How to Destroy an Image like a Professional

February 11th, 2008 | by beeex happy team |

This great tutorial by the photographer Steve Paxton shows you how to destroy, scratch, and distress a photograph in Adobe Photoshop. If you want to create a worn and ‘old’ look to your images, this is a very good way to do it, and you should read on.

Steve Paxton is a professional photographer from Seattle. He focuses mainly on portrait work, landscapes and crime scene photography.

In his tutorial, you learn how to apply an grungy pattern to an image and make it blend in naturally - creating a worn look like below. At the end of the tutorial, you’ll also find a ZIP file of high-resolution textures (walls, paper, stains, etc.) for free download - size: 47 megs!

This is what you learn to do in the tutorial - before and after.