Check out the new tutorial

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/tutorial/index.php?tutorial_id=2297

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simple and well written tutorial..

I used a few different layers

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Thanks Shari I will certainly try this :)

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html

Shari, this is an easy one to follow.  The problem is getting the right texture and original image. With those elements, great results easily! Thanks very much.  I will not post the one I just did since it is among the wrong image or texture choice categories.        Tom.

Thanks for the printer friendly version. I simply do not like to read from the net and ony have one monitor to use.

What I have seen is somewhat pretty and nice...mine somehow went a different way.  I am not sure it is grunge..the look is not grunge to me.

This is a red panda over moss.

Hey..... that was fun!!! I had to stick it in CS2 cuz I just got CS4 and am just learning where everything is and I got frustrated. So my second try actually started looking kind of cool! Thanks for the tutorial!!!

Click on the pic to get the full "Grunge" effect!

Kim Hawkins

 

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 may i suggest you dont just stick with overlay.. try all the individual  drop down options..and adjust them with the slider

Yeah, I played around with the other options and came up with some cool effects, but with the particular photo I had picked to try it out didn't work with alot of those options. I could see where you could get some other great looks!
My main problem was the textures themselves. I only have the presets that come with the program and need to download some more, when I find time! LOL :P

Kim Hawkins

 

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One last try here...I really need other textures to use...again, I am not sure this one qualifies as grunge.

Attached Link: http://urbandirty.com/gallery/

“The problem is getting the right texture…”

In the Photoshop forum, “bonestructure” posted a link to some fantastic “grunge” textures I find very useful for this technique.

Chuck

Thanks, Swamp.  I am not subtle enough but this "one last try" may be closer. Anyway, I like this one.  The texture is from the location you linked.

The technique is interesting and I might try to get a good one and print it...to see how casual viewers may react.

Really great stuff..

Here's a question, would you folks be interested in a Free Stuff section, where we can share textures?

I'm sure we can get the nice folks at Rendo to set one up for us.

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Yeah! I'm all for it! I actually was having a good time making up some of my own textures after reading a tutorial on how. I'm still having a problem saving them, they don't show up in my texture file, so I misplaced them somewhere. LOL ;P

Kim Hawkins

 

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there are some under 2D

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?section_id=112&

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Very cool!! Thanks Bruce! I'll check them out when I have a little more time.

Here is another one I did with another crappy picture, but I'm learning more of my PSCS4 too, so that's a good thing!

Kim Hawkins

 

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Thought I'd give the Grunge a try.. any good? :)

Bruce I think it's  a great idea since I have started my personal FTP site to store some recommended textures for starters. I do however think it's more appropriate to store those here on Rosity.

Keep me posted please.

Piet Vermeulen, South Africa

Its great to see you all give my little tut a try .. and yes, DO try all the drop down options rather than just OVERLAY ... I use overlay most of the time.  but thanks for reminding me to try the others... GREAT stuff here.

"The only thing coming straight out of MY camera is the cable!"
P. Vermeulen

Great tut, I've done grunge before, but not with photography, (until today). I ended up using about 4 different layers all told and then a final masking border. Here is my result.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words...

So where do they go when a photograph leaves you speechless?