different pencil effects, which trace the contours of your objects like sketches and fill the areas with hatching. Ideal for lettering or a logo, for example.

Photoshop: Chalk lettering effects (contour) for your texts and graphics

Place your text and graphics in a smart object - Photoshop transforms them into realistic-looking chalk drawings. With this download you will receive five PSD files for five different chalk effects, which trace the contours of your objects like a sketch. Ideal for lettering or a logo, for example.

Photoshop: Chalk lettering effects (outline and area) for your texts and graphics

Place your text and graphics in a Smart Object - Photoshop transforms them into realistic-looking chalk drawings. With this download you will receive five PSD files for five different chalk effects, which trace the contours of your objects like sketches and fill the surfaces with hatching. Ideal for lettering or a logo, for example.

Board and paper backgrounds as templates for Photoshop.

Panel backgrounds as patterns for Photoshop

With our smart objects for realistic-looking chalk effects, you can transform your texts and graphics into chalk drawings. You can easily create the matching blackboard backgrounds with the patterns in this download. Choose from black, gray and greenish textures and apply them to small and large areas using a pattern fill. The perfect background for your chalkboard effects!

Paper backgrounds as patterns for Photoshop

With our smart objects for realistic pencil effects, you can transform your texts and graphics into pencil drawings. You can easily create the matching paper backgrounds with the patterns in this download. Choose the paper you want from lined, squared, crumpled or finely textured paper and apply it to small and large areas using a pattern fill. The perfect background for your pencil effects!

Details of the content

Your texts and graphics as chalk and pencil drawings
Whether you want to add chalk and pencil outlines to your graphic elements or fill the areas with sketchy strokes - with the contents of this package you can easily select the desired effect and let Photoshop generate it automatically.

20 Photoshop effects for chalk lettering and pencil graphics plus 10 backgrounds

With 5 pencil and 5 chalk effects, Photoshop traces the outlines of your graphics while the surfaces appear transparent. With 5 additional pencil and 5 additional chalk effects, the surfaces of your graphics are also filled with different hatchings. In this way, you can create exactly the drawing you have in mind.

You apply the resulting sketches to the background of your choice. Of course, the whole thing looks really realistic on paper or on panel structures. The best thing is that you can create backgrounds like this on both small and large surfaces using the patterns included. To do this, create a pattern fill in Photoshop and select a pattern. Included are textures for black, gray and greenish blackboard backgrounds as well as for lined, checkered, crumpled and finely textured paper .

Smart objects in use - so easy to apply

A little tip: Before you make changes to the PSD files, it is advisable to save them under a new name when using them. This way, you can go back to the original files at any time.

To create the effects, open one of the PSD files in Photoshop and double-click on the smart object it contains. Insert your lettering or graphics into this. Close the smart object and save it - shortly afterwards, your objects will appear as pencil or chalk drawings . Incidentally, you can also insert the results into our blackboard mockups so that the chalk lettering appears on a stand in front of a restaurant, for example.