Photoshop Turorial – Making a Rusty Text

In this tutorial we’ll create a rusty text effect:

1. Start by making a new file with the Width=1024 and Height= 768 and a black background.

2. Use as your colors: black for background and as your foreground #926320.

3. Go to Filter->Render->Clouds.

4. Go to Images->Adjustments->Brightness/Contrast and use the following settings: Brightness=50 and Contrast=-20.

5. Go to Filter->Brush Strokes->Sprayed Strokes and use the following settings: Stroke Lenght=3, Spray Radius=20 and Spray Direction=Horizontal.

6. Go to Filter->Noise->Add Noise and use the following settings: Amount=3, Distribution=Gaussian and check Monocromatic.

7. Go to Filter->Brush Strokes->Spatter and set: Radiu=25, Smoothness=15.

8. Go to Filter->Sharpen->Unsharp Mask and set: Amount=177, Radius=8.7, Treshold=0, do this one more time but this time set: Amount=50, Radius=40, Treshold=0.

9. Using the type tool with Stencil Std font and a size of 400 write your text, I will write AND.

10. With the text layer selected go to Layer->Layer Style->Blending Options, the Layer Style window should apear, here we’ll apply the following styles:

• Click on Drop Shadow and apply the following settings:

• Inner Shadow

• Gradient Overlay

• Stroke

11. Set the text layer blending mode to Color Dodge.

12. Duplicate the first layer (the background layer) and move it on top of the text layer, set this layer blending mode to Linear Light. Then go to Layer->Create Clipping Mask or press Ctrl+Alt+G.

13. Make a new empty layer and move it on top of all layers. Then using Gradient Tool with the default gradient (black to white) and with the Radial Gradient option and Reverse checked fill the layer by dragging from the middle of the image to one of the corners, use the image bellow for reference:

14. Select the last layer, the one wich we filled with the Gradient Tool and set his blending mode to Multiply.

The final result should look like the one bellow: