Photoshop Text Effects: Worn And Torn Text

Step 1: Open A New Photoshop Document

I'm going to start by going up to the File Menu at the top of screen and choosing New... to create a new Photoshop document. I'll choose a preset size of 640x480, and then I'll click OK to have Photoshop create my new document for me:

Step 2: Fill The Background Layer With Black

Press D on your keyboard to quickly set black as your foreground color. Then use the keyboard shortcut Alt+Backspace (Win) / Option+Delete (Mac) to fill the Background layer with black:

Step 3: Set Your Foreground Color To White And Add Your Text

Press X on your keyboard this time to swap your Foreground and Background colors, so white becomes your Foreground color. Then grab your Type tool from the Tools palette or by pressing T on your keyboard:

Then with the Type tool selected, choose your font up in the Options Bar at the top of the screen and add your text. I'm going to use "Impact" for my font, and I'll type the word "FEAR". Then I'll press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) to bring up Photoshop's Free Transform box and handles around my text and while holding down Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac), I'll drag out a corner handle to resize my text and make it larger. Holding Shift constrains the proportions of the text as I drag, and holding Alt/Option forces the text to resize from the center. Here's my text after resizing it:

Step 4: Rasterize The Text

We need to convert the text into pixels at this point, so once you're happy with your text, go up to the Layer menu at the top of the screen, choose Rasterize, and then choose Type. Your text won't look any different in the Document Window, but if you look at your Type layer in the Layers palette, you'll see that it has now become a normal layer: