For this effect I’ll use real rust textures because that effect is hard to reproduce in photoshop and it makes no sense to reproduce it if you have real textures. The important part is not the texture itself but the 3D look, lighting and blending modes used to achieve the final effect.
I’ll give you everything you need for this tutorial, including the font used, the textures and the PSD file. In this case the PSD file is a wallpaper where I used this effect to give you an example of where you could use it.
Final result previewfinal_result.jpg
Text font, rust texture 1, rust texture 2
So I’ll go straight to the effect although I already have a grungy background ready. You can see how I made it if you download the psd file but let’s go to the rusty effect part now.
Video demonstrationType you text using the Mephisto font that I provided you or other font if you want but you should use a bold one because this effect looks better on bold fonts. I typed the name of a fictional monster. The text size I used is 50px.
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Open “rust texture 1″, scale it down to fit the text’s width and paste it as Clipping Mask.
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Open “rust texture 2″, scale it down and paste it above the other one also as clipping mask. Apply an Unsharp Mask Filter by going to Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask. Use Amount 250 and Radius 0,4. Apply this filter to both textures.
Change the Blending Mode of “rust texture 2″ to Overlay.
rusty-effect-3.jpg
Now, this already looks rusty to me but we can make it look so much better…
Double click the text layer on the Layers Palette to open the Layer Style window and apply the following effects:
Drop Shadowrusty-effect-4.jpg
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