Day 134: Metal Text on Concrete

This tutorial was one of the weaker ones I've seen on PSDTuts. The text effect was nothing more than a gradient overlay with a stroke and drop shadow (and they even  forgot to mention the drop shadow). The texture of the text was a simple motion blur. I didn't care for the concrete texture technique (it looked like black painted concrete). I choose to apply a concrete texture of my own, apply a light source from the top right and then overlaid the texture created in the tutorial on top of mine and then dropped the opacity. I prefer the background that I created much more than the text or background from the tutorial. It was nice to use as a jumping off point but over all this tutorial wasn't really well developed.

Tutorial link.

Day 133: Grunge Wallpaper Text

Here is another text experiment (sans tutorial). I downloaded a font called GotHeroin.. cute huh!). I applied a bevel (chisel smooth) an outer glow and an inner glow. I dropped in a paint splatter texture that I merged with the wallpaper and red channel selection into a mask of the text and applied a light effect over the entire piece.

Day 132: Grunge Wallpaper, Denim(?), Stone(?) Text

I followed no tutorial on this one. I experimented with a drop shadow, inner shadow and bevel/emboss. I lowered the fill setting of the text to 30%. I applied a wallpaper pattern to the background, dropped a lighting effect on it and added a vignette to the top. I overlaid a desaturated texture on top of the text and applied a layer mask to each line to create the distressed texture in the text.

Day 131: Metal Text

Here's another layer style heavy text effect. The instructions worked for the most part until it got into applying multiple glows (it didn't work). I used another technique to get the background to work and applied my own vignette. Not bad but not great either.

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Day 130: Green Text, Funky Background

So the text itself is nothing special but the background was fun to tweak with. I applied some clouds and adjusted the blending modes to soft light. I then created my own gradient overlay on top of some difference clouds to create the color. I then masked the text so the color didn't run over it.

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Day 129: Picture Perfect Pug

Benjamin is Barney's show quality pug friend (and older brother to Bella). The effect replicates that of an old Lomo LC-A camera. I didn't use the vignette technique from the tutorial (opting instead to create my own). The rest of the effect was from the lesson.

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Day 128: Kung Fu Pug

Here is an anime style picture of Barney's girlfriend Bella. She's a cutey!

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