Grunge
Border
by Emre Sarbak aka e-sarbak | 3 February 2006
It seems like the grunge style is the hot thing for
everybody to do. Despite it being popular, a good grunge
style needs to be executed properly. Many artwork I have
seen feature a grunge style for the content and other
important areas, but they forget about the border! I think
the border is very import in creating a grunge styled work.
In this tutorial, you will learn an easy way of creating
decent looking borders. Let's start!
- Launch Photoshop. Choose File | New. Adjust the
settings to that you have an image that is 500 pixels
wide and 500 pixels tall.
- Set the foreground color to be black, and set the
background color to be white.
- Now that you have your stage setup, go to Choose Filter
| Render | Difference Clouds. Your image should start to
look a little weird right now.
- Let's make our image even weirder!. Choose Filter | Artistic
| Palette Knife. The default options are good, but you
can modify more settings if you know how to.
- Now, go to Filter | Artistic | Poster Edges. Your
stage should look similar to this resized image:
- Duplicate the layer you are on and go to Filter
| Distort |
Glass. After selecting the Glass menu item, choose “Overlay” as
Blending Mode.
- Save this file as GrungeBorder.psd.
- Open a new image with same dimensions as the image
you just saved - 500 by 500 pixels for the width and
height.
- Use rectangular marquee tool and make a rectangular
selection. Remember to leave some space at all of the
edges. Then, right click and choose “Select inverse”.
Fill the selection with black:
The spacing you left when drawing your
rectangle ends up being a solid color thanks to our
Inverse Tool.
- Choose Filter | Distort | Displace. I
recommend you use the default options. When you click OK,
it will ask you for the location of GrungeBorder.psd.
Make sure to give it that location.
- Depending on your taste, you
can erase some parts of border using some grunge
brushes:
- You can repeat the brushing effect and
add more details as seen in the following image:
I hope this tutorial helps you to create an easy grunge
border. If you have any comments or questions about the tutorial,
post them on the kirupaForums or you can email me at
notkid@gmail.com
or MSN me at esarbak1989@hotmail.com.
Thanks.
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Emre Sarbak |
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