Grunge Tutorial

This Grunge Tutorial will explain how to make the below texture.

These types of textures are extremely useful on almost all types of graphics; icons, collages, layouts and whatever else you’re making.

Knowing how to make these is really useful, often you can’t quite find the exact type of scratchy texture you want so it’s great when you can make it yourself.

Feel free to request a tutorial similar to this Grunge Tutorial.

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Grunge Tutorial - The Steps

• First of all you need to download this file - it contains the slightly bigger before image and also 5 other textures I’ll use in this grunge tutorial. Make sure to save them somewhere you’ll be able to find them and once that’s done open them in Photoshop.

• The grunge tutorial first step: Take the buckets image and duplicate it three times. To duplicate it go -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer… or use the shortcut: CTRL/Command + J - If you do this right, you’ll have four layers (3 newly duplicated ones and the original).

• Now change the layer type of each duplicated layer… to do that select the layer, and go to your layers pallet, change the drop down menu from ‘Normal’ to the one I say below
  - First Duplicated Layer (closet to original): Screen
  - Second Duplicated Layer: Overlay
  - Third Duplicated Layer (furthest from original): Screen

• Select your 1st layer (closet to original) and then go -> Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur… - set the radius to 5.0 and press OK

• Select your 2nd layer, you’re going to add the Gaussian Blur again, but this time just press CTRL/Command + F

• Select your 3rd layer (furthest from original) and do exactly like we did before. CTRL/Command + F to add more gaussian blur to this layer.

• Now select your original layer and go -> Filter -> Blur -> Radial Blur… - then click here - and change your settings of radial blur so they match mine…Note: On the right hand side of the settings you’ll see “Blur Center”, just click and drag it so that it moves to the top left hand corner - again, to match my own.

• Select your 1st layer and then press CTRL/Command + F - this will add the radial blur to this layer.

• Select your 2nd layer and then press CTRL/Command + F - this will add the radial blur to this layer too.

• Select your 3rd layer and then press CTRL/Command + F - this will add the radial blur to this layer also.

• Now we need to do the Gaussian Blur all over again - but this time on all of the layers, not just the duplicated ones. So, go -> Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur… and change the radius to 5.0 and press OK.

• Select your 1st layer and then press CTRL/Command + F - this will add the gaussian blur to this layer.

• Select your 2nd layer and then press CTRL/Command + F - this will add the gaussian blur to this layer.

• Select your 3rd layer and then press CTRL/Command + F - this will add the gaussian blur to this layer.

• Okay… the more exciting step: If you haven’t already, open the textures (in photoshop) you downloaded in the file earlier. Each of them are named ‘Texture Tutorial 1′ through 5. And all you’ll be doing is adding them to your buckets image and changing the layer type.

• Find ‘Texture Tutorial 4′, it’s a black texture with very little markings. Select it (CTRL/Command + A), copy it (CTRL/Command + C), go to your buckets image and paste it (CTRL/Command + V) - then go to your layers pallet and change the drop down menu which says “Normal”, change that to “Soft Light”.

• Find ‘Texture Tutorial 1′, it’s a white texture with gold/brown markings. Select it (CTRL/Command + A), copy it (CTRL/Command + C), go to your buckets image and paste it (CTRL/Command + V) - then go to your layers pallet and change the drop down menu which says “Normal”, change that to “Soft Light”.

• Find ‘Texture Tutorial 2′, it’s a black texture with white markings. Select it (CTRL/Command + A), copy it (CTRL/Command + C), go to your buckets image and paste it (CTRL/Command + V) - now it needs to be inverted (CTRL/Command + I) - once that’s done then go to your layers pallet and change the drop down menu which says “Normal”, change that to “Color Burn”.

• Find ‘Texture Tutorial 5′, it’s a grey, concrete kind of texture. Select it (CTRL/Command + A), copy it (CTRL/Command + C), go to your buckets image and paste it (CTRL/Command + V) - then go to your layers pallet and change the drop down menu which says “Normal”, change that to “Soft Light”.

• Anddd….. your’e done! I hope this grunge tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to contact us regarding this grunge tutorial - we are more than happy to help with anything.

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