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How to Distress Text in Seconds With Photoshop Brushes

February 16, 2010
How to Distress Text in Seconds With Photoshop Brushes

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

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Posted in: Photoshop Tutorials, Screencasts, Tutorials

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Grant Friedman is a graphic design, blogger, and author. In addition to being the founder of this website, Grant is also the editor of Psdtuts, one of the world's most popular tutorial websites.

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  3. February 16, 2010

    Hey grant, is that the scratch brush set you have available? Great job on the video!!

    artmonger

  4. February 16, 2010

    Thanks alot, now i know more about “vector mask” button. This solves lots of problems, one of them is styling typography.
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  5. February 16, 2010

    thanks for the tips… I’m trying to get a grungier look on my site as well.

  6. February 16, 2010

    I like the effect very much ! distressed text niceeee :)
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