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Graffiti in Photoshop

by Colin Smith
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Time to tag your screen! Here's the tutorial on creating your own graffiti in Photoshop.

 

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Start with an appropriate font. Here I used Tag Extreme. Download it here

Right click on the name on the layers pallett and select "rasterize type"

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Create a new custom blend similar to this.

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Ctrl/Cmd click on the layer to select it.

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With the gradient tool set to linear draw the blend by dragging the gradient tool from top to bottom.

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Don't deselect.

Create a new layer

Edit > stroke

Add a 2 pixel gray stroke to the "outside"

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Filters > blur > gaussian blur

Add a .08 gassian blur to the new layer with the outline on it.

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Merge the outline area with the graffiti layer by clicking Ctrl/Cmd+E or select "merge down"

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Select the layer again. Cmd/Ctrl+Click on the layer thumbnail.

Add another stroke, this time make it black and put it right on the graffiti layer.

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Looking good! Now for the shadow.

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Duplicate the layer by dragging it to the new layer icon on the layers pallette.

Select the new layer and Fill with black.

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Drag the black layer behind the graffiti layer and move down and to the left a little bit.

 

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Here I added a background and changed the layer blending mode of the graffiti to Hard light. See how it blends nicely to the background like it was painted on.

 


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