Worn Grunge Text
Create the popular grunge or worn effect to any text you wish, with this simple but effective tutorial

author:
  Blake
title:
  Worn Grunge Text
date:
  Sun 9 January 2005
category:
  Font and Text Effects
credits:
 


New Document

Make a 400x400 document. You can edit>fill the background layer to Dark Grey



Add Text

Add Some Big Black Text in the Middle of your Page, taking up roughly





Edit Text Layer

Now edit>transform>rotate>90 degrees CW Your Text Layer, THEN Duplicate the Layer



Apply Filter-Wind

Clicking on one of the text layers, you'll need to add a filter>styalize>wind using these settings





Link Layers

Now While one of the text layers are selected, link the layer to the other text layer like so:





Merging Layers

Press Ctrl+e and it will merge the two layers into one. Delete the part to the left of the text, and then do a edit>transform>rotate 90 degree CCW

This should return something like this.





Change Mode to Multiply

Finaly you need to change the blending mode of the layer to "multiply" and you'll need to add an artistic>rough pastels with the following settlings:



and if you did the multiply correct on the layer, then it should look like this:



Enjoy! Tell your Friends!


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