martes, 2 de marzo de 2010

How to Make Grunge Design in Photoshop

To give a brief background about "grunge", it is a 90's music trend which emerged from the band Nirvana lead by Kurt Cobain. Cobain's unexpected death didn't end the grunge music but intensified it more and lots of bands followed the footsteps of Nirvana. But it seems that grunge has locked it self to the decade that it was born. Grunge music died down as the 90’s counted its way down to its end. Its fame has gone dark and deep as its theme of decadence, depression, confusion, and melancholy.

With grunge's anti-social characteristic like substance abuse and addiction, emotional disturbances, and suicide, its resurrection is unpredictable. Grunge morphed into fashion and graphic design. You can even try surfing celebrities wearing ripped jeans and flannels.
As applied to graphic design, grunge is torn down to its details of scratches, smudges, bleed, stained, and other techniques that would lead to an overall filthy design. Grunge design is further strengthened with the support of artists and developers creating tutorials and tools used to create grunge designs.

If creating an aesthetic grunge design puzzles you, blogs are scattered all over the internet on how too make grunge design. Grunge design can be done in different graphic software like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator too. You can easily find many tutorials provided with samples. Just like any form of visual arts, you must have an eye for design. Study how the elements are disorganized as well as the variation of lifeless colors from pale to dark rich tones. Check for the fonts used. Bold fonts are commonly used as well as Old English font style too.

When creating a grunge design in Photoshop, do the following procedures:

Download grunge brushes. You can type “grunge brushes” in search engines and Photoshop grunge brushes will top the rankings.

Downloaded brushes come in zip files. Right click the sip folder and extract the brushes. Once you opened your Photoshop, you can find you grunge brushes in your brush gallery.

Color your background. Choose color the swatches. Go to Edit and select Fill.


Create another layer and do the same steps on filling the layer with colors.
Create layer mask.


Create another layer.
Get your grunge brush and start scratching the layer.



You can always add text or image.

Use text tool or drag you image.
To put an overlay effect on your text or image, select the layer then choose Multiply.



You can still scratch the object by using the grunge brushes.



Save your work by when you’re done with your grunge design.

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