Make your text look like its been around the block or two! Call it weathered, grungy, or distressed, or what have you, the secret to creating this quick and easy effect ...
Control+click on its layer name in layer palette to select the layer. Go to Select>Modify>Contract and contract it 2 pixels. Create a new layer and fill the selection with white : ...
Make your text look like it's been around the block... or two! Call it weathered, grungy, or distressed, or what have you, the secret to creating this quick and easy effect ...
Start with two layers, one with your artwork the other with a background. In this example I used a wall texture but any flat colour will be fine, you can always ...