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4.

Now get the Custom Shape Tool and go into your shapes and find the 5 Point Star.
Custom Shape Tool:
custom shape tool image
Settings and Shape:
settings and shape image
Drawn star:
drawn star image
Add a layer mask by clicking the following button:
layer mask button image
Then add in some intense grunge brushing in the layer mask.
after grunge brushing layer mask image
Lastly for the star add some dark brown brushing on a new layer, then change the layer mode to Soft Light and lower the opacity to about 50%.
after brushing image
That will have made it look a bit more realistic.

5.

Repeat the exact same steps for the border for the star.
border star image
To finish this off, flatten the image then apply Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen, afterwards the Sharpen may need fading slightly.
Also, an optional thing is to also apply Filter > Render > Lighting Effects.
sharpen and lighting effects
Not bad looking if I don’t say so myself ;)
Thanks for reading the tutorial.

16 Comments »

  1. thank you very much :)

    Comment by soha — December 10, 2006

  2. Nice outcome. Good job!

    Comment by LearnIt2 — December 12, 2006

  3. nicee, very like it, I use now =)

    Comment by EmpireFX — January 22, 2007

  4. nice :)
    ;))

    Comment by gestibar — February 13, 2007

  5. Love those grunge brushes! Thanks

    Comment by bish — February 20, 2007

  6. awesome and easy to adapt! ;D

    Comment by Wobbles* — March 4, 2007

  7. that is cool i used writing insted of the star and it looked awsome

    Comment by brad — March 11, 2007

  8. That works great! thanks.

    Comment by Angry — March 18, 2007

  9. Thank you! So helpful!

    Comment by Hannah — March 28, 2007

  10. Suggestion, use a more drastic lighting effect (Make it look like a torch has found this image on a wall in a pitch black room) and it looks photorealsitc

    Comment by Carl — April 18, 2007

  11. So easy to understand! Thanks for the tutorial, It´s great :)

    Comment by FabioCoralli — April 25, 2007

  12. cool! thank you for this

    Comment by burgled — April 26, 2007

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  14. cool!!!excellent tutorial!!!thx so much!!

    Comment by swc — May 28, 2007

  15. thanks for the wonderful tutorial! appreciate your sharing….
    regards, Robin http://www.robinng.com/blog

    Comment by Robin Ng — September 3, 2007

  16. This was a very helpful tutorial. I’m working on a mech and this is exactly what i was looking for.

    Comment by Demion — September 7, 2007

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