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Rusty Text Effect in Photoshop

This is my first tutorial so I'd really appreciate any suggestions or feedback on it.

This is what the final result will look like

Step 1 - Creating a New Document

Create a new document with the dimensions and resolution specified below.

Step 2 - Creating the background effect

Set the fore ground colour to #600000 and the background to #00000. Now click 'Filter>;Render>;Clouds until you get a result which looks similar to the image below'

Step 3 - Blurring the background

After this we are going to blur the image heavily to have a subtle interplay of the foreground and background colours. Go to 'Filter>;Blur>;Gaussian Blur. Apply a blur with a radius of around 75px.

Now you should have a canvas which looks similar to the image below

Step 4 - Adding text

Now select the text tool and click on the canvas and type some text. I used the Abaddon font for this tutorial.

Step 5- Applying Layer Styles

Now go to Layer> Layer Style> Blending Options and apply the following styles to the text layer

Drop Shadow

Inner Shadow

Bevel and Emboss

Note the shape of the gloss contour for the image below.

Bevel and Emboss - texture

Pattern Overlay - Appending a pattern

The pattern we intend to apply is not displayed by default in the patterns palette. We need to append some patterns by clicking the arrow on the patterns palette (marked in the image below with a green circle) and select 'Patterns' from the drop down menu.

You will get a prompt asking you whether you want to replace the current patterns with the patterns from patterns.pat. Click on 'Append' button.

Pattern Overlay

Now select the pattern named 'Rusted Metal' and use the following settings

Click the OK button to see the final result. Presto! You have some rusty looking text! Keep experimenting with the altitude and angle and the gloss contour in the Bevel and Emboss section to get some really nice results.

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