Vanity License Plate

Different State, ofcourse different legal requirements to each plate of
Country, like... mayB, we've found the white plate of California, America... and we've got here is Black simple metal plate. Gosh, am I that good? Lmao!

OK... in this tut... We're gonna try to create a custom vanity license plate using some creative layer stylings.

Step 1

Open a new file 500×300 at 72ppi. Seems that I like to get a piece of reference to work from, but 'till now... i've got an idea... lol... so I’ve inset my example in the Step 1 graphic. Please to the owner of this number.. don't get mad of me!

Fill your background with a pretty radial gradient ( #f5e9d3 to #a2875d) we’ll be first creating a light brown and you wanna be able to see what you're doing ofcourse on your workflow. You can fill the background with any color you like...

Step 2

Create New Layer and rename it Plat Nomor. Press the U key to switch to the Custom Shape tool and choose Rounded Rectangle, make sure that the Fill Pixels icon is checked and set the Radius to 15 pixels.

(*note: our black metal plate in Indonesia would be about 2 : 1 or 25cm x 15cm,
so here I use that easy scale to applied in our job). It's about 25 x 15 in Fixed
Ratio with Rectangular Marquee help.

Step 3

Set your foreground and background colors to #252424 and #000000 than Select Filter > Noise > Add Noise from the main menu, set the Amount to 2% and make sure that Gaussian and Monochromatic are checked before hitting OK.

Double click next to the layer name in the Layers palette to bring up the Layer Styles dialog then add the following Drop Shadow and Bevel And Emboss.

Step 4

Advertise Here!

Create a New Layer, call it B 2855 WL or what ever you like... Press the T key to call up the Text tool, set the text color to #FFFFFF and for my example the font size is 85pt of Dave Hansen kind of font. Type it! Draw a single white line to saperate the B 2855 WL with the 12.09 using Custom Shape Tool (U)...

Did it? Again make a New Layer and we could name it 12.09 or again it's up to your ass guys! You can put this 12.09 in the Bottom Center of the Plate, or Right Bottom of it just like my 2nd inset right about there...

Select these 3 Layers (B 2855 WL, Line and 12.09 layer) by holding down the Ctrl + Click. After these 3 Layers change into Blue (means they are selected the three of 'em) merge 'em! How? Make your mind! Press Shift + E to get that action.

Your Layer Palette should be like this :) .................or not? Lol...

Step 5

Create a New Layer beneath the text layer we just merged by holding down the Ctrl key while clicking the Create New Layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette and rename it Line Bevel.

With the Line layer selected, Ctrl + Click on the Line layer icon to load the text as a selection. Now Expand the selection by 4 pixels by using the Select > Modify > Expand option in the main menu and fill the selection with any color. I used this very attractive Dark Turquoise color >>> #339999. Can you believe that, Dark Turquoise color?!?! Lmao!!! Shut up Doods!!!Just go ahead and Ctrl + D when you’re done to release the selection.

Step 6

Here's the fun part. Drop the Line Bevel’s Fill opacity to 0% and the following
Bevel And Emboss layer style.

Or your ass could apply this Bevel And Emboss layer style with your own
damn style! Enuf!

Final Touch

Select the Plat Nomor layer, hit Ctrl + L to bring the final color adjustment (optional). You could go crazy with some of the grunge brushes and bend the edges a little to really age the plate.

So......... it's a WRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPP!!!

With a lil' penetration here and there...

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