Photoshop Tutorial 2: Grunge Up A Concrete Wall

This tutorial might give you an idea or two for your own photoshop projects. I will show how to grunge up a concrete wall with a layer that looks like a 3D perforated board. What you need is an image of a concrete wall and some grunge photoshop brushes.

What you need if you want to follow this tutorial:

1. You can download this image with a concrete wall: http://www.texturecafe.com/volume-4-concrete-textures/

2. A set of grunge photoshop brushes: http://www.brusheezy.com/

Summary:

1. Open a document with a concrete wall.

2. Create a new photoshop document with size 25 x 25 pixels and transparent background.

3. Create a new layer and name it black.

4. Fill the layer with black.

5. Create another layer on top of the black layer and name it circle.

6. Use the marquee tool press SHIFT and then draw a circle. Pressing SHIFT will ensure that its a perfect circle and not an oval.

7. Right click on the circle layer and choose Blending Options.

• Knockout = Deep
• Blend-If = Gray
• Move the top right slider (white) to the left.

8. Press OK. The circle will now be transparent.

9. Select all and then goto menu | edit | define Pattern.

• Name the Pattern and Press OK to save it.

10. You may now close the document with the circle.

11. Open to the concrete wall image

12. Create a new layer

13. Goto menu Edit | Fill  and choose pattern in the dialog box.

14. Now the layer is filled with the pattern.

15. Right click on the layer with the pattern and choose Blending Options.

• Blending Mode = Overlay
• Bevel and Emboss:
• Outer Bevel
• Depth = 100%
• Direction = Up
• Size = 5
• Drop Shadow:
• Mode = Multiply
• Distance = 5
• Size = 5

16. Create a layer mask “Reveal All”.

17. Now choose a grunge brush and brush with black in the layer mask where you want to reveal the background (concrete wall) layer. Experiment with different brushes and sizes.

18. Now create a saturation layer and experiment again. I tried to give it a bit of a rusty look with the following settings:

• Hue = -2
• Saturation = +60

Done!