[theAryanTwang]

I've been trying to do this in photoshop for a while now and I cannot for the life of me figure it out. Basically I'm trying to add a roughed-up effect to something similar to the images in this post (they are crops taken from some of this year's hip dvd covers). The third photo is one of the headers here for the hipbase, and again it has that rough effect across the whole canvas.

Thanks in advance to anyone with advice!

[Zenith]

Corby's the guy to speak to about that, as he made the banner. However, it looks to me that on the banner there's some form of low opacity texture (it looks like flaking paint from where I'm sitting) added as a low opacity layer (possibly multiplied/overlayed as well).

Are you trying to achieve something like this?



To this, I searched on Google images for 'Wood Texture' (under Large Images Only). Copied and pasted a section of it on top of the image you posted, changed the blending mode to Overlay (you can use Multiply as well, but it'll appear much darker) and dropped the opacity down to about 70%

For a more abstract feel to the overlayed layer, you could try playing with Threshold as well, Image > Adjust > Threshold. I hope that helped. If you want any more help, let me know.

Here's the same image, but with Threshold applied to the overlayed layer, and the opacity down around the 20% mark...



Obviously, you'll get different effects from overlaying different textures. I pretty regularly scour Google images for different types of textures, and I have built up a pretty good library of stuff I've found, and stuff I've made and scanned in myself for use in images. Like this from my website, for example:



Sorry, I'm rambling now... :oops:

[Corby]

Follow Zenith's advice, thats basically what I did(using overlays, mostly). For the covers I just combined a few brushes(relatively unsuccessfully, IMO) using the Dual Brush feature and Scattering.

[d_alex_d]

There's also a wide variety of "Grunge" brushes out there you can download for photoshop. They are basically odd shapes or textured brushes that will create similar effects.

<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.deviantart.com">www.deviantart.com</a><!-- w --> has loads of photoshop brushes for download

[theAryanTwang]

Sweet, thanks a lot guys, helps me out much!

[Zenith]

No worries, theAryanTwang. If I can be of anymore help, let me know.

Follow Zenith's advice, thats basically what I did(using overlays, mostly). For the covers I just combined a few brushes(relatively unsuccessfully, IMO) using the Dual Brush feature and Scattering.

I've been wondering myself how you achieved the aged look on some of your images - in particular on the 'The Best of 2006: Volume 3' cover and the club tour DVD covers. I really like that effect. I'll have to pick your brains via MSN or something soon.

[Corby]

For those interested here was a simple breakdown of what I did for the vol3 cover:

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I started with a few images I took of an old plank that I found, then using the Clone Stamp I made a few stock planks out of that data, putting the scratches and knicks where they seemed to fit. the rest is illustrated in that breakdown. Keep in mind there are quite a few more layers involved(i can't give away all my secrets), such a Colour Burning to corrode the edges and give the darker areas in the cracks and seams.

[theAryanTwang]

For those interested here was a simple breakdown of what I did for the vol3 cover:

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I started with a few images I took of an old plank that I found, then using the Clone Stamp I made a few stock planks out of that data, putting the scratches and knicks where they seemed to fit. the rest is illustrated in that breakdown. Keep in mind there are quite a few more layers involved(i can't give away all my secrets), such a Colour Burning to corrode the edges and give the darker areas in the cracks and seams.

that's awesome