How to create a grunge effect and apply it on a photo in photoshop : Advanced Tutorial

In this tutorial we’ll show you how to create a grunge effect and apply it on a photo in Adobe photoshop CS6. This is on categories advanced tutorial. You can learn tutorial step by step and more easly. so let us start.

 
Let’s start the tutorial. Here’s the image that I am going to apply grunge effect.


Step 1 : Open a new file in Adobe Photoshop CS6 and place the house image on the canvas.
Go to File > Place


Select the image from the folder where you have saved, then click “Place” button.

Step 2 : Duplicate the house image layer by pressing Ctrl-J or going to Layer > Duplicate layer or you can also select the Duplicate Layer by Right-clicking the selected layer.

Now we will change the name as “house-photo1″ for the duplicated layer.

Step 3 : After that, go to Layer > Rasterize > Layer or by Right-clicking the selected layer.

Step 4 : Next click on your duplicated layer, then choose Image > Adjustments > Desaturate.
Note : Desaturation is an easy way to converts a color image to grayscale values, but leaves the image in the same color mode for the selected layer only.

Step 5 : Photoshop instantly desaturates all the color in the photo and you will have the following desaturate effect so far:

Step 6 : Once you are done, then select the desaturated house image and change the Blend Mode to Darken with 100% opacity.

Step 7: Now, the house image will look as similar as below.

Step 8 : Next, we’ll start creating a grunge background to apply it on the house image. Click on the “Create a new layer” icon at the bottom of the Layers panel.

Step 9 : We need to create a new gradient background layer using the “Gradient Tool”. Here I have used the radial gradient using orange and yellow colors.


Step 10 : From the main menu choose  Filter > Noise > Add noise.
Note : You can add graininess to your image with the Add Noise filter to reduce detail or add a static effect.

Step 11 : This opens the Add Noise dialog box. There make the noise monochromatic, Gaussian and set it as 9.51% and click OK when you’re done to close out of the Add Noise dialog box.

The noise filter gives you a slight texture effect. Hence the image will look similar to this

Step 12 : Again go to Filter > Noise > Dust & Scratches

Step 13 : Use the following settings : Radius : 1 Pixels and Threshold : 3 Levels and click OK.

In this stage, your image should be noisy, dust and Scratches like this:

Step 14 : Set the Blend Mode to Linear Light and lower the layer’s Fill opacity to 52%.

Step 15 : That’s it! here is the final effect.

Step 16 : Here’s the comparison between the original and the final photo.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial on creating a grunge effect and apply it on a photo in photoshop. Do share your thoughts regarding it and also let us know what you think!.

by EntheosWeb