How To Create Distressed Ink Bleed Text Effect in Photoshop

Learn how to apply this distressed ink bleed effect on your graphics and typography in Adobe Photoshop. Roughs up your work and add some grit and grunge into your clean design flow. Forget 2am booty texts asking if 'you up?' This is the only dirty talk you will ever need. If you post your work in instagram, don't forget to tag me! I will be sharing all works onto my story.
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[@shashankshekhar3791]

The Gaussian blur + Threshold was all I was here for. Game changer thanks

[@LouisMoss]

Easy win

[@emersonmc1232]

You can also get a similar effect on Illustrator using the Image Trace tool

[@claucorderoc]

@@emersonmc1232 how can i do this on procreate? thank you!

[@arkreatives]

What's your Insta @ bro? Love to checkout ur work!🇮🇳❤️

[@ohIear]

blkmarkt hating you for this rn

[@DustinWilkie]

This comment is way underrated.

[@tsuki2000]

lmaooo

[@pimgamerz]

So I basically bought trash machine for nothing😂

[@ohIear]

Pim Bokhorst they literally sold you a tool that already exists lol

[@schrodingerscat5595]

@@ohIear lol that's it, now I'm excited for InkLab dropping so that Louis makes another tutorial about it ahah

[@nickax5342]

hugely underrated guy this is. he teaches us techniques which big guys use but never tell the secret. behind. mad respect sir 📈

[@designhappens8444]

7:08 what you can do to lower that is to go back to the dialog box of the displace filter (with those options you said they "don;t really matter" ) and type the exact number of pixels of the distortion horizontal or vertical. So as you see this dialog box is much more important for this technique and is much easier to control your distortion from there than to search for the perfect picture

[@cassbaldry4282]

THANK YOU for making this a tutorial. I've been trying to recreate this effect & turns out it's super easy. You're a legend :)

[@yakisobro]

Bro this is clean I've learned a lot from watching your tutorials, thanks 🤝

[@odb1612]

highly appreciate your work, your tutorials are exactly what is so hard to find

[@tonybarzuna]

Bruv...i’ve been looking for this effect for like a week😭 thank u king

[@juliannakristen3203]

SAME MAN.

[@skrobert6737]

Hey great tutorial, really helpful! One thing I did notice while doing this is that there is an easier way to do that step where you make it transparent - you can go into the smart object's layer style and play around with the 'Blend If' sliders until the white bg disappears.

[@alexash5029]

thank you so much that was a life saver!!

[@HoofCreaition]

By the way, making a selection of the black and white image could be done by command-clicking in the channels panel. Also a good place to store selections you can reuse later. That was how we did it before there were layers in Photoshop (yes, I am old). Very nice tutorial!

[@katjabischof9266]

YOU'RE A KING, this was such a dope tutorial to follow, thankyou sm!

[@heyslody]

So easy to follow and you explained everything very clearly, thank you!

[@patrickpetrelli535]

this is what ive been searching for SO LONG. LOVE U M8 THANK U SO MUCH

[@liliteo6018]

love it!! unconventional and so cooooool

[@elishawinckel1782]

the banter made the tutorial extra spicy. great tutorial thanks!

[@zxramadeit]

Your tutorials are so good, keep it up! Ilike this channel, new subscriber

[@josesorto-guevara3626]

Much love as always! Thanks! from USA!

[@_nicholaspearson]

Ace work again bro 👏🏻

[@vivvygipe9605]

Thanks for this tutorial dude!

[@mattlarsen]

Great tutorial. Thanks for the tips!

[@emr766]

thank you amigo, very generous of you! btw, love you accent 😊

[@jamcordan]

Great tutorial mate!

[@TheKantraxx]

Thanks for this tutorial! Super useful

[@deddykhasrian3148]

Thanks! very nice work!

[@danisentinella]

Louis, you are amaaaazing! Thank you so fuc*ing much for this tutorial. It took ages for me to find a tutorial that I truly understand about this style. Thank you so much. ♥️

[@Sharpener00]

Thanks! Awesome tutorial

[@joetowsey2898]

Keep up the good work Louis 👏

[@user-rq8vz8rq5g]

Thank you so much! It is very helpful and amazing!!!

[@lucymurray5478]

So incredibly useful!! thank you so much Louis!!!

[@LouisMoss]

AY, thank you!

[@farflung.studio8334]

Wooow so good!

[@amandalimardi]

THANK YOU FOR THIS TUTORIAL!! It was helpful and very easy to follow :)

[@GSL.LEYREADY]

This tutorial was the one! Thanks

[@ryanryan2805]

I got lost with the transparency part. this is exactly what I wanted to learn but felt like it was so niche I just searched general vintage tutorials and stumbled on this. awesome tutorial.

[@SnireOner]

inverse the selection

[@jdouguspsa]

this was exactly what i was looking for thank u

[@raymondpcowie101]

Of course, you can also click on the text tool, then put your cursor between any two letters, hold down alt and use the arrow keys to bring individual letters closer or further apart...

[@philphilphil]

Fantastic tutorial. Thank ya, Boss

[@Gaajuto]

Great tutorial ! thank you

[@RickingtingPro]

Great work bro!! I learned a lot! great pace! (Very fast for beginners - Like me) but to the point!! nice!

[@Maree-clurr]

Really good tutorial - i think it's really important to explain why your doing things and you did just that! - thank you :)

[@DanielaAlarconilustracion]

thank you so much for this

[@martindrake81]

Great tutorial thank you. Really helped with my project :)

[@andrewgalaviz9453]

For those of you who might be on procreate you can Gaussian blur then use the select tool to fill the text as you desire then overlay a texture on top of the text layer :)

[@withloveharlow]

sick.! Thanks so much

[@joshua4ever]

one day when i get to make a living off of designs i'm gonna have this man and this man alone to thank

[@keto9423]

Thank you!

[@samfrodo]

absolutely brilliant, thank you so much for the tutorial!

[@LouisMoss]

Glad it was helpful 🙏🏼

[@p2mthedirector]

Great Tutorial

[@jshep9176]

cheers bro, super helpful. Liked and subscribed!

[@LouisMoss]

Nice one, Cheers!

[@user-sn5li8ho1z]

Thank youu! I would reeally appreciate a video explaining the workflow using this technique:)

[@Anophis]

nice stuff man

[@Ahaaaa_]

THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHHHHH

[@julias1211]

Ur a genius thank u sooo much

[@keltstrogner3429]

Great video man. Cheers from Seattle USA

[@LouisMoss]

Cheers man! 💫

[@dickomode.mp4137]

nice cut 💯💯💯

[@theweedishchef420]

Awesome video

[@T3ddy96]

Haha love the thumbnail CITY SODA CLUB!

[@LouisMoss]

Xx

[@TeerdKrepp]

ty!

[@kylemclaughlin8582]

got a new sub lad

[@hoangvuong9747]

you can make rough effect with shorter steps by using displace grunge texture or something else

[@gijswaggeveld1103]

hahah prince andrew ;) nice tutorial man! Thanks

[@andresitovo5641]

new here, just wanted to shoutout this man for the new ace up my sleeve. good looking Louis cheers

[@LouisMoss]

my g

[@TheHannahbanna123]

King!

[@afroboy256]

thank you

[@ravialhafiidh]

si jelas tuh caranya, si paham bgt paham

[@lyc9019]

LOL funny lad! Instant subscribe.

[@sciencecharity]

i was laughing much harder than i should’ve at prince andrew & the conservative party

[@SachieKikuchi]

Prince Andrews 🤣 Yup, subscribed, mate.

[@blondedivy]

banger video

[@sofnadra3476]

Ay me cuesta un montón entender este ajajjaja entre no saber ingles y que tampoco se tanto de Photoshop.. pero igual está buenísimo!

[@MrLuca323]

Thank u so much Luis, it's awesome but can u re-upload the first texture for the displace map, (it was deleted from unsplash) thanks.

[@Asanfilms]

man I don't know how to thank you. You have no IDEAA\

[@LouisMoss]

Just subscribe ;) Happy I could help!

[@angelocristobal8065]

thanks for the tutorial bro! i really helpful, keep it up! hope you notice me. I'm from philippines and learning some cool graphic arts.

[@murria683]

i love you louis

[@juliusuwajeh3361]

please i need help, i made an album cover with a png that has an outerglow effect and that effect leaks out where its not supposed too.....please what to i do to erase the unwanted parts of the outer glow effect

[@camilledb4026]

Hey! Amazing tutorial, very clear! One question tho, when I try to do it, I have a problem at distort -> displace: when I choose an image I saved as a psd, PS is displaying an error message "this document wasnt done on PS, impossible to import"... Anyone knows to solution to that? Thanks!!!!!

[@shiny-xhunter4681]

WOW .

[@sophiabaligad8877]

Hi I'm not too familiar with working with masks, could I just do select the black text with the color range tool and do layer>create new layer from selection?

[@onyx.j5970]

if any one is trying to do this on affinity photo and cant get the Threshold to work put a white rectangle under the text as the background and it should work

[@chrispysaid]

He said "drop a little threshold on" for those of you wondering what he did after blurring Also important and not made very clear: you want to save the gritty displacement map as a .PSD file

[@leonardborch2913]

thanks so much for the .PSD file tip

[@lilcasper2281]

Yo this is awesome could you upload the source now bc you have 1.5k 🔥🔥

[@ttttonio]

do you know how i would be able to change the color after the threshold if possible???

[@riottkicks2258]

the shade towards the conservatives made me subscribe lmfaooo

[@cordexAE]

this is fucking awesome dude omg

[@Yaakskier]

does anyone remember how to combine all the layers with the threshold so it becomes one layer with the effect applied? I forgot the command it was something like shift + command +I but I cant remember

[@Sl33pyfox3s]

When I put on the threshold adjustment, my type gets ragged/pixelated edges instead of smooth like yours. any idea of what im doing wrong?

[@BearTubz]

no matter what settings i used, it always seems like the displacement map is always too harsh, and even with contrast & brightness adjustment it's still too harsh, anyone know why?

[@jaycprodz]

You should do a tutorial on how to make your logo spin

[@LouisMoss]

Check my channel, I have exactly that

[@itsblkworld]

Can we have a tutorial on how to cut scanned stuff for next content? Just like how you do to your post on Instagram (a pict of label)

[@revo.d]

when I click on threshold the whole background turns black also when I export with no background threshold effect dissapears or when I merge all layers...

[@Heshamelfakharani]

do a tutorial on making mockups

[@LouisMoss]

might do

[@pauline4075]

8:53 hihi, gorgeous tutorial! But i am having trouble inverting it the second time. I got all layers correctly selected and everything looks exactly the same. When pressing cmd+I the second time it just goes back to where I was before pressing it the first time.

[@danielaneli_]

You have to deselect the whole object not just the layer. Invert it like in the video and then deselect the layer and the object by going to Select -> Deselect and then click on the mask and invert again.

[@beyondgirl178]

bless I was struggling

[@hectorges]

Could you upload the first one texture in google drive? it is not available now :(

[@raymondtan7786]

What font did he use for the main type?

[@googleuser6357]

Is there any way to apply the threshold adjustment to just one layer? When I click on "clip to layer" it is supposed to apply the adjustment only to the layer below it, but instead the effect is completely removed for all the layers.

[@amatullah4819]

having the same problem rn

[@haqimdanial]

Found a solution. Erase the threshold layer on the area you don’t want to be thresholded.

[@marferreira5939]

hi! great job Loulou, heres one of my issues... im importing an illustration as a smart object from AI and im not quite getting the effect, it shows the gaussian but when im applying threshold it seems nothing is going on there...any idea why that might be?

[@mitchowk]

you need to have a background for it to work, not just transparent :)

[@bloodyharprecords4910]

Liked and subscribed. Great content! Wheres that file(;

[@dijiact]

why whever I do this the threshold doesnt pop up even when i pick it imi so confused

[@RonXX]

why when I save it with a transparent background the effect looks different?

[@edouardfrid2637]

What's the name of the font did you use please ?

[@TomasAguilera1997]

oss