Design a Grunge-Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

Design a Grunge-Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

Posted on February 27th, 2009 under Abstracts,Text Effects

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to make a Grungy-Style Abstract Typography using rusted metal texture in Photoshop. The inspiration of this tutorial came from a grungy metal image I came across on stockvault.net and thought I could have a play with it :)

Together we will explore some layer blending techniques, variuos filter effects, and an interesting method of making the text look 3D. Have a go!

Here is a preview of the final image: (click to enlarge)

grungy poster typo final 2 500x690 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

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OK let’s get started!

Step 1

Download a copy of this grungy image from stockvault.net and load it into Photoshop. We will use it as the background of this poster.

Rotate the canvas by 90 degree CW by going into Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 degree CW:

1 rotate canvas 463x700 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

We can add a bit of noise on the background image and make it look more grungy. To do this, duplicate the background layer and go to Filter > Noise > Dust & Scratches and apply the following settings:

1 dust and scratch Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

Change the layer blending option to “Overlay” and you will have the following effect:

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Step 2

Duplicate the “Background copy” layer once, go to Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen and apply the following settings:

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Keep the layer blending mode as “overlay” and you will have the following effect:

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Step 3

Duplicate the “Background copy 2″ layer once and go to Filter > Stylize > Glowing edge and apply the following settings:

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Keep the layer blending option as “overlay” and you will see the following effect:

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Then hit Ctrl + Shift + Alt + B and bring up the Black and White adjustment Tool, apply the following settings:

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And you will have the following effect:

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Step 4

Duplicate the “Background Copy 3″ layer once, change the blending option of the duplicated layer to “Screen” and you have the following effect:

4 blend 500x692 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

To create a bit of colour depth, we apply the Black and White adjustments to this layer (Ctrl + Alt + Shift + B) with the following settings:

4 bw1 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

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Step 5

Still on the previous layer, grab the Eraser Tool with a big soft round brush, erase the area where covering the yellow/golden part:

5 erase 500x649 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

Change the layer blending option to “Color” and you will have the following effect:

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Go back to the “Background copy 3″ layer, again use the Eraser Tool with a big soft brush to erase the centre portion of the image:

5 erase 2 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

Step 6

Now let’s add some text onto the background texture. Download a copy of this font and type some text onto the canvas:

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When you’re happy with the text, rasterize it and change its layer blending mode to “Hard Light”.  Apply the following layer blending options:

Drop Shadow:

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Bevel and Emboss:

6 bevel 500x350 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

Texture

6 texture 500x350 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

Gradient Overlay:

6 gradient 500x350 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

And you will have the following effect:

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Duplicate the text layer 7-8 times, keep the blending mode of each layer as “hard light”, and you will have a deeper text effect as a result:

6 effect 2 500x505 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

Merge those duplicated layers together and name the merge layer as “Text”.

Step 7

Change the blend mode of the text layer to “Hard light”, duplicate it once again and apply the following Gaussian Blur filter on the duplicated layer:

7 gau blur Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

After applying the Blur filter, duplicate this layer once more. On the duplicated layer, add a White colour overlay blending option as shown below:

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Then on this layer, use the Eraser Tool to gently eraser some part of the text, by doing so you can create a uneven lighting effect and make the text look 3D:

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Step 8

To a bit of extra flavor to the image, we can add a new layer called “cloud” in between the text and the background texture layer, use the Lasso Tool with 40px feather to make a selection around the text and render some cloud inside:

8 cloud1 500x500 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

To make the cloud look a bit uneven, we can simply duplicate the existing cloud layer once and set the blending mode of the duplicated layer to “hard light”.

Here is the effect so far:

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Ok that’s it for this tutorial! You can of course add some of your own texture or filter effect and see what the end results are!

Here is my final result for this tutorial: (I add a bit of radial blur, and adjusted the colour balance a bit)

grungy poster typo final 2 500x690 Design a Grunge Style Abstract Typography with Rusted Metal Texture in Photoshop

Hope you enjoy this tutorial, drop me a comment if you have any question, I will try my best to help you out.

Cheers and have a nice day!

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  • Stewart

    I”m a fan of your work right now, good job on this tutorial. Can I ask you how you got the final image to look like that; with radial and color balance? Do i make a new layer or no? plz help :)

  • Stewart

    Are you sure the step 4 for the black and white adjustment is correct mine look a little darker, I think the yellow needs to be like 70?

  • hieronymus

    Again another amazing tutorial to get some insperation for some new art work. Cheers dude…

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  • Escapade

    Heya. I’m really a fan of you and probably read most of your tuts, but I have a question… how much do you change the color to get it green and kinda spooky like that? Cheers.

  • Escapade

    Wait, think I fixed it.. would a new layer, with a radial gradient of dark green/blue, then overlay on the layer style work?

  • admin

    yeah, another method is to make a duplicate of the background layer, then use the colour balance adjustments on the duplicated layer, give it a dark blue/yellow adjustments, and change the blending mode to overlay.

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    When adding the clouds how did you get the blacks. The clouds only come in as white and wash the whole background out.

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    i have a question though which pattern do you use with the texture elements?(im a newbie in PS)

    keep up the good work!

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    forget the question i already figured it out LOL:P

    Thankss Again

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    @Piercezilla
    check your foreground/background color
    make the forground dark grey and background color black or something just fool around with it till you get something you like;)

    greetz

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    The grungy feel is sick! It looks really good in the final design. I’ve been trying to design a textual logo somewhat like this for myself for a project I’m working on and it did not come out as what I hope it would! I didn’t manage to get it looking right like yours did. In the end, I decided to use the professional services of an online logo design site instead (http://www.logodesignstation.com) and got the logo I wanted at an affordable price and fast too, within24 hours. I did provide this link for reference and inspiration to my designer as I liked how yours look. I’m not going to design a logo without any professional help anytime soon although it’s fun and stress-relieving. Haha. Thanks for posting this, by the way.

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    great looking grunge. I did a bunch of vector textures a while back for a t-shirt company.

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    great job but i cant understand

    before step 5 the last adjustments of the black and white
    i cant find a preset of a none

    help plz

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    what is the texture u add at the text?

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    I love it <3

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