268 Creating heavy metal type (updated for Photoshop CS6 and CC)
By popular demand, this week’s free Deke’s Techniques is an unprecedented second edition in which Deke takes a popular technique from the early days back in 211—Creating Heavy Metal Type—and updates it for changes made to Photoshop CS6.
The project begins with a hammered metal background that Deke created from scratch in the appropriately named Deke’s Techniques 006: Creating a Hammered Metal Background. You can still check it out here —if you ignore the fact it was then numbered 4*.
Note: If you follow that original Create a Hammered Metal Background tutorial, you’ll no longer find the Glass filter in the Distort drop-down menu. In Photoshop CS6 or CC, choose Filter > Filter Gallery, and you’ll find Glass in that dialog box, under the Distort grouping.
To this background, he adds some everyday Myriad Pro text, which he the proceeds to make awesome by applying a pattern and a whole bunch of layer effects. (It’s the pattern that differs from the original CS5-based project, because shape layers have changed their behavior since then.) The effect speaks for itself:
Ultimately, and awesomely, you don’t need anything special to create this effect. The text, the background, the pattern, and the ultimate effect are all items you can create from scratch inside Photoshop CS6 or CC.
If you’d like to see the CS5 version, it’s an exclusive movie for lynda.com members that you can find here. If you’re not a member, you can get a free week’s trial at lynda.com/deke to check it out.
Awesome
Gave the Heavy Metal Type a go the other day, Love it. Thanks