Tutorial & Freebie: 4 quick steps to a textured grunge background - another way to make grunge
Hi Everyone, I received a few requests for tutorials so here is the first one. Grunge w/textures.
1. Start on layer one with a color of your choice, I am using rust or brown.
2. Now let's add some texture to it, to go: Layer, Layer Style, Bevel and Emboss and choose Texture. Pick up any texture you like from your choices, it doesn't matter which. and really increase it's size. Mine is +755.
3. Now let's make another layer. On this new blank layer, open up your brush palette and choose a grunge effect style you like and another tone of the rust or orange color. On Layer 2 apply the brush or stamp and hit the Layer, Layer style, drop shadow. This is now layer two.
4. Let's add another layer and repeat 3. Pick a new and a different grunge brush or stamp, and apply that to layer 3, again go to Layer, layer style, drop shadow and add gradient overlay this time vs. just a color. Here is layer 3.
5. Keep going or end here. Now let's make something with our new grunge paper.
On Layer 1, bring in the same color as your grunge background again.
On layer 2 bring in some choppy shapes, I put two together on layer 2 to make this version and merged them together.
On layer 3 bring in your new grunge paper. Hit cntrl, alt, G and it will wrap around your choppy shapes. Now merge layer 3 and 2 together. Now Hit. Layer, Layer Styles, Drop Shadow.
Now add some texture to your brown background. Go to Layer, Layer Styles, Bevel and Emboss and the texture choice, and adjust size to what you like, mine is +161.
Here is a link to the 2 grunge samples above for those interested.
http://www.4shared.com/file/57773021/241ca3cd/2grungebackgrounds.html