Grunge Sig Tutorial

**ClearFlare** · 11-12-2007

All we are going to do is stat with a 400x100 document (this isnt really what some people use, but this is what I find to be the most appealing, to myself... atleast, otherwise theres to much background and it makes it look funny, there are ways to make it fit while its larger but thats just requires practice)

Step 1) Press D to reset your color pallet, and then go to Filer > Render > Clouds

Step 2) Download some brushes, or if you already have them load them, to load brushes go to the brush drop down menu, then press the arrow pointing right, and then choose one or do load brushes, to get them to load up in the box with the presets, put brushes that you download in your C:/Program Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS(or CS2)/presets/brushes, if you restart your Adobe Photoshop they should now show up instead of you having to go search for them, now once you have them loaded choose a brush and go at it, in order to produce different looks and feels press x to switch your colors and the brush will turn white, keep going until you get a look and feel you want. (To do what I did, I used probably 3 different brush packs, and used most the brushes in each) If you want to get good at this simply make a huge document and play around in it (I never did this, but it would help)

Step 3) Put your render on the image and make it fit with the background, blend it in if you know how, or read one of the other tutorials I have made or ask because I dont have them here yet and I am currently writing them. There are 2 ways I know of to make it fit with the image. To color it all you have to do is press ctrl+u, if you are use to useing ctrl+b, get rid of it :-P, after you press ctrl+u select colorize, then play with it, this option can also be used after you add your render so that you know if its going to fit. (my bad the picture doesnt have a render, look below.)

Step 4) Add your text, right click and do blending options to give it the look it deserves, for large text, use something that looks cool, and give it anything that makes it look awesome, remember to play around with the settings of each, a lot of the time you will always use Drop Shadow, Outer Glow (give outer glow a similar background color), Bevel and Emboss, Color overlay (take the opacity down if you use this), Contour, Stroke (1 px black), or anything you might think make it look better. For your smaller text use a bitmap text and use an outer glow and MAYBE a drop shadow and stroke (1 px black)

Step 5) You can do this at anytime I usually do this between step 1 and 2, This is for a simple 10 second border once you get use to it, take your marquee tool and select the whole thing, right click, stroke, 1 px black, now all you do is press ctrl and + a few times to zoom in or use the zoom in tool, and skip a pixel and do it again (pixels are the squares)

Other Info:
Fonts: Dafont.com
Brushes: DeviantArt.com Search grunge brushes
Brush List that I use a lot - GrungeBrushes by keren-r, myfractals1 (if you know how to use fractals these are amazing), r06rustngrunge, Zeros-Brush-Set-1, z-ocTane's Motion Grunge Brushes

If you need additional info or help just contact me on MSN, AIM, or Xfire

AIM: ClearFlare09
MSN: [email protected]
Xfire: ClearFlare

One of the things i hope you learn from this tutorial is that it gives a better look to your images, I personally use grunge all the time and its one of the only things i do, I know how to do abstract and tech, but I feel that this has a better look then both of them, especially after you get advanced with it.