This image began life as a color photo, now the image is mostly made of type.

The young witch was a great photo before the transformation, but became a completely new piece when converted to type.

Applying layer masks, creating basic brushes and working with tonal range can be mundane topics – but they don’t have to be.

Bismarck State College Graphic Design and Communications students incorporated all of the techniques into type portraits – photos created primarily with type in Photoshop.

The process is time and step intensive, but the students stuck with the process and many had created very interesting pieces.