Hey!
It's been a while.
I was editing a logo for a template i'm using and I wanted to make the text match the grunged, rusty look of the rest of the template, of which you can see here:
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But of course, if you've made logos before, you know matching text to the rest of the graphic is VERY hard sometimes.
So I played around till I got this type of text.
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Knowledge Needed:
-The Layers Dialogue
-Selections
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First of all, download a good, grungy font. I like
Base-2 from DaFont, but it's your choice. In the screenshots, i'll be using the cliche army font.
- Get out the image that you'll be using. In my case, it's this:
- Next, add the text you want. Make sure your font is big and thick, otherwise this wont work.
- Now right click on your font layer and click 'Alpha to Selection'.
- Select the gradient tool.
- Go to the gradient tool options and click on the button that lets you choose your gradient. Choose brushed aluminum.
- Now we get to the fun part. Go back to the image and select your text layer. It should still have an alpha to selection around it.
- Drag the gradient from the top to the bottom of the LAYER ITSELF. Do not start from the top of the image, start from the top of the layer boundary.
- You should now have something like this:
- Moving on, click on your paintbrush tool. Set your foreground color to #bd2f2f.
- Make a new layer.
- Select the "19 circle" out of your brushes in the paintbrush tool's options.
- Start putting random lines and dots on your new layer, inside and around where the text is.
- You should have something like this:
- Go into the layers dialogue. Select your text layer, and press alpha to selection again.
- Now, in the image window, go to selection>>invert.
- Click edit>>clear.
- You should have something like this:
- Don't worry, we're not done yet!
- Next, make a new layer. Go to the image window and select filter>>render>>clouds>>plasma.
- Go to layer>>colors>>desaturate.
- You should have something like this:
- After that, right click on the dot layer and select alpha to selection. Go to select>>invert again.
- Select the layer with the plasma on it. Go to edit>>clear.
- You should now have your image, with text. The text'll have grey, rusty spots with red auras. Check it out:
And you're done!
Hope you liked it.
Choco
