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I’ll be teaching you how to make some grungy metal with a star in this tutorial.
grungy metal texture result image

1.

First create a new document then fill the background with an appropriate color.
My document size was 435 x 223 pixels and the background color I used is #dbc699.

2.

So after you’ve got your basic background color, reset your colors to black/white by pressing D.
Now go and apply Filter > Render > Clouds, before doing anything else go to Edit > Fade and use about 65% with the mode Soft Light.
Fade settings:
fade settings image
Resulting in:
after clouds and fade image
Lastly for this step apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise with an amount of about 1.0 - 2.5, I just used 1.0.
after applying noise image

3.

Now what you need to do is go and download some realistic grunge brushes. You can get some from PhotoshopBrushes.com.
Good brushes:
Grungy Corners Set 2
Grungy Brushes Set 2
Concrete Textures
Create a new layer then brush some nice grunge brushes over the canvas a bit like mine:
after grunge brushing image
Lower the opacity for your grunge brushing layer to about 40%.
after layer opacity change image

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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