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This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it Make 3D Grungy Stone Text In this tutorial we are giving a text or an object this effects: And we are going to make this example: Plugins required for this tutorial are: 1-Alpha Mask, Effect>Alpha Mask 2-Trail, Effect>Object>Trail 3- AA’s_ assistant, Edit>object> AA’s_ assistant 4-Sepia 2, Adjustment>Sepia 2 5-Smudge, Effect>Tools>Smudge 6-Vignette, Effect>Photo>Vignette 7-Drop Shadow, Effect>Object>Drop Shadow 1-Open your texture image, by default the name will be Background (I am working here on a canvas size of 800 X 600, so if you would like to work on a different size, then you need to apply different setting for the effects and plugins) Feel free to use either one of these textures if you don’t have one: or 2-Add a new layer, and name it mask, type your text on this layer with black color, (bulky/thick font style works better with this technique, I am using here: Bold Pilsen Plakat font, then Gaussian Blurred it to about 10 then run AA’s-Assitant twice to 3 times to smooth out the sharp corners of the letters): 3-Duplicate both layers mask & Background and make both mask layers invisible, and rename the duplicated Background layer to text: 4-Select All: Edit>Select All, and copy any mask layer to clipboard, Edit>Copy 5-Apply Alpha Mask plugin on the text layer, with these settings: 6-Paste the mask layer under text layer (you should have it active in the clipboard if not then copy it again😞 Edit>Paste in to New Layer, then duplicate it twice (total 3 layers) 7-Rename them starting from lower one: highlight, shadow and shade respectively 8- Gaussian Blur shade layer to about 6-12 pix 9-Move shade layer few pixels to down/left using Move Selected Pixels tool. 10- Invert Colors of highlight layer: Adjustment>Invert Colors, and Gaussian Blur highlight layer with same amount and move it few pixels to up/right: 11-Give your word some sun shadow effect by using Trail Plugin on the shadow layer: Then decrease the opacity of shadow layer, to get something like this: You can stop to this step, but we will continue to give our text some rough edges and some additional effects: 12-Duplicate text layer and rename the top one notches1, and make one of mask layer visible and rename it to mask1, then distort the mask1 layer using Dents effect with these settings or as liking (don’t dents it to too heavy😞 13-Now align the dented black text on top of the notches1text using Move Selected Pixel tool, pick the Magic Wand with Global mode and Tolerance of about 60, click on any transparent area (outside of the black) in the mask1 layer and keeping the selection active move mask1 layer under notches1, then select notches1 layer and hit delete on your keyboard 14-Gaussian Blur mask1 layer to 1, duplicate it, invert colors of the lower one (for best result put the highlight under shade layer every time) 15-Move the black mask1 layer to down/left by 1 or 2 pixels, and move the other white mask1 layer (the inverted colors layer) also 1 to 2 pixels but to the up/right, then adjust the color to match the texture or just keep it white if you like it, I am using the Sepia 2 adjustment plugin to give it some orange tone: 16-Merege the 3 layers (notches1 and the two mask1), then (if you still having the mask active in the clipboard), apply Alpha Mask plugin with these setting to clean the rough edges: 17-Now let’s repeat steps 12 to 16 on top of last merged layer, but before applying the Dents, run Gaussian Blur on the mask layer to about 10-12, run AA’s_ assistant 3 -times on default then run Dents and continue the steps as flowing: Then change the white color of highlight layer to yellow or orange or keep it white as liking, I am using Sepia 2 adjustment plugin: 18-Now to add the leak/erosion effect below the word, duplicate the text layer and rename the lower one erosion, and use Smudge tool to bleed the lower edge of the letters and click OK, like this: 19-Distort erosion layer it with Dents: 20-Add some shadow and highlight on erosion layer using Drop Shadow plugin use dark color on the right edges of the leaks and light color to the left side of the edges to give it some engraved look: 21-For better clear look, clean the top rough parts (behind the letters) keeping only the smudged parts, use Eraser or Transparent Gradient to do that: 22-Play with the Blend Mode and opacity of the erosion layer (I used Overlay then duplicated it and used Multiply on the second), then add some transparent gradient to the leaks you satisfied with the look: 23-Add some light Vignette effect to the Background layer: To get this final image, (Bear in mind the steps outlined here are the minimum steps required to achieve this effect, it may need additional or different steps all depend on your own taste, think outside the box J😞 Same method used on these images: I hope it is clear and you like it, please feel free to ask any question about any step.

Yes it is possible by pressing both arrow keys simultaneously, up/left, up/right...

Wow Nanette, this is awesome, the work on the face is just fabulous. Do the screen settings affect the image? Both versions they look fantastic on my screen,

Fair enough, the PDF file is larger than 3 MB, good point barbie I will post it soon, thanks for the feedback .

I believe you are correct, it is from the selection, Rick was explaining something about Anti-aliased selection mode, I think he is working on that for V4, hope that will solve it.

Thanks to nitenurse, barbie, nanette, doughty, Dug and to everyone who liked the effect. @ doughty, you're welcome, and I am glad you enjoyed the videos. @ dug, that is awesome, I am glad you see it helpful. The PDF file was a quick preparation, and it still missing some steps and screenshots, but looks like the idea/method clear enough. Not sure if it is worth it to post it as a direct written tutorial in the tutorials section? I just need your feedback. Using same method made this

Two gorgeous designs, one is so pleasing and the other one I feel I am lost in it, we still have a problem with the Bevel Selection, I can see that clearly in Syaptic Occlusion, don't get me wrong barbie, I am just discussing the plugin technically here, it doesn't bother me in the wiring at all, I feel like i'ts something required for the design and part of it, great work again.

Sorry for the delay, this is the method that I used to make my grungy sig: Font name is Valken And this is the PDF file of the tutorial: 3d-Grungy Text And you are making this: Font Name is Pilsen Plakat And for a Stone texture you can use this quick tutorial to create one:

I am not exactly sure what kind of drawing you are trying to achieve, but I guess Polygon Tool would help in somehow, why don't you giving it a try? It works well with 1, 2 and 3 pixels of line width.

Make a rectangle selection inside the image, smaller than the image by 1 to 2 inches from the edges Invert Selection: Edit>Invert Selection Erase the space around the selection, using a large size eraser Deselect: Edit>Deselect Run Alpha Blur to something high: Alpha Blur You can add a white background layer or any color.

thanks, and thanks to all who participated and/or voted, was fun comp. Congratulations Welshblue, nanette and minners, and everyone, really great entries, Doughty I like your entry Thanks again NN.

Make the desired Gradient on the whole layer Then use Alpha Mask plugin

You welcome, As I know This will be fixed in V4, but I am still not so sure.

Yeah you are right, but clicking on the thumbnail insead of the layer name will keep the clipbord contains unchanged.

This is a normal behave in windows, Double click means copy, and Rick has explained this before but I can't recall where exactly.

This is fantastic, works great. I hope I not missing something, But I can hardly see the grid on a dark image And yes pyro thanks again and million times.

Hey Possum, long time man, great to see you back. My pets are waiting the next theme.

Wow, that final image is fantastic, a huge improvement, I totally agree with Dug about your patience, with those additional highlights you have given a convex surface to the violin, great work pixey.

Awesome round, Great entries everyone, and congrats Dug, and all winners, and runners up.

Amazing work, Nanette, what a beautiful image, I have a suggestion, how about a faint reflection or shadow of the bow on the shiny face? I am sure you haven't missed that, may be you are right about not adding it.

Nice new images, I like the one with the hidden face of the monster And yes even if you use the [thumb] with [hide] codes, the forum will still download the linked full size images, even if you don't click on the "Show" command

@ pdnnoob, that exactly what PhotoBucket does, ready small images (thumbnails) And there is a code generator for multiple images, scroll down to the end of each page in Photobucket to see the option ( and copy the Clickable Thumbnails from the list)

@ nitenurse and barbie, your entries are so beautiful, you gals have raised the level, this will be a hard comp. @ midora, two awesome animations, I love them both equally, and like more your creativity. Another take on the PDNAnimator, thinking of animating waterfall photo and fire with same idea, but they are all on hold till the final release of your awesome plugin, to get the GIF files. This is a quick try on the meteor, I like the result, and the plugin makes the work much easier by saving the PDN and view it right away in the plugin, then make the corrections: Click for bigger size' Layers are %100 PDN How can I attatch the ZIP file of PDN file here? EDIT2: As the SOTW thread is closed, I would like to thank here everyone for the kind words, and congrats winners, of course everybody here is a winner to me. @ doughty, thanks so much, it is really so simple for a tutorial, but I don't mind at all to write a tute. lets keep it till midora's plugin official release.