Worn and torn effect
Go to the file menu at the top and choose New and then create a new document. Now, go to Edit and choose Fill. The Fill dialog box will have Contents with Use options. You can select black or any other dark colour from the list of options from the dropdown of Use, this will set your background.
Choose white as your foreground colour:
and then go to the type tool from the tools palette. In the options bar, choose the font style and type the text. Go to Edit and get free transform box to resize the text. The handles and box will appear which you can drag while holding Shift + Alt; this will resize the text from the centre.
Now go to Layer menu and choose Rasterize and then select Type.
This will convert your text into pixels. From tools palette, get polygonal Lasso tool, which appears from the fly out menu of the Lasso tool. Using the polygonal lasso tool and mouse, you have to make a jagged selection through the first letter from top to bottom. It should not be a straight line but jagged line. After the letter is done, include the rest of the word into your selection. Now the entire selection looks like a rectangle except at left end where the line is jagged and is running through the first letter.
Now press Ctrl+Shift+J to cut this selection into a new layer. The layers palette will show a part of the first letter which was not selected on the original layer and remaining part on the new layer. Press Ctrl + t to get free transform box with handles all around. The centre of the text will have a target icon. Click on the target icon and drag it to top left corner. After finding this new location for target icon, click and drag the mouse to move the text in anti clockwise direction. This will create a tear through the first letter. Press Enter after the tear appears and the text will appear tilted.
Now make a jagged selection through the second letter using the polygonal lasso tool, then cut the selection into a new layer as before. The layers palette will now have another new layer. Bring the free transform box again and then get the target icon to the bottom left corner of second letter. Then click and drag the mouse to bottom or right, rotating the text clockwise. A tear will appear on the second letter. Then press Enter to accept the transformation. Do the same thing with remaining letters and create tears throughout.
Now select all layers in layer’s palette by clicking on top layer and then Shift- click on the bottom layer (just above the background layer). Press ctrl + E to merge all the layers. Hold the Ctrl key and click on the merged layer’s thumbnail in layers palette to select the text. Now click on Add a layer mask icon at the bottom of layers palette.
Go to the Filter menu and choose Brush strokes and then choose Spatter. This will have two options; spray radius and Smoothness with their sliders, which you can move around, to get the desired effect.
This completes the wear and tear effect on your text. If you want to add colour to it you can click on layers style icon and then select Stroke:
Click on gradient from the Fill Type options:
and then select the gradient preview area to get gradient editor:
Now bring the colour picker by double clicking the bottom left black colour marker:
Choose a colour from the colour selecter:
and click ok to exit out. Then click on the white colour marker:
which will take you to colour picker again, where you can choose a darker shade of the same colour that you chose previously. Keep clicking Ok to exit out of all windows and you will have coloured worn and torn effect on your text.
Original Authors: Siva
Edit Update Authors: M.A.Harris
Updated On: 23/04/2009
