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Go to Bottom - Back to Photoshop tutorials - Back to all tutorials This tutorial was written by: HaLo2FrEeEk Ever wanted to etch your name into the side of an aged and rusty pipe? I know I have...seriously. =P Well with this tut, you can find out how to do this: 
Neat, huh. Yes. You might want: Kill Bill Font Ok, first thing you want to do is open a new Photoshop document, 500x500 pixels, transparent background. Once that is open, Fill the bottom layer with black and make a new layer above it. Now you need to know how to switch to gradient fill mode, if you already know, skip this and go to creating the gradient. Click your mouse and hold it on the color fill tool (  ) and select the gradient tool from the menu that pops out, or you can type the keybord shortcut shift+G until you see this icon ( ), now remember this, we'll need it later. Ok, now you need open up the Gradient Editor by clicking on the picture of the gradient in the upper-left hand corner, the Gradient Editor dialog will open up, configure a new gradient like this:
The markers without text are black and are placed at 0, 50, and 100%. Once this gradient is created, make sure to save it by typing a name for it, then clicking "new", so you can come back to it if you need to. Ok, now it's time to start. Make a selection the entire width if the canvas, and about 30 pixels high, don't worry about centering it, you'll do that later. Now make sure the top transparent layer is selected and fill your selection with white, then type ctrl+x, then ctrl+v to center it. You should have this: 
Good, we're almost part of halfway there...sort of. Moving on. Hold ctrl and click the picture next to the layer with the white stripe, this will select the inverse of the transparency, so just the white stripe. Now select the gradient tool (remember how) and set it to the gradient you created (it should already be selected) and fill your white stripe with the gradient, from top to bottom; make sure you are doing a stright line or your gradient will be crooked. When you've filled it you should look like this: 
This next step is optional, but will change the outcome just a little. The Dodge Tool naturally lightens areas of the picture, this tool is based on techniques used to darken and lighten parts of an exposure when manually developing film. Select the Dodge Tool (  ) and draw a stright line over the black section in the middle with a 15 pixel, 0% hardness brush (to draw a straight line, click on a point, then hold shift and click another point, just do that over the black section.) It won't change the current picture much, but it affects the final outcome a little, here's where we are now:
This is where things start to get a little tricky. First thing you want to do here is make a copy of your pipe layer, just in case. Now make another duplicate and hide the very bottom and top ones. Now we're going to apply the cool little corrugated look to the pipe, what you need to do is open a new document, 1 pixel high and 4 wide, transparent background, this is going to be a new pattern. This is easy, just select the pencil tool (not pen, hold your mouse click down on the pen tool and select pencil), make it one pixel and put one dot on the left side of the new document, then click Edit > Define Pattern, name it Pipe Corrugation, or whatever you want, then click ok. You can close the new document now. Ok, now you need to apply your new pattern. Remember how to select the transparency of an image? Hold ctrl and click the image next to a layer, do this with the unhidden pipe layer and click Edit > Fill; select Pattern from the "Use" list, and then click the down arrow next to the small image below and select your pattern (it should be the last one). Click OK and your pipe will be filled with vertical lines every 4 pixels, like this: 
Great. Now unhide your top, unmodified, pipe layer. Select the transparency again and then click Select > Transform Selection to scale the selection. Now make sure your Info window is showing by either clicking Window > Info, or typing F8. Your pipe should now be outlined by a solid line with little boxes on the corners and in the middles of the lines. Hold down shift+alt and drag the box on one of the side lines so that it scales it horizontally, the same on both sides, pay attention to the Width number in the Info window and drag your selection so it is 200 pixels wide, then hit Enter. Now invert the selection by either clicking Select > Inverse, or typing shift+ctrl+i, and, making sure the top pipe layer is selected, hit delete. This is what you should get: 
Duplicate the new smaller layer 3 times (you should have 4 copies total) and hide the bottom one (this is your backup in case you mess up). Click on the top one, then select the transparency of it; click Select > Transform Selection again, and, holding shift+alt, drag it by the side so it is 180 pixels wide, hit enter, then hit delete. This will give you two 10 pixels sections on the ends of the middle smaller section. Now we need to flare out the endcaps like a real pipe. Select the transparency of the layer you just modified and remove the selection from one of the endcaps by selecting the Rectangular Marquee Tool (  ), holding alt and drawing a rectangle around one of the endcaps. You should have one side selected now. Good. Click Edit > Free Transform, hold down shift+ctrl+alt and drag the outside corner stright up until it says 40 pixels in the Info box for height. Now, keep that section selected, zoon in on it close enough to put a 1 pixel white line with the pencil tool on the outside edge from the top to the bottom (remember you can hold shift to make a straight line). Now do the other side exactly the opposite: select the transparency, remove the selection fromt he other side this time, Edit > Free Transform, drag the outside corner up until its at 40 pixels height, then put a 1 pixel white line on the outside edge of the selection. Here's where we're at:
Select the second one down and select the transparency of it. Now click Select > Transform Selection, hold down shift+alt and drag the sides til the width is 160 pixels, then hit enter. Invert the selection (Select > Inverse or shift+ctrl+i) and hit delete. Select the transparency again and again transform the selection, this time dragging it until the width is 140 pixels, hit enter then delete. This will give you the expanded sort of outer-middle sections. This part is easy, select the transparency of the new layer and click Edit > Free Transform, hold shift+alt and drag the box in the middle of the top line until the height is 40 pixels (it should snap to it becuase of the endcaps layer), and hit enter. Now with those still selected, zoom in again and put a 1 pixel white line on both edges of both of the sections, so you look like this: 
Sweet, almost done. Select the lowest visible layer of the smaller middle section, then select the text tool by either clicking (  ), or by typing the keyboard shurtcut t. Click on the document somewhere and put your text, select the font you want to use (looks best with a think font, I used the killbill font, which you can download above), make the text white, and be sure it fits between the outer-middle caps, then right click the text layer in the Layers window and click Rasterize Type. Hit ctrl+x then ctrl+v to center it. Change the Blending Mode to Overlay, and this is what you get:
Alternately, you can duplicate the text layer, set the top one's blending mode to Overlay and the bottom one's to Soft Light, you will get this: 
Now you can delete the bottom black layer, then trim the image down by clicking Image > Trim, set Based On to Transparent Pixels, and make it do all four, top, bottom, left, and right. Click Layer > Merge Visible, which will merge all your visiable layers together, you can delete the ones that don't get merged in, they don't matter anymore: 
Alright, ready for some color? I made mine a (very) rusty iron, or even copper color, to achieve this click Layer > New Adjusment Layer > Color Balance and put these settings: Shadows: +45 +20 +5 Midtones: +40 +20 -30 Highlights: +45 +15 +30 Preserve Luminosity: Checked Click ok and you will get this result: 
You need to add some rust now. To do this select the pipe layer, then click Filter > Distort > Diffuse Glow. Mess with the settings all you want, but I've found that these look the best: Graininess: 5 Glow Amount: 10 Clear Amount: 10 You can apply this a few times to see how you like the look. Applied one time with those settings you will get something like this: 
And that's it. Congratulations, you're a vandalist, and a graffiti artist now, nice!Questions? Ask them here and one of our friendly members will be happy to help you. note: You will need to have an account on the forum to ask questions, but its free. Go to top - Back to Photoshop tutorials - Back to all tutorials
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