Overview:
Let's create a splash discount label today you can use for your website, online shop or simply as a web banner. This simple splash discount label tutorial teaches how to use brushes, save your image in PNG format and other important functions in Photoshop.
1) The very first thing to begin with is to download Ink splash brushes and install them into Photoshop. Just double click the downloaded Dreevoo_com_ink_drips.abr file and they will get installed automatically. Quit and start Photoshop again.
Create a new Photoshop document, setting the Width and Height of the canvas to 500 pixels
2) Select Create a new layer button to make a new layer
3) Select the Brush Tool from the left menu
4) Right click on the canvas and find our Splash brushes we just added. Find the Ink splat 519 brush and select it
(You may note newly added brushes are at the bottom of the list)
Set the brush Size to 500px
5) Change the Foreground colour to a bright one of your choice
6) Left click on the canvas to draw a single Ink Splash
7) Select the Eraser Tool
8) Start erasing all the spots and little lines around our main splash to form our label
9) Now, select the Smudge Tool from the left menu
10) Right click on the canvas/document and change the Smudge size to 13px and Hardness to 100
11) Once done, just click inside our splash, hold the mouse button and drag it down to create a leaking effect. Repeat it about 3 times
12) We will create a transparent text now, so select the Horizontal Type Mask Tool from the left menu
13) Type some text in the centre of the label (see image below)
14) Once typed, click the Commit button on the top panel
15) Hit Delete on your keyboard to delete the text selection
16) Repeat the steps 13-15 to add additional text
Once done, hit Ctrl + D to deselect selection
17) We will add some more cool looking elements, so select the Line Tool from the left menu
18) Select the Fill pixels option from the top panel (as seen on the image below)
19) Then, draw a few lines on the top of the text
20) We will now get rid of the space around our label, so choose the Crop Tool
21) Select the crop area to just touch the edges of our splash label (see image below)
Hit Enter to to crop
22) Next step is to create the transparency effect, so set the Opacity of label layer to 80%
Right click the Background layer and select Delete in order to remove the white background
23) From the top menu go to File >> Save for Web and Devices
Choose PNG-24 as a file type and check the Transparency radio button (see image below)
Hit Save to save our transparent splash discount label somewhere on the computer in the PNG format
24) PNG format we just created has not got any background, so you can paste our discount label on any picture like on our example below.
Please let us know if this effect is cool or not in the comment form below. Thanks
