Grunge Font for Sigs

1. Create a new document.  I will be making mine 300x120.  Make a grunge background in this document.  If your not sure how to do this, please take our tutorial on grunge backgrounds:

2. About 3-4 layers up from the bottom, write something using the font tool and a large, bold font (Such as Impact).  Make the font a dark grey:

3. It is very hard to see right now, but we will fix that.  Go into the blending options for this text layer (Right click layer > Blending options).  Add a drop shadow with the following settings:

4. Now add a bevel with the following settings:

5. Apply these changes by clicking Ok:

6. Rasterize this text layer (Right click the layer > Rasterize Layer).  Now, pull out the eraser tool. Select a small grunge brush, and begin going around the border of your text and erasing parts of it:

7. Keep doing this to the inside and outside of your text until it looks like this:

8. Now, using your brush tool, select a small grunge brush, and start filling in parts of the areas around the text:

Now play around with it until you can see it clearly, and it fits the image well!