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:
Jonas Svedberg
June 29th, 2008 at 7:09 pm ;
Sorry but it doesnt work i’ve tried 3 times now and i’ve made sure that i have exactly like you said in the tutorial and i’ve checked the colours and such but it doesnt work i just get a big black ball over the text. and i dont get the same colour of the text as you do. my colour is brighter when it comes to the text.
I tried changing the gradient from white to black still it doesnt look like your picture did.
Andrei
July 6th, 2008 at 1:05 pm ;
I tested the tutorial and it works.
Matt Strange
July 7th, 2008 at 6:57 pm ;
Sweet! great for gaming related sites, might need this tutorial for the future ;)
Lars H-L
July 12th, 2008 at 11:16 pm ;
Fore some reason i could not get that last effect, but I compensated for it by using render lighting effects :) Got about the same effect.
Thnx for nice tutorial !
-Photoshop Newbie ;)
Ian
July 31st, 2008 at 12:31 am ;
Same as Jonas, I have tried this multiple times and it just does not work for me. I must be doing something incorrect if others are having success, but I cannot see what.
I have Photoshop 7.0, and at the end, the text is very dark and looks nothing like your example, and the last layer with the gradient covers everything and that is all that is displayed?!? (a sure sign that something is amiss in my technique).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Matthew
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 am ;
end result does not work fo rme either…
cant seen to get the text looking as rounded.
also, rusted metal look does not appear to be the same color.
thanks for the tut. though…
Mike
August 4th, 2008 at 11:23 pm ;
Same here followed your steps exactly mate but my problem is the text doesn’t look right at all. It is way to noisy/grainy. I’ll try sorting it out but just as a warning to anyone using this you’ll need to be able to compensate for the end result.
Andrei
August 5th, 2008 at 3:14 pm ;
If you want your text to be less grainyer set a smaller amount of the Unsharp Mask filter.
Agnieszka
August 9th, 2008 at 2:29 pm ;
Thanks, it’s great!
durrcookie
September 14th, 2008 at 10:27 pm ;
For all who it is not working do exact as he says and if you do not get the right result do not do the Gradient Overlay, then the result will be exactly the same!=P
Pierre
September 20th, 2008 at 8:55 pm ;
That was excellent!! Everything worked great for me. Thanks
Bramimond
September 26th, 2008 at 4:17 am ;
wooow! the final result is so nice…
but I didn’t have Stencil std in my photoshop CS2 so it’s not as cool as it could have been but thx for the tutorial!
if anyone could send me the stencil std font my email adresse is oussama_ben_miloud@hotmail.com thx
Suggestioner
September 30th, 2008 at 9:55 am ;
There is an another tutorial with psd file. You mus see it.
http://onurkaya.deviantart.com/art/Rusty-Text-Effect-99400040
sam
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:32 pm ;
i’ve tried but i cant get to use the brush stroke in it. its grayed out. i think there is a step i am missing.
Kaito303
October 13th, 2008 at 10:15 am ;
Ive followed EXACTLY what you said and it works WONDERFULLY. I have had NO problems with it. I made my own modifications to it to use it what I intended to make it for in the first place.. and it looks fantastic. Thanks for the tutorial mate.
ng
October 29th, 2008 at 7:26 pm ;
the end result was a little dark but other than that it’s good
Nimish
November 19th, 2008 at 11:56 am ;
Fundaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, the more you do the more we learn.
Thank you
Nimish.
kecap
November 19th, 2008 at 8:37 pm ;
This is Great!U are the king :) xD
kart__champ
November 20th, 2008 at 10:34 pm ;
never worked for me but it was still a ok outcome so its alrite i spose lol
Daniel
November 26th, 2008 at 6:58 pm ;
nice tutorial! i loved it! its almost look the same
and i am an new beginner to photoshop (:
Nico
December 1st, 2008 at 11:26 pm ;
Well, I didn’t really get it…
m0nsterkatt
December 29th, 2008 at 7:04 pm ;
Exelent tutorial ! :D VERY good explenation for everything ;) Best tutorial so far , I think ! :)
flop
January 17th, 2009 at 9:42 pm ;
good tutorial. the best.
tren
February 19th, 2009 at 1:11 pm ;
Realy cool tut, helped alot. Thanks.
Subzidion
March 8th, 2009 at 7:00 pm ;
Yeh, I am using elements, where can I find this stuff on THAT one >.<
Subzidion
March 8th, 2009 at 7:04 pm ;
Can I get any help >.
Comic Tragedy
March 25th, 2009 at 7:20 pm ;
Thanks for the tut! It worked great!
Andrei
April 25th, 2009 at 8:11 pm ;
You can’t use Adobe Elements for doing the Rusty Text Effect tutorial you need Adobe Photoshop.
Sanjit Vignesh
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm ;
i have a problem, the color of the text remains the same, with pink and white gradient, even after changing the blend mode to color dodge.
xbaha
June 13th, 2009 at 2:05 am ;
Great pal, I had finished the tutorial nicely…. ^^
idk
September 7th, 2009 at 3:17 am ;
doesnt work
clippingimages
September 7th, 2009 at 9:13 am ;
Great Tutorial , Nice explanation by each step with detail , thank for shearing this article.
bufanda
September 8th, 2009 at 4:20 pm ;
I didnt try it because it seemed like it takes to long…but im sure it doesnt work! IT NEVER DOES!!!!
dosamantes
September 8th, 2009 at 5:27 pm ;
nice tutorial
works fine in photoshop cs4
less than 10 minutes
Luke
October 19th, 2009 at 1:45 am ;
you absolutely saved my graphic design coursework with this! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
CG tutorial
November 24th, 2009 at 2:31 pm ;
Good tutorial. I have tried to put in a cache, but it don’t seem to work.You should have included that in the tutorial as it help people with low end computers.
david
November 24th, 2009 at 4:33 pm ;
mine got very light and I didn’t really got the rusty effect :(
Agon
December 16th, 2009 at 10:00 pm ;
where can i get this fonts.. Stencil Std ???
can anyone upload them somewhere and send me the link to download.
nice tutorial bro (Y)
Froses
December 23rd, 2009 at 12:46 am ;
It seems that the text is staying black and white for me. For some reason the clipping mask isn’t working, or something of that sort. I just end up with a great background, but black and white letters.
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