Create a Realistic and Worn-Out Movie Ticket in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Photoshop, Tutorials

In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create a real-looking, worn-out movie ticket. It’s a pretty simple Photoshop tutorial involving some basic procedures which I’m sure will be very helpful especially for anyone with beginner skills.

This is going to be our final product:

Materials Needed:

Grunge Brushes
Light Grunge Textures by Bittbox
Green Creased Colored Paper

1. Create a new document in Photoshop with dimension 400 x 300.

2. There are many wood textures available for download from resource sites. Choose which one you like best and drag in onto our document.

3. Using the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), draw a rectangle.

4. Using the Gradient Tool (G), fill our rectangular selection with #dd9800 to #a97200. Make sure it is set to Linear Gradient.

5. Again using the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M), draw a circle and fill it with any color. Duplicate the circle 3 times and place it across all 4 corners of our rectangle. Merge all 4 circles.

6. Hit on CTRL/CMD + Click to select the 4 circles. Hide the layer where they’re in and go back to our rectangle layer. Hit on Delete and we should now have something like this.

7. Now we will be creating the perforation on the left and right sides of the ticket. Hit on the Eraser Tool(E). From the Brushes panel, choose a regular brush from the default set of brushes. Make sure it’s not feathered. Open the Brush Presets panel (F5) and apply these Settings.

8. Erase off the sides of the ticket by running down the eraser from the top and bottom. Don’t forget to press and hold the Shift key while doing this to make a straight line.

9. Let us now add a slight Drop Shadow to our ticket to achieve some depth. Go to Blending Options > Drop Shadow and use these Settings.

10. From the Light Grunge Texture Pack we just downloaded from Bittbox, choose 3485558654_cff378930f_b.jpg. Drag this texture and place it over our ticket. Make a selection that is of the same shape as our ticket by hitting on CTRL/CMD + Clicking on the layer with the ticket. Hit on the Mask icon and change the Opacity of out texture to 48%.

11. Create a new Layer. Now we are going to add hints of grunge to our ticket. Using grunge brushes with its colors set to #906a39, add some dirt to our ticket. One of the useful points you need to take note of when designing anything grungy is to just do the clicking randomly and don’t make it obvious that you are using the exact same brushes. The dirt specks must not look like they are just duplicated.

12. Download the Green Colored Paper Texture from one of Dawghouse Design Studio’s freebies. Drag this texture over our ticket and change its Blend Mode to Luminosity. Erase off the rest of the areas of the texture except the part where the intersecting crease is. This will make our ticket look like it’s been folded.

13. On a new layer in a new folder, using the Rounded Rectangle Tool (U), create a rounded rectangle over our ticket. Set the Radius to 10px. CTRL/CMD + Click on this layer to make a selection. You can now hide or delete the layer with the rounded rectangle. Name our new folder “Content”.

14. Create a new layer and go to Edit > Stroke. Set the Width to 3px, Location to Inside and Color to #4d3011. Using the same color and the Pencil Tool (B) set to 3px, add two vertical lines opposite each other.

15. Using the Type Tool (T) with color set to #6c1301 and Typeface set to Times New Roman, type some random numbers. This will serve as our ticket number. Hit on Edit > Transform and rotate the number vertically. Add the same number to the right side of the ticket as well.

16. Using the Type Tool (T) once again, type “Admit One” on the center of the ticket. This time, set the color to #000000 and Typeface to Helvetica Bold.

17. Go back our Content folder and make sure its selected. Hit on the Mask icon. Using the Brush Tool (B), randomly mask off some areas of our ticket’s content. You may just use the Eraser Tool (E) but what’s great about the Mask Tool is that you can undo the erasures you have made by unmasking them. When Masking, make sure that the Foreground color is set to #000000 and Background color is set to #ffffff.

We now have a real-looking, worn-out movie ticket! I hope you have learned some tips and tricks from this basic Photoshop tutorial.

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