How to Create a Distressed Letterpress Print Effect in Photoshop (+ FREE Textures!)

In today's Photoshop tutorial I'm going to show you how to add grungy, distressed, ink stamped effects to your type, logos, or illustrations. The effect resembles the letterpress printing style, or any other impact print method, like a rubber stamp, or an old typewriter. I'll show you how to distress your clean digital artwork to give it a fuzzy, irregular appearance as if the ink is bleeding to distort the outline of the artwork, causing some areas to blend together. I will provide you with my free Dirty Surface textures to simulate how parts of a stamped print don't have enough ink coverage, giving it that lovely textured retro print look. Then we'll use those same dirty surface textures to finish off the artwork with a complementary dirty background to completely transform the clean digital art into a cheap letterpress print with gritty details.

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[davidchapamusicofficial]

Holy crap! Where have you been in all of my Google searches? I learned more in four minutes than I have in the last 5 years. This is the more practical, direct, and focused tutorial I have watched. Thank you!!

[saranroy]

These are the tutorials where you not only learn the main thing but also some hidden tips & tricks of the software.

Thanks so much brother. Take love and keep going ❤

[themysteriousunknownrevealed]

These are the best tutorials! Thank you!

[valeriewang]

This is literally so helpful! Thank you!!! Please keep doing all the awesome tutorials! Totally appreciated.

[victorrios]

Very well done, the filter looks legit. Not too cheesy or tacky, appreciate your time and help, thanks.

[SpiritTracker]

A lot of designers are selling t-shirts these days... would be super cool if you also showed how this could be easily saved as a .png with transparent background and also letting the t-shirt color come through instead of white (unless the t-shirt was white).. great tut.

[alexandrabrigham]

Great tut! What if we want the artwork to be a color other than black?

[nlbabylon]

I am creating a theatre programme in Victorian style and this is massively going to help. Thank you so much!!

[Sophimore]

Great tutorial! He starts editing the text in 2:35

[SoftwareManiacLSM]

A little complicated, but the results are just what I wanted. I took a lot of notes on each step.

[Pocketlol]

Thank you very much for this tutorial.

[georgeshinas]

Thank you very much. I've been looking for that for quite a time. You've been very helpful

[erikaweirdsurname]

Absolutelly incredible. Some really good tips, thanks alot!

[artywhale]

Easy to understand and concise tutorial, plus free high-quality assets? Definitely a subscribe from me! Great job, thank you!

[nesbits]

Fantastic!! Just what I need for an upcoming project

[SuperBeanson]

Fantastic content. The effect looks brilliant. Thanks

[Mo-Wk]

Great video!!! Are these textures on your website free for commercial use tho?

[Austin-vogh]

When I do the unsharp mask mine doesn’t get clear like yours at all

[hettbeans]

I'm not sure where I'm getting mixed up here, but applying the displacement map just isn't working, as in it's not causing any of the expected grunginess around the edges. It's just making the text jump a few pixels, as expected, but no actual displacement. Edit: idk if it's just a change since you made the video, but I got it to work by saving the displacement map without the texture file as a smart object and it worked.

[JasonThibault]

Love all of your tutorials Chris. What software (screen capture/final editing) do you use to assemble these awesome videos?