Rust Text
Written by Ray Silcox   
Sunday, 01 October 2006
Rust Text
We've seen rust in old homes made up of tins and stuff. Its time to apply the same effect on your texts.

- Click here to see the video version of this tutorial.

- Open a new 600 x 200 sized document.

- Writer some text with the color black.

- Go to Layer -> Rasterize -> Type.

- Go Select -> Load Selection and click ok.

- Select the Gradient Tool (alt), and click on this from the top:

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- Now from there choose this gradient alt called copper and click ok.

- Apply the gradient like this:

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- Go to Image -> Adjustment -> Hue/Saturation and apply the following settings and click ok:

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- Go to Layer -> Duplicate Layer and click ok.

- Go to Filter -> Texture -> Grain, apply the following settings and click ok:

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- Change your layer mode to difference.

- Go to Select -> Modify -> Contract, enter value 3 and click ok.

- Enter the Quick Mask Mode by clicking (alt) or press Q on your keyboard.

- Go to Filter -> Distort -> Glass, apply the following changes and click ok:

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- Exit the Quick Mask Mode by clicking (alt) or press Q on your keyboard.

- Go to Layer -> Duplicate Layer and click ok.

- Press Delete button from the keyboard.

- Change the layer mode to Color Dodge.

- Go to Layer -> Layer Style -> Bevel and Emboss, apply the following settings and click ok:

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- Go back to vary first text layer you made, go to Layer -> Style -> Drop Shadow and click ok.

- Go back to the latest layer you made (the most top one, probably numbered 3), and change it's mode to Saturation.

- Press CTRL + D to deselect the selection.

- The final result should look something like below:

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