Grunge Valentine’s Design
Resources:
Grunge Texture from stock.xchng
BenBlogged Grunge Brushes from benblogged.com
Solid Ink Splatter Brushes from qbrushes.net
Jellyka Castle’s Queen Font from dafont.com
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This will be the finished result:
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Open a new file 1500 x 1500, 72px resolution
Open the Grunge Texture
Image>Image Size – set the width to 1500px, auto height, click OK
Select>All
Edit>Copy (Ctrl + C)
Make your project active
Edit>Paste (Ctrl + V)
Reduce the layer opacity to around 60%
Create a new layer
Select the Custom Shape Tool
Select Heart Card shape
Foreground colour is not important as we will be adding a gradient overlay
Drag out a heart, then using the Move Tool, move it to the centre of the canvas
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay and Bevel & Emboss settings:
Create a new layer
Select the Brush Tool and the BenBlogged Grunge brush set
Set foreground colour to black
Using a selection of the brushes and reducing the size of each, apply a grunge effect over the heart – don’t worry about going over the edges of the heart
Duplicate the layer
Ctrl + T to transform the object and rotate the new layer and move it as required:
Right click on the top layer in the layers palette and click on Merge Down
Ctrl + Click on the thumbnail of the heart layer in the layers palette to select the pixels
Make the grunge brush layer active
Select>Inverse
Hit the delete key
Reduce the layer opacity to around 75%
Turn off the visibility of all other layers except the heart and the grunge effect layers, right click on either of the visible layers and click Merge Visible
Create a new layer
Select the Custom Shape Tool
Select Arrow 3 shape
Click on the small arrowhead as shown below and apply these settings:
Click once on your canvas to produce a large black arrow
Duplicate the layer twice (so you have 3 arrow layers)
Turn off the visibility of the 2 copies and make the original arrow layer active
Using the eraser tool or your preferred method, erase the arrowhead and flight
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:
Restore visibility to the first arrow copy layer
Using the Eraser Tool or your preferred method, erase everything but the arrowhead
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay and Bevel & Emboss settings:
Restore visibility to the second arrow copy layer
Using the Eraser Tool or your preferred method, erase everything but half of the flight as shown below:
Duplicate the layer
Ctrl + T to transform the object
Right click in the box and click on Flip Vertical
Move this half to line up with the original:
Right click on the layer and click on Merge Down
Create a new layer
Select the Rectangular Marquee tool and apply the following settings:
Click once on the canvas to create a selection
Fill the selection with any colour
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Gradient Overlay settings:
Create a new layer
Turn off the visibility of all layers except the rectangle and empty layer
Right click on either of the visible layers and click on Merge Visible
Restore visibility to all layers
Duplicate the rectangle layer
Ctrl + T to transform the object
Right click in the box and click on Flip Vertical
Move the rectangle below the original
Press the Enter Key to accept the transformation
Select the Move Tool and using the arrow keys, line the two rectangles up perfectly:
Right click on the top layer and click on Merge Down
Reduce the opacity of the layer so you can see the black flight underneath it
Ctrl + T to transform the object and reduce the size so it fits nicely on the flight:
Press the Enter Key to accept the transformation
Ctrl + Click on the thumbnail of the black flight layer to select the pixels
Make the rectangle layer active
Select>Inverse
Hit the Delete Key
Restore the visibility to 100% and delete the black flight layer
Select the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush, size 27
Reduce the Flow to around 36%
Make the flight layer active and erase where the flight meets the arrow:
Make the arrowhead layer active and repeat as above:
Turn off the visibility to all layers that don’t make up the arrow
Right click on any visible layer and click on Merge Visible
Restore visibility to all layers
Make the arrow layer active
Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool
Drag out a rectangle that selects about half of the arrow
Edit>Cut
Edit>Paste
Make the flight-half of the arrow layer active
Ctrl + T to transform the object
Rotate and move it to the desired position
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Drop Shadow settings:
Drag the arrowhead layer below the heart layer
Ctrl + T to transform the object
Rotate and move it to the desired position
Create a new layer above the heart layer and below the flight-end of the arrow layer
Select the Ellipse Tool and drag out a small ellipse as shown below:
Ctrl + T to transform the object
Rotate and move the ellipse into place as shown below:
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Bevel & Emboss settings:
Make the flight-end of the arrow layer active
Select the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush, size 27px
Round off the end of the arrow:
Create a new layer above the background texture layer
Set foreground colour to red #AE2727
Select the Brush Tool, Solid Ink Splatter (675 pixels) brush set
Apply splatters as required around the heart
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the default Bevel & Emboss settings:
Right click on any layer and click on Merge Visible
Select the Text Tool and Jellyka Castle’s Queen Font, size 250pt, foreground colour black
Type ‘Be’
Right click on the layer in the layers palette and click Rasterize Type
Duplicate the layer
Double click on the layer in the layers palette to bring up the blending options and apply the following Color Overlay and Bevel & Emboss settings:
Make the original text layer active
Select the Move Tool and using the arrow keys, move the layer 1 pixel down and 1 pixel to the right
Repeat these steps for the word ‘Mine’
Turn off the visibility to all layers except the 2 ‘Be’ layers
Right click on either visible layer and click on Merge Visible
Turn off the visibility of this layer
Restore visibility to the 2 ‘Mine’ layers
Right click on either visible layer and click on Merge Visible
Restore visibility to all layers
Using the Transform Tool (Ctrl + T), rotate and move the text layers into the desired position.
Double click on either of the text layers to bring up the blending options and apply the following Outer Glow settings:
Repeat for the other text layer
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