In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a bloody text effect in Photoshop. We will use brushes, blending layers, cloud effects and color correction. The lesson is very simple and suitable for beginners Photoshop-masters.
Here is the final result:
Materials for the lesson:
Step 1. Create a new document of any size with a white background, use the Crack brushes to paint a light gray texture for the background:
Create a new layer, set Opacity (Opacity) of the layer by about 30% and with the Crack brush paint a dark red texture:
Step 2. Use the downloaded font or any other to write the text:
Apply blending options for the text layer. Layer – Layer Style (Layer – Layer Styles):
Drop shadow (Shadow)
Inner shadow (Inner shadow)
Inner glow (Internal glow)
Bevel and Emboss (Chamfer and embossing)
Gradient overlay (Gradient overlap)
And we get this effect:
Step 3. Create a new layer under the text layer, load the Splatter brushes, reduce their size, choose a dark red color and draw some blood behind the text:
We use Lasso Tool
(Lasso) (L) with feather (feather) about 40-50 px to create a selection around the text and add clouds inside the selection Filter – Render – Clouds (Filter – Rendering – Clouds):
Compress them down (CTRL + T):
Change the layer blending mode with clouds to Color burn (Blackout base):
Duplicate (CTRL + J) this layer several times and get the following effect:
You can also transform clouds vertically (CTRL + T), attach to the left side of the text (do not change the blending mode):
Add more vertical clouds on the right side of the text, as shown below:
We get the following result:
Step 4. Create a new layer above all the previous ones, add smoke using Smoke brushes (you can also add a bokeh effect around the text):
Add adjustment layers:
Levels (Levels)
Using a gradient, edit the mask of the adjustment layer:
Curves (Curves)
Color balance (Color balance)
And we get the following result:
Step 5. We are almost done! Now let’s play a little with filters.
Merge all layers, duplicate the background (CTRL + J) and apply on copy Filter – Sharpen – Unsharp Mask (Filter – Sharpness – Contour Sharpness):
Again we duplicate the background and move it to the very top on the layers panel, apply Filter – Artistic – Cutout (Filter – Imitation of artistic effects – Application):
And we get the following effect (the blood has become more realistic):
Change the blending mode to Hard light (Hard light) and we get the following result:
AND final version:
