Blooded Mafia Text
15-05-2006 | Last editted on 21-10-2008 173998 views
Applying blood to a surface is usually not a task we're willing to do. That's why we have Photoshop. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create blooded mafia text. You will learn more about the blending-mode Multiply and masking-options.
48 comments | Posted in Designs, Text-Effects
Introduction
How macabre it may be, adding blood to text is perhaps one of the most coolest things to do. If done right of course!
For my conceptual game Malavita, which was a mafia-game set in the 50's, I designed a logo with classy white text with blood on it. Many people kept asking me how I did that and little did I know that the tutorial I later made out of it, was so popular.
Technically, it IS a very nifty technique you need to learn. It teaches you all about blending-modes and masking.
Preparing the text
For this tutorial, I used the non-commercial font "Corleone" that is, in fact, the font of the famous (and quite awesome) movie The Godfather. It can be downloaded on various fonts-websites.
In a new document, on a new layer, add some desired text. I started with the name of the game I mentioned earlier. As for a background, you're prefectly free. I chose darkgrey, because that's what overall style the game was. Just make sure the text is white.
And now for the tricky part. I rewrote this part, because not only is this part very hard, but also because I failed to describe it detailed enough in my previous version. Luckily, now I hope I will!
Firstly, you will need to download the brushes we are going to use. If you have a good place to find nice blood-brushes, use that source. Or maybe you already have them? If not, or if you just want some awesome new ones, go to Angryblue where they got awesome blood-brushes in the downloads-section.
How to install them you might ask? If you're downloaded the file and stumbled across a zipped file containing an .abr-file, copy that file to a nice and safe location. Some say you have to copy it to the photoshop-folder, but you don't have to. If you want, it's cleaner, but it doesn't make any difference.
Once you go back to Photoshop, go to your brush-tool and open the Brush Preset Picker by clicking on the arrow pointing down in the upper taskbar containing the type of brush. Then, press the play-looking button in the top right corner and select the option Load Brushes and use the finder to locate your brushes. They will automatically be added to your list. Then simply select one and choose the desired color. In this case red.
And unlike a normal brush, just click once to apply this stencil-brush, if you will.
Adding the blood
To add the blood, create a new layer above the text-layer and use a nice red color to add some blood on that layer. Just fill it up and make sure it looks like a package of blood just got spilled.
To create the bloody mess underneath the text, simply use one (or a few) of your blood brushes on a new layer and place that layer behind the text and the overlayed blood-layer. Remember again to use the same color as before and also the same blending-mode.
That should make the blood-layer look like a "rug" laying underneath the text.
Create a new layer above the blood-carpet and grab the Circular Marquee-Tool and drag the tool from the left of the text to the right and a little bit down so you will get a very long egg (or pancake).
Fill that selection with black and go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and add a nice soft blur of 2-3 pixels. Then lower the opacity and admire your work!
As you've noticed by my last image, you can go all the way with this by applying this to many different materials. The beauty of this is that because you're using the blending-mode Multiply, you're making sure that the blood will ALWAYS overlay the surface realistic.
Try to experiment with other materials and not only text but also objects maybe. Or drops like me. If you got a very original outcome or an even better idea, email me or post your image in the comments and if it's original or just simply awesome, I will include it in the tutorial!
Thanks for reading and good luck with practicing!
Andrew
February 1th, 2010
never mind that last comment lol! blonde moment
andrew
February 1th, 2010
hey! awesome site! can u plz tell me what font you used for "nightmare" looks awesome!
XXCrusherXX
January 28th, 2010
Nice tut. Jacob just unzip the font goto my computer open c drive click windows then fonts drop the fonts you downloaded in when they are install open photoshop choose font follow tut.
Ben Dover
January 13th, 2010
Pretty cool
Jacob
January 2th, 2010
Ok Maybe Im an Idiot But iHave NO Idea How To Download That Text && Use It For Photoshop .
Everytime iTry It Givez Me The Zip File of The Godfather Text && Im Juss Lost az To How To Open it && Use It .
Can Sumbody Help My Dumbazz .?
owie
November 30th, 2009
thanks
MickM
November 11th, 2009
What do you need help with Sinahi?
sinahi
November 11th, 2009
i need help
abby
October 6th, 2009
i downloaded the brushes but it wont be loaded in photoshop!!
HELP!!!
Mystro Designs
October 6th, 2009
hey man, that's really good, i could follow that easily if I didn't know what i was doing
PS
to anyone who may use this just right click the blood splatter layer, and click on "create clipping mask"
Zach Dorsett
October 1th, 2009
Hey Mick,
I am a junior in highshool. I have taken graphic art classes for years. It is what i hope to major in in college. And your photoshop tutorials and the things you post on here are great! They help me further advance my skill and learn new things and just how to make really cool unique photoshop images. I have created many things for companies and bands. I have created a skateboard image for a skateboard company and i have created t-shirt designs for bands. I just got to say i really love this site you have and all you do! And i love the graphic arts industry!
MickM
August 26th, 2009
Where does it go wrong Adeel?
Maybe I can help you :)
Adeel
August 14th, 2009
Can you mail me the psd plz..... someone mail me the psd file at cute_adeel@hotmail.com
Felo
August 7th, 2009
And to miraculously remove all the blood that's not part of the text, press CTRL+SHIFT+G...
Isn't CTRL, IS ALT!
Hassan
August 5th, 2009
Im stuck on the part to put the blood in the background please help.
sothy
July 18th, 2009
i want to download image and soft
Arianna
July 9th, 2009
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zeryu
April 23th, 2009
hello for those who stucked at step 7-8...here is the other way in CS2..
select the text layer..then go to Select>Load Selection..you will notice that the font is selected
next select the blood layer...go to Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection
and then select blood layer+text layer imerge it by pressing ctrl+e... i hope it works..any other way around guys?
Christian Kahle
April 18th, 2009
Yes, great Tutorial.. THX
Have searched anything like this already everytime
vampiro
April 14th, 2009
i love it
Nimol
April 2th, 2009
Great tutorial.
Thanks!
Pharmk357
March 29th, 2009
Very nice site!
Pharmc82
March 26th, 2009
Very nice site!
Pharmc673
March 18th, 2009
Very nice site!
Pharmb333
March 17th, 2009
Very nice site!
Pharm8
March 14th, 2009
Very nice site!
Crazifox
March 2th, 2009
i don't know if its just my version of photoshop, or if its just cs4, but do create cliping mask it acctually turned out to be alt-ctrl-g which took be a while to work out
just saying incase its a typo
Phill
February 28th, 2009
Good tutorial, might be worth adding some floor tiles to increase the illusion of perspective. I also found a brush set that included shoe prints... Creating a shadow for the main text further adds to the image [IMG]http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/8013/bloodz.jpg[/IMG]
By [URL=http://profile.imageshack.us/user/phill_phill]phill_phill[/URL] at 2009-02-28
EvilWayz
February 10th, 2009
im having problems loading the brush i have downloaded it and added it but it is not coming up on my brushes selection
turkkeyp
February 7th, 2009
Successful in large studies, but say the same thing in the smallest banner style can not work. However, thank you. :)
FILIPPO
January 23th, 2009
Hi, very nice tutorial, only one thing, i don't know what version of photoshop you used...in photoshop cs4 the shortcut is no more shift+ctrl+g but alt+ctrl+g. Tell me if this is correct im actually not sure ^^
Ovais_Khan
December 1th, 2008
very..... very goood... I like all the tutorial here.......
MickM
November 11th, 2008
Nice results Sameh Ahmed, Anthony and Gt Airbagman!
thug
November 9th, 2008
suck balls
Gt Airbagman
November 8th, 2008
Awesome Tutorial!
I made a picture with a MacBook, cause I wanted something other than just a simple text :D
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk34/Gt_Airbagman/MacBloodyPowerSmall.png
(Though, the blood looks strange on a usually clean MacBook xD )
Zaman
October 25th, 2008
Anothony, right click on the Blood Layer at click on Create Clipping Mask.
trenton
October 25th, 2008
This is the beat place ton go to learn ho to draw
Anthony "Kitten" Berg
October 22th, 2008
Well, I saw your picture, and got really inspired, so I created my own, about the CTRL+SHIFT+G thing... It doesn't work, atleast not in PS CS3, but I managed without it ;)
Well, here is a link to my picture, my inspiration. (Yeah, it's a cat's paw at the corner, you'll just have to figure that one out for yourself) :)
http://ecleptomania.deviantart.com/art/The-Family-Wont-Save-You-101384224
Laurie-J
October 21th, 2008
That nightmare text looks amazing, very nice work Mick!
Monegarn
October 5th, 2008
VERY VERY VERY NICE TUTORIAL !!!!!!
MiSKEENKiNG
September 29th, 2008
Nice, I like the concept of it. It's awesome! 10/10
ricardo
September 25th, 2008
How do i do Step 8!!! the blood around the text doest dissapear
kay
September 19th, 2008
step 8 and 9 are different, in step 9 it looks like a 3d effekt - like there are the letters and you splattered it with blood from front, how can i do that ?
Weed
September 17th, 2008
Interesting tutorial man. good job.
ddz
September 11th, 2008
use clippin mask
Jonny
September 10th, 2008
I guess the easiest way would be selecting the textlayer (ctrl+click on the layer)
then invert the selection (shift+ctrl+i) then hit "delete" but make sure you have the bloodlayer selected.
Jon
September 10th, 2008
How do you get from step 7 to step 8?
How the blood around the text disapeared?
Shabak
February 5th, 2010
i got just one phrase for you dude............YOU FRIGGIN ROCK!!! xD