[frodo5280]

Hey everyone, I'm back with another tutorial.
This time you will learn how to make a cool grunge background like this:


So, lets get started. First open up a new canvas with a white BG.
http://www.filepact.com/files/9751.bmp

Now, get out your gradient tool. Use the gradient BG to FG with the bg as black and fg as white:
http://www.filepact....987filters1.bmp

Go back to your canvas, and click around a bunch of times. try to get something like this:
http://www.filepact.com/files/7603.bmp

Now go to Filters>Distorts>Emboss and use these settings:
http://www.filepact....381filters3.bmp

Your result should be something like this:
http://www.filepact.com/files/9604.bmp

Now use the same BG-FG gradient and brush around a few more times:
http://www.filepact.com/files/8235.bmp

Duplicate the bg layer:
http://www.filepact....665filters4.bmp

With the background copy layer selected, go to filters>distorts>emboss and use these settings:
http://www.filepact....860filters5.bmp

Now go to filters>noise>pick and use these settings:
http://www.filepact....645filters6.bmp

You should get something like this:
http://www.filepact.com/files/7806.bmp

Now set this layer's layer mode to overlay.
http://www.filepact....578filters7.bmp

You should get this:
http://www.filepact.com/files/3817.bmp

One more step! Grab a good colorful gradient. I used German Flag Smooth. Now go to filters>colors>map> gradient map.
http://www.filepact.com/files/1748.bmp



You've completed Frodo's grunge background tut.
Any color gradient will work on the last step., as long as its not B&W.

I plan to make another tutorial on how to encorporate this into a signature.

My other tutorials:
Army of Two
Spawn
Godzilla
Fire Text



Other Outcomes:

By Lunar Echoes:


By Xevious46:


By ibizzle:


[img]By acebreaden: [url=http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/braeden727/SiggyStyle1.gif]http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m80/ ... Style1.gif[/url][/img]

[cytz]

how did u do the gradient thing the 1 just before the emboss

[Thegreengecko]

Shit man, that looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 you have outdone yourself, and I hope I can see some outcomes using different grads.

[frodo5280]

cytz, it says right there.

I used a white-black gradient and set it on difference, then clicked a bunch of times.
And the gradient tool is the one that looks like a little square fading from green to white.

Then click around a bunch of times, and you're ready for emboss.

Thanks the green gecko. and here's the result I made with the grunge bg:

I dunno, its okay, maybe I'll tutorialize it.

[Lunar Echoes]

Usually I suck at gradient tutorials...but I simply could NOT pass up this wicked cool tutorial :w: Thanks, Frodo!



I used the 'Horizons 2' gradient on the last step.

[Ibizzle]

Lol, looks nice, I better go try it out. :w:

[frodo5280]

Nice, lunar. I'll add it as another outcome.

[Xevious45]

Nice, useful!

:h:

[Ibizzle]

Excuse my triple post, I was encountering uploading issues, well Here is my result... I will be using it in a sig coming soon. :w:

[acebraeden]

Nice Tut, here is my result:

One Without Anything Added:


One With Something Added:

[frodo5280]

thanks ace, I added it to the results