So to start, what I'm going to be covering is a simple way to achieve that vintage/worn/washed look. The point of this tutorial isn't to advise that you stop using textures altogether, but to explain how to achieve this effect if you don't have those textures or resources available to you. This is definitely the poor man's tutorial! Here's the basic look we're going for, I'll be using my DBH Kiss contest submission (Note: click images for full size): <a href = "http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6648/73756463.jpg"><img src = "http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6648/73756463.jpg"></a> 1.) We'll start with the untouched design: <a href = "http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6751/74449911.jpg"><img src = "http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6751/74449911.jpg"></a> Not bad right? But we're going for a dirtier look. (Note: I have a solid black background for tee color, and the white all on one layer) 2.) Go ahead and make a new layer on top of your artwork layer, and fill it with white. (Edit>Fill or Shift+f5) 3.) Choose Filter>Render>Fibers, and play with the settings until you like the way it looks. This will be our distress, so play around a bit! Here are the settings I used: <img src = "http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1567/75290208.jpg"> At this point you should have a grey mess of lines covering your artwork, but don't worry.. almost there! 4.) This step can be done a few ways, if you're comfortable with adjusting levels then you can go that route, but the idea is to get your mess of lines to solid black and white, so we'll be using threshold. (Image>Adjustments>Threshold) or (Image>Adjustments>Levels) You'll want to play around with this as well, just make sure there is more white than black when you're finished.. the idea is to distress the artwork, not destroy it! I used the default threshold setting of 128: <img src="http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9362/97492820.jpg" /> (Note: Threshold sometimes cuts down to individual pixels, and those are sometimes difficult to print. Be sure to check your artwork with your printer.) Once you're finished with that, your grey and white mess of lines should be a black and white mess of lines! 5.) Now to ruin your artwork! Choose the magic wand tool, and stay on your new layer. Uncheck the boxes that read "Anti-alias", "Contiguous", and "Sample all Layers". You may need to zoom in at this point, the idea here is to select the <i>black</i> pixels on your new layer. Once that's done, holding shift, select any and all of your artwork layers on the right hand side of the screen. Now, cut dem pixels outta thar! (Edit>Cut) Also I've got to stress that because you're doing this, you should never save over your original artwork.. you never know if you'd like to have the clean version for later. You should be left with a nice destroyed version of your artwork similar to this one (But not quite as awesome): <a href = "http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6360/46290419.jpg"><img src = "http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6360/46290419.jpg"></a> Voila. There are a few more things I do to get my distress, but I'll leave that out for now. If you'd like to vote for this one, check it out on DBH <a href = "http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/55018">HERE!</a> Thanks for reading, til next time -Drew G. 2009-05-29T19:26:13-04:00 How to distress artwork using only photoshop CS3 true 0 531 The Quick and Cheap Distress Tutorial for Photoshop CS3 7069 1 2009-11-22T04:40:24-05:00 3808