Create a stunning grunge background – A video Tutorial

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”:

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The Online Video tutorial

Watch the HD version here

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.

Author of this post: Max Stanworth

Iam the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources that I hope others find interesting too. See all posts by: Max Stanworth

28 Comments (Leave a Comment)

Kumaravelan

November 11, 2009

Nice! Thanks for your time
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pcknights

September 10, 2009

cool tutorials!
Great job
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Akkie

July 18, 2009

Excellent work Max! Not only are you very creative, but you’re a fantastic teacher……the simplicity and ease that your tutorial depicts makes it so much easier for newbies like me to learn, appreciate and love art more and more! Thanks a lot for sharing!
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mohd

March 27, 2009

create more with design shard logo. it cooooooooooooooooooooooool.. i love it……..
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mohamed

March 7, 2009

it’s very nice and we wait more
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Barry

December 16, 2008

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
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ArtGDen

October 1, 2008

Nice Thanks..))))
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Craig Farrall

October 1, 2008

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.

Craig Farrall´s lastest blog post..Redesign or not to redesign?
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Max |Design Shard

September 9, 2008

@ 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
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User in LA

September 9, 2008

Thank you for putting this together for us beginners! You’re doing the Lord’s work.
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протезирование зубов

September 8, 2008

Спасибо, очень понравилось!
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Stu

September 7, 2008

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?
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ремонт офисов

September 3, 2008

Просто превосходно!
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juanpol

August 22, 2008

thanks! ;)
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Dmitry

August 18, 2008

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.
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Corey Freeman

August 16, 2008

Nice tutorial. A lot simpler than I figured it’d be.
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Max | Design shard

August 3, 2008

@ 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
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Vicky Dowsett

August 3, 2008

Thanks for taking the time to share this technique. I will definitely give it a go.
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Eric

August 3, 2008

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.
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Max | Design Shard

August 1, 2008

@ 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.
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Angie Bowen

August 1, 2008

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!
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