Grungy Photoshop Tutorials

Quick Grungy Poster

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a sort of grunge poster. We will learn how to make some elements look a bit dirty, create textures, and add some depths to the elements using shadows and blend modes. ... Read More

Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!

This year has seen a big increase in grungey / textured / hand-drawn styled website designs. By nature I tend to design a cleaner look myself, but I thought I'd try my hand at grunge today and write up a tutorial on creating a simple paper texture from scratch in Photoshop then marrying it with a web layout to create a neat design. Then later this we ... Read More

Create a grungy background using patterns: Part 2

I’ve been asked to do a tutorial on how to do my end result for the previous tutorial, so the end of the week article will be a continuation of the pattern tutorial. There is a lot of different ways you can play with this to make it grungy and dirty, this tutorial shows you what I did. ... Read More

Create a Dark and Grungy Poster in Photoshop

Today we’re going to be creating the dark and grungy poster you see below. You will also find links to the stock images we will be using in this tutorial. This tutorial focuses heavily on blending images together to achieve a desired effect. ... Read More

Create a Grungy Poster In Photoshop

In this very easy tutorial we will create a really cool skater poster in our favorite image editor program, Photoshop. My aim with this tutorial is to show you how to find and use awesome free stuff around the net. It's an ideal tutorial for Photoshop newbies. We'll use tons of layers, blending modes, textures and a lot of useful stuff. Check it ou ... Read More

How to Create a Textured Grungy 3D Type Design

A great looking design can be easily created by combining various textures and brushes. In this tutorial we’ll look at creating a cool grungy design based around some abstract 3D type, then apply a few finishing touches to really bring the design to life. ... Read More

Design an Awesome Geometric Shaped Typography with Grungy Background in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show the processes involved in designing and creating this really cool, Geometric Shaped Typography with Grungy Background in Photoshop. This is a simple tutorial yet the effect looks awesome, have a try! Along the way, I will also give you some tricks that you can use for creating awesome lighting and smoky effect to spice up you ... Read More

Create Grungy Style Artwork, Mixing with Great Lighting and Shattered Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Grungy Style Artwork, Mixing with Great Lighting and Shattered Effect in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky, but why not just have a try :) Along the way, we will cover creating shattered/disintegration effect, lighting effect, how to generate mor ... Read More

How To Create A Grungy And “Sticky” Icon With Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to create a grungy icon and save it as a transparent png file. You can see the final result below and, as usual, you can also download the PSD source file. ... Read More

Create Awesome Grungy Style Artwork with Vexel Hair in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show the steps I took to create this awesome grungy style artwork with Vexel Hair in Photoshop. Have a try! Along the way, I will show you some paint techniques I used to make the hair and the surrounding grungy textures. We also will be using Pen Tool a lot in this tutorial, so if you�re not family with it, ... Read More

Create Stunning 3D Text in a Grungy Landscape

The more you can learn about blending images and different elements together in Photoshop, the more freedom you will have in creating whatever pops up in your imagination. In this Photoshop tutorial, we are going to go over different digital-image-editing techniques in order to create a beautiful grungy and grainy composition that has 3D text (that we will m ... Read More

Create a Grungy Style Pull-Apart Text Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Grungy Style Artistic Flowing Text Effect in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level Photoshop tutorial and some steps can be a bit tricky, but why not have a try!

Along the way, I will demonstrate some interesting method of using layer mask and liquify filt ... Read More

Grungy Rusted Carbon Fiber Text Effect

In this Etc Tutorial we will be creating a grungy rusted carbon fiber text effect. We will also be creating the accompanying rusted metal background effect seen in the preview. ... Read More

Create a Grungy, Translucent Web Portfolio Design

Not only have watercolor brush strokes become a popular trend in modern web design, but so have advanced layers of transparency (or what I call, translucence). The new Envato design has received a lot of kudos for using this effect, and this tutorial will show you how to create a similar effect, while combining it with other popular web trends. ... Read More

Create a 3D Industrial-style Download Icon in Photoshop

This tutorial teaches you how to create a unique 3D download folder icon with textures. Learn some useful techniques for creating more visually impressive 3D icons. ... Read More

Folded Text Effect Tutorial

Create a nice folded text effect in Photoshop. Many helpful tricks are suggested for creating the effect and the pattern used as well. ... Read More

Dark Grunge Photo Effect

In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn a neat grungy photo effect using a variety of Photoshop filters and image adjustments. ... Read More

How To Create a Retro Apple Wallpaper in Photoshop

Follow these simple steps in Photoshop to create a homage to Apple, combining the retro striped Apple logo with a range of soft grungy textures to produce a detailed design with subtle touches of colour and tone. Everyone loves the Apple logo, especially the retro striped version from 1977. What better way to tart up your screen than with a cool grungy wa ... Read More

Glamour model photo manipulation

In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn a neat grungy photo effect using a variety of Photoshop brushes and image adjustments. ... Read More

Burnt Wood Text Effect

In this photoshop text effect tutorial we’ll be creating a grungy, burnt wood text treatment. We’ll go over some basic blending modes and use some filters and layer styles to create a look that would be perfect for a Hollywood movie poster . ... Read More