How to Distress Text in Seconds With Photoshop Brushes

16 Feb 2010

There are a lot of ways to create distressed text in Photoshop; some techniques are better than others but I have found that the best technique is to use a nice set of Photoshop brushes in combination with a layer mask. This quick screencast will demonstrate this technique in detail and can be used to distress just about any type of Photoshop object.

Final Image

This is what we will be creating in this screencast.

distressed-text-final

Video Tutorial

Resources Used

Grunge Brushes: 10 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

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Tags: high resolution, layer mask, photoshop brushes, video tutorial

6 Responses to How to Distress Text in Seconds With Photoshop Brushes

Whittler

March 4th, 2010 at 10:07 pm

High resolution refers to pixels per inch,your camera probably takes photos at 72 ppi while high resolution is 300ppi.You will need a photo editing program to change the resolution which will in turn change the size of your photo so you should take your photos in the largest format.
Whittler

SedativeChunk

March 11th, 2010 at 7:16 am

There should be a folder on your computer where GIMP is installed where you can drag and drop new brushes too, just like in Photoshop.

I personally hate GIMP, it's too different from PS, which I have been using for years.

Steve P

March 12th, 2010 at 6:36 pm

Perhaps someone else can tell you, but I am thinking you are just out of luck. Adobe wants to keep selling upgrades to photoshop. If it were possible to just keep adding features to older versions, then obviously Adobe would be losing lots of money. People would just keep downloading features to their old versions and never pay to "upgrade".

Obviously Adobe designs Photoshop to not allow it to accept fragments of any newer version.

steve