Rough Metal Photoshop Text Effect

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Intro:

Let's create a rough metal text effect, we're going to use a metal texture I've explained in detail in a previous tutorial. Below is what we're going to be making with this text effect tutorial:

Step 1:

First off, create a new file with the dimensions 500px wide by 200 height, fill the background with a #272727 color. Note: The dimensions of this file has to be 500x200 since we're going to use a metal texture from an earlier tutorial that has these specific dimensions.

Step 2:

Now we have to open/make the texture from a previous tutorial, you could just download the texture but you'll skip the entire metal creation part, which I advice against entirely. If you want to learn how to make the metal follow the metal plate tutorial. People who want to make this metal text effect quickly can download the metal texture.

Once opened drag the texture onto our project we just changed the background of, make sure the texture is aligned right. Then change the blend mode of the texture to Soft light.

Step 3:

Change the foreground color to white. Type your preferred text, for tutorial sake pick something that fits the dimensions of this tutorial, I advice you use a short name (e.g. Adobe). It's also important you use a fat/wide font for this tutorial, I've used a font that comes with Adobe Photoshop CS3 called "Poplar STD", so if you have CS3 that would be a great time-saver. You can also use the "Impact" font which is a standard font in Windows, or you can download some great fonts from dafont.com.

Step 4:

Let's change the blending options of the text, do this by right-clicking the text layer in the layers palette and choosing "Blending options". First let's add a drop shadow (normally I would add a drop shadow at the very end of adding blending options).



Next up, add an Inner Glow:



Last but not least add a Bevel and Emboss:



Now we have a basic text effect:

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