
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks122
Grunge Type
This is probably the most popular effect in Hollywood movie titles, and it’s used in a dozen other places as well (in fact, I saw
it in a Levi’s print ad the evening I was writing this). It uses the technique of “grunging” a photo, but it uses it with type. After
you’ve created the effect, you’ll drop it into a movie poster layout (you’ll have to do a little work there—mostly formatting
type—but it’s easy).
STEP ONE: Create a new document in
RGB mode (the example here is 8x8").
Press D to set your Foreground color
to black, and then fill the background
with black by pressing Alt-Backspa