Atomic Cupcake Cracked Paint Text Action
for Photoshop 7.0, Photoshop CS, or Photoshop CS2

Part I -- Installation

1. Copy the "Atomic Cupcake Text Cracked Paint.atn" file to the location of your choice.

2. Open Photoshop. Open the Actions palette (from the "windows" menu section).

3. Click on the triangle button in the top corner of the Actions pallette and click "load actions" Open the file from the location you chose in step 1.



Part II -- Using the Action

1. Type some text. The action works best with large letters (at least an half/inch tall at 300 dpi [150 pixels tall]), and may not work at all if your text is too small or too skinny.

2. Click on the name of the action in the Actions palette "AC Text Cracked Paint"

3. Press play. (The triangle button at the bottom.)


The cracked version will be created in a new document -- leaving your original paper or photo in it's original condition. 




Part III -- Ideas for Shapes

You can use the action to crack other shapes, by using a dingbat font. You can also Photoshop's custom shape tool to make cracked paint shapes. Just select the shape's layer, right click on it's name in the layers pallette, and choose rasterize. Then run the action.