With the release of my 300+ hi-res grunge texture pack i thought id do a nice quick simple video tutorial to create a stunning grunge background using the colours from a photo on deviant art and a texture from the texture pack,
The result from this method creates a cool background that could be used for the basis of a poster, showing off your work or as web site background etc. just add your own cool designs to the mix.
This is what we shall be creating:
Using the colours from “Be nimble”:
The Online Video tutorial
Download Files
- Stock Image (deviant art link) Credit to anaritalanca on deviantart
- Slate Texture Right Click - Save As
Download Video Tutorial Versions
- HD Version (66 mb)
- ipod Version (20 mb)
A cool background made simple, if some one could test the ipod version for me and tell me what it is like that would be great as I don’t have an ipod, and I cant preview it that would be awesome. Thanks for looking and don’t forget about the RSS feed.
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Very nice and easy to follow tutorial with a beautiful outcome! Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
I just finished using one of the grunge textures for the new subscribe banner that goes at the bottom of each of my blog posts. So thanks again for those as well!
@ Angie - thats awesome, im glad your getting a use out of them, ill probably slowly start creating things out of them, and put them in my flickr.
Really nice, thanks. I am trying to learn different techniques for cool background effects. This helps a lot, I particularly liked the jagged edge thing with the gaussian blur.
Thanks for taking the time to share this technique. I will definitely give it a go.
@ Eric + Vicky Thanks im glad it can be useful, and helps create some interesting pieces. yee the jagged edge helps produce sum uneven blends to the final piece
Max | Design Shard
Nice tutorial. A lot simpler than I figured it’d be.
Nice tutorial. Photoshop (and art in general) is one of those things where seeing how things are done live or in a video makes a big difference — you should definitely do more video tutorials.
thanks! ;)
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Nice Tutorial, daft as it sounds, I have used photoshop for ages but never knew that gradient shortcut, the simple click and drag, I always used to go into blending options, much longer way
Cheers bud! ps is that a yorkshire accent?
Спасибо, очень понравилось!
Thank you for putting this together for us beginners! You’re doing the Lord’s work.
@ Corey Freeman, Dmitry, juanpol, ремонт офисов, Stu, протезирование зубов, User in LA
- No problem i hope it can help and glad you like or learned something
Only just noticed you created a video tutorial, and I thoroughally enjoyed it, I think you should create more, and on grunge effects to, as I am clueless when it comes to that, and I learnt alot from that.
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Nice Thanks..))))
Hi There
I have been looking for a tutorial like this for a long time and I saw yours and was so happy. But I cannot get the Vid off Rapidshare, it sucks! I keep getting error messages and it will not allow me to download the tut and I need it so badly. Is there any other way I can get your tut? Pleeeeease!! :-)
It would be most appreciated!! I really need to learn to do that!
Thanks so much!
Kind regards
Barry