Grunge Beginner Tutorial

Posted on September 6th, 2006. Written by JaspervD.

In this tutorial Bluefire will teach you step by step how to make a nice grunge looking killzone signature using brushes and smudging.

Your final result will look like this:

killzone


Brushes used: click here
render used: click here

40 Responses »

  1. First try on this tut

  2. I can’t find the “rocky” texture, and I’m using CS3.


  3. First try using this tut. I love it :)

  4. Where can we find the X brush? It is not included in the koolkidds_BIG_hardstract.abr?

    • u have to make it

  5. This is a pretty great tutorial. :’D

  6. Yo JaspervD What specific layer do i put the gradient under on? Because i’m at the dead end..

    • After you unhide all the picture renders and brush in the grunge effects apply the gradients on top of those layers.

      This is how mine turned out. I could only figure out how to do some of the gradients and had troubles creating the dot pattern so I improvised.

  7. Not many comments on this lately but i really cant get this dot pattern saved.. any help please? i tried it and i cant get a dot in the middle of the 3 by 3

    Thanks for any answers in advance :)


  8. awesome tutorial, best one ive found so far since reinstalling PS, looking forward to experimenting more!

  9. Next time I should choose a better background color for my sig to get a lighter appeal to work with but undeniably impressive tut as usual. Slowly I’m learning that the secret to a good sig is selection in gradients, blending layers and filters.

  10. hey wen i do the brush and lightly brush the top and bottom where the killzone pic is the brush dont show up over it only on the other parts help plz :)

  11. just go to deviantart..

    • ty

  12. hey where do u get a x brush and i dont have the option other dynamics i have cs5 plz send answer to emial ty

    • u wana use transfer i had the same prob put the strength jitter to 100% :)


  13. :D D

  14. Awesome tutorial dude

  15. fixed somethings

  16. very nice tutorial.

  17. Really nice tut.
    Here’s mine:

  18. my outcome

  19. i got my result like this
    awesome signature tutorial ^_^

  20. sow i messed with some setting i think is’ts way better.

  21. my version for this tut…:D

  22. I think there are lots of good tuts here but I think they should be labeled what you need to already have knowledge of to be able to do them. They are beginner tuts but I honestly had no idea of how to copy my image, what “smacking it on” meant, what my gradients were doing and whether I would just screw this whole thing up, and I had no idea whether I was brushing something or smudging something most of the time.

    I think it’s a great tutorial but I think there should be a warning about what people should already know to be able to attempt them. The instructions were good but as a complete newbie, I had no idea how to do most of the things I was supposed to do.

  23. mclogo: CTRL + N = opens up a new document. Then, type in the size of what you want the new document to be. Press OK.

    This is a great tutorial! This is my outomce.

  24. great tutorial

  25. Really nice tut, here is my outcome:

    i like it :)

  26. My Outcome:

  27. I don’t get it. I’m at the Scatter part (for cs2.) and I do as the tutorial says. but Instead of smudging. It appears many X’s instead :S

    • make sure you have selected the smudge tool and not the brush tool

    • me too

  28. Was unable to access the brushes as I am on a Mac which is a shame but will try out the tutorial anyway.

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    My best 2 outcomes of three =) killzone is the first outcome =) Arting since 3 months.

  30. Save the render as a png please.

    • the brush says Trojan when you download..

      • the file is not a trojan, its just a .abr file

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