Today in this tutorial we will show you that how to create a grungy rusted metal text effect in Photoshop CS5. We're going to use a Metal Texture and Slant Font in this tutorial. I hope you will not face any problem to create your own design to follow these techniques. So let's start to create a rusted metal text effect in Photoshop. Enjoy!
Create a Grungy Rusted Metal Text Effect in Photoshop - Final Preview
Final Preview
Lets start to create our rusted metal text effect in Photoshop.
Step 1
Create a new document (Ctrl+N) with 800x500 of size.
Create New Document
Step 2
Start with adding Rusted Metal Texture in photoshop.
Add Texture Image
Step 3
Go to Edit > Free Transform or press (Ctrl+T) to transform it and set it to the whole canvas.
Transform Texture
After transform texture image we get this new result.
Get New Result
Step 4
Select Text Tool from tool panel type some text with (220px) of size applying white color #ffffff. Here I am using Slant Font you can select your own choice of font.
Type Some Text
Step 5
In this step select text layer and applying some Blending Options on this text layer.
Go to Layer > Layer Styles and applying these Blending Options.
Drop Shadow
Drop Shadow
Inner Glow
Inner Glow
Bevel and Emboss
Bevel and Emboss
After applying these layer styles we get awesome effect on text layer.
Get Awesome Effect
Step 6
Now select texture layer and duplicate it (Ctrl+J) move duplicate texture layer to top of all layers. Now hold Ctrl key and click on thumbnail of text layer to make a selection.
Duplicate Texture Layer
Press (Shift+Ctrl+I) to inverse the selection.
Inverse The Selection
Select duplicate texture layer rasterize it, hit delete button to delete selected area then press (Ctrl+D) to deselect selection.
Hit Delete to Delete Selected Area
Set Blend Mode to (Darken) of this duplicate texture layer.
Set Blend Mode to Darken
After change blend mode we get a nice effect on duplicate texture layer.
Get a Nice Effect
Step 7
Now select this duplicate texture layer and press (Ctrl+J) to duplicate this layer, then change the blend mode of this duplicate layer.
Set Blend Mode to (Linear Dodge (Add)) of this duplicate layer.
Duplicate Texture Layer
After set blend mode we get a beautiful effect as like in preview.
Get a Beautiful Effect
After whole this struggle we get our rusted metal text effect in final preview.
Final Preview
Final Preview
