Blog Banner Exercise

   I stumbled upon this tutorial and decided to create a banner for my blog.

http://designinstruct.com/graphic-design/text-effects/create-a-dark-grunge-3d-text-scene-in-photoshop/

    Here is my final version. For the most part I did not stray from the steps in the tutorial, with the exception of creating my text shapes in Illustrator. I also omitted the gradient map adjustment layer on step 18. I wanted to retain the black background to match my blog.

 

   While this was a good quick photoshop exercise for me, I hope to come up with an original banner design in the future.