Making trendwh0re grunge sigs! (tutorial)

1. The first step to making a trendwhore grungish abstract is to either download some brushes and renders or make your own. In mine I used the Hellzent brushes, found on Deviantart. You can also download many renders on DA, but if you are skilled enough in a 3d graphics program, more power to you :) see the end about making your own grunge brushes.

2. The next step is to place your render on the bottom layer OR you could make your render into a brush by pasting it into a new document and go to edit>define brush. Next just brush the render around or just leave it alone.

3. Next make a new layer, in this layer choose one of your grunge brushes and brush around a bit at about 80% opacity then choose a new one and brush around with it at a different opacity. just do this over and over till you get a nice effect.

4. now break out your eraser tool and brush the grunge layer a little bit to expose some of the render junk.

5. Now go to your render layer and go to enhance>adjust color>hue/saturation and mess around with the color til you find one you like. do the same with your grunge layer.

6. for text, pick your font and type the name, simplify the layer. then either distort it or not. finally add an outer glow in the layer syles pallette.

7. o ya and you can download some tech brushes, I use some of Metrostation's brushes off DA most of the time. just put the tech brushes around the image make it look good you know.

NOW NO ONE CAN HASSLE YOU ABOUT USING A BUNCH OF FILTERS!!WOOO!

How to make your own grunge brushes!

first grab an image you think will work. or get a texture off or some random website. now grab your magic wand tool or paintbrush selection tool.

Option A: just randomly click with your magic wand selecting peices of the texture then hit edit>define brush and BAM! you have your brush!

Option B: Take one of your existing grunge brushes and just click around selecting peices of the texture and you have another brush (this is still sorta cheating but not as bad as just using the downloaded brushes.)

NOTES!

hmmmm anything else I need to add....

o ya I am using PS elements 2 so someof the places of the tools may be different in the standard versions of Ps.

If you find anything to make this tutorial better please tell me and i will add it.

SCREW GRAMMAR and CAPITILIZATION! ;)

I may add some pics later but I'm too tired to do it now.

NO FLAMES OR I WILL SHOOT YOU! :twisted: