This enables us to fill with a solid color then erase at different opacities. I usually do this using different ‘opacities' and ‘flow' settings for the eraser in order to get a more diversified effect. In order to get our grunge effect all you need to do is select the Eraser Tool with a grunge or splatter tip shape and start hacking away at your solid black fill. I filled my top layer with black at 100% opacity, so black is all I see right now. You can experiment with your own shades of color, but usually darker colors work well for this effect. An easy way to do this is to create a new layer in the layers palette, then hit Shift + F5. In order to make our ‘reverse grunge' effect, we need to make a layer on top of the background and fill it with a solid color. Make a new layer, and fill it with a color (usually a dark color at first) I simply used a gradient as my background: 2. You can use a solid color, a gradient, a pattern, an image. The trick is to play around with the opacity of your layers, the blending mode of your layers, and the flow and opacity settings when using the eraser. (with a splatter tip shape) Advanced Photoshop users may want to use this same technique with layer masks for non-destructive grunge effects. I only used 3 layers on top of a background gradient, and the only tool I used was an eraser. The image below is a diagram of the anatomy of the example you see above. I will go over in detail exactly how to do this, but I want to start with a visual aid. In a nutshell, what I mean by “reverse grunge” is starting with a solid,filled layer and using an eraser to create the grunge instead of a brush. View and download the High-Res Image above Here. They aren't necessarily grunge brushes, but they are very large and detailed, and I used them to make all of the examples you see below in this tutorial. If you find yourself without a decent set of grunge brushes, you can download my Hi-Res Splatter Brushes and Hi-Res Watercolor I and II, here on Bittbox. Of course, this isn't the only way, but it's not hard to do if you have a decent set of brushes to work with. I want to show you an easy and quick way to make a grunge-textured background in Photoshop.
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