

Katharine Street, Park Street, High Street and St George’s Walk are all hotspots for local artists. Find compelling street art in the neighbourhood north of Queen’s Gardens.Head to Queen’s Gardens, where there’s a legal wall for emerging graffiti and street artists to promote their work.This gallery, which has hosted work by big names such as Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst and Banksy, runs The Arts Quarter project, which works with artists and landowners to locate public areas where street art can be showcased: Head to Croydon to see some of the capital’s best street artists and public art.ĭiscover how RISEgallery supports London’s street art scene, encouraging top artists to fill Croydon with their work. Check out the Insta-worthy art decorating Brick Lane.See works by the world-famous Banksy on Rivington Street.Spot monster sculptures hidden on rooftops along Grey Eagle Street.Admire the stunning murals adorning the walls of Fashion Street.Look out for the huge 30ft (9.1-metre) bird on Hanbury Street.Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and learned something useful.This vibrant part of east London is an ever-changing canvas for street art, filled with spectacular graffiti art, magnificent murals, painted shutters, cool stickers and many more kinds of urban art in London: Now apply the brush over this layer in batches especially over the yellow text areas near their borders.Ĭlick on the icon of ‘Create new fill or adjustment layer’ and select the option of ‘Curves’. Next to blend the graffiti click on the original graffiti layer and select the ‘smudge tool’, soft round brush with 50% strength. Now change the blending mode of original graffiti layer to ‘Overlay’ and of its two copies to ‘Soft light’ to get the effect as shown below. Now duplicate this merged layer twice by going to Layer > Duplicate layer. To do so, select all the text and dripping paint layer by pressing ‘Shift key’ and clicking the layers thumbnails and then go to Layer > Merge layers (Ctrl+ E). Next, collect all the graffiti layers in a group. Next, create dripping paint effect for this black text background using ‘Pen tool’.

Place this layer just above the background brick wall texture layers. Select the ‘Pen tool’ with ‘Shape layers’ settings to draw the shape around the text on a new layer. Now set # 000000 as your foreground color. Use the given settings for stroke.Ĭreate dripping paint effect for this violet stroke in the same way as explained in step 5. While the selection is still on, create a new layer, click on it and go to Edit > Stroke. Now press Ctrl+ Click on the text layer to make selection around the text. Keep on drawing such shapes to get the effect as shown below. Now select the ‘Pen tool’ with ‘Shape layers’ settings to draw the shape as below. Create a new layer by going to Layer > New layer. Now we’ll give the dripping paint effect to the text. Now click on the text layer to select it and go to Layer > Layer style > Stroke. We’ll be using ‘Lemon Day’ font for this tutorial. Set #ffc000 as your foreground color and select the ‘type tool’ to type your text. Change the blending mode of this layer to ‘color’. Now to give the texture desired color, click on the icon of ‘Create new fill or adjustment layer’ present at the bottom of the layers panel and select ‘Solid color’. Come back to your document and press Ctrl+ V to paste the texture here. Press Ctrl+ A to make selection around the texture, and then press Ctrl+ C to copy the selection. Open the ‘Brick wall texture’ in Photoshop. The following assets were used in the creation of this tutorial.Ĭreate a new document in Photoshop with width 800px and height 650px. Tutorial DetailsĮstimated Completion Time: 20-25 Minutes Tutorial Assets
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In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a cool graffiti text effect in Photoshop.
