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Modern Warfare

 

This tutorial was inspired by the blockbuster video game.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

36 Comments

  1. Nick said on — December 11, 2009 @ 5:29 pm

    I can’t believe you did this .. and awesome tutorial! :D

  2. Emir said on — December 11, 2009 @ 5:53 pm

    Nice tut, nice game… tnx

  3. Jake said on — December 11, 2009 @ 10:03 pm

    Nice Video :) Thanks for taking the time to make these vids. i use them alot for projects that i wook on inn school and for fun. keep up the great vids!

  4. Child999 said on — December 11, 2009 @ 10:12 pm

    thanks for sharing =)

  5. Ted said on — December 11, 2009 @ 11:37 pm

    Awesome tutorial. Thanks for sharing

  6. sharpless said on — December 12, 2009 @ 5:47 am

    nice! i have created the modern warfare 1 log.
    But yours is better.
    http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee91/0Masterblaster0/modrnwarfarefont.jpg

  7. jadee said on — December 12, 2009 @ 7:55 am

    very nice

  8. Doug said on — December 12, 2009 @ 7:47 pm

    Cory you are, as far as I am concerned, one of the best if not the best Photoshop instructor that I have seen on the web. Burt Monroy is, and I am sure you would take this as a complement, the only other I have seen, that compares to you. I think Dave Cross is very good, Matt is not bad, and that other guy, that is on that photoshop show is so,so. But you make this stuff, not only interesting but fun, Thanks for all that you do, Doug

  9. Jim said on — December 13, 2009 @ 1:20 pm

    Corey – Always looking forward to each new tut! The ideas and methods are great learning tools for adding to skills and creativity.

    I also located the actual site for the game, and there are several variants in the different wallpapers. Now I can take this tut as a starting point and work on achieving different looks as found on the various wallpapers….More practice, more better….

    Thanks!

  10. Ed said on — December 16, 2009 @ 11:09 am

    I only wish that I could get the picture that you used in this tutorial. As always great job Corey.

  11. Chris said on — December 16, 2009 @ 3:14 pm

    great tutorial. this is just an idea but i think it would be pretty awesome if you could somehow make a tutorial on creatin and animation of those green letters and numbers that fall down in the movie The Matrix. anyways great job like always.

  12. freddy said on — December 16, 2009 @ 11:06 pm

    epic tutorial!…but where did u get the font?

  13. nick said on — December 17, 2009 @ 11:41 am

    what is the name of the text used

  14. Bob Murray said on — December 17, 2009 @ 2:54 pm

    Mo betta blammo!
    Happy Holidays, Corey!

  15. Brett said on — December 21, 2009 @ 5:55 pm

    Corey if only you were as good at Call of Duty as you are at Photoshop. Buy an Xbox already.

  16. Fabian said on — December 25, 2009 @ 6:57 am

    I’ve created the end of the trailer in after effects.
    That is almost the same as this tutorial.
    But im very proud on it, here is the link.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nElykfgt_bU

    greetz,
    Fabian

  17. tomtomss said on — December 28, 2009 @ 1:37 pm

    Nice one.
    Would you give me the name of the font used for “Modern Fanfare” and the “7″ pleaase?
    Thx

  18. Mellox said on — December 28, 2009 @ 2:09 pm

    Muy buen video saludos desde Chile !

  19. Abbey said on — December 28, 2009 @ 8:26 pm

    Where get you download the font for free?

  20. remcovrOOm said on — December 29, 2009 @ 7:14 am

    Thanks for this!!!!

  21. Kirill said on — December 30, 2009 @ 8:48 am

    Thank you very much for the lesson! Trying this right now.

  22. Denise Orford said on — January 1, 2010 @ 6:38 am

    Corey, you are my hero.
    Merci

  23. Denise Orford said on — January 1, 2010 @ 6:39 am

    Corey,you are my hero

  24. Artur said on — January 6, 2010 @ 7:05 am

    Email yokrae_10@hotmail.com

    WEll very awesome videos. but i have not set up adobe photoshot cs4 at all.. i mean i couldnt even scale with normal tool….
    Could you please send me your adobe photoshop all settings… so i wont have problems

    PLease.
    il be waiting.

  25. Jesse said on — January 23, 2010 @ 8:36 pm

    I really do love your tutorial video and I always do follow in every step that you said. So for my final result is like this http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/1640/mwarfareb.jpg. My pictures is different from yours (S.W.A.T) is much more difficult to find the pictures so decided to find another picture which is the same sniping posing that makes fit. So instead of S.W.A.T is National Guard Army (my pictures).

  26. Dexon Dee said on — February 22, 2010 @ 7:04 am

    wher can i download pic of police man (SWAT)?

  27. Rutwik said on — February 22, 2010 @ 11:01 pm

    Whats the size and font

  28. Rutwik said on — February 27, 2010 @ 12:02 am

    When you said that take the marquee tool here and select it, and simply fill it with black. What do u mean. Do I just select a part and hit delete or backspace or choose the black colour. I am confused so plz help ASAP. Nice video though.

  29. Nate said on — February 27, 2010 @ 11:50 pm

    Hello Corey,
    Your tutorial is fantastic, but I am stuck on one step.
    My sketch filter tool is unclickable/I cannot select it. I tried a number of solutions as of how this had come to be, but I can’t find a solution. Is there any way that you know of how I can fix it?

  30. john m said on — March 18, 2010 @ 6:25 pm

    how come i cant see the videos am i missing a plunging on something

  31. jack said on — March 25, 2010 @ 4:09 pm

    what are the fonts used??

  32. Mihai said on — March 30, 2010 @ 7:58 am

    Dude, you’re good! Thanks for sharing!

  33. Chris said on — April 15, 2010 @ 3:48 pm

    Ya, near the beginning when you say to fill the layer thats abouve the word =, fill with 50% gray and then use filter-sketch. For some reason i’m not able to choose sketch. Why?
    Please respond.

  34. xtreme designs said on — May 1, 2010 @ 1:52 pm

    man you are the best i really like your tutorials they are great please keep posting more videos please and i would liek to know how to make bling letters please put a tutorial

  35. twfikbulent said on — September 2, 2010 @ 2:29 pm

    thank you so much this my edit

  36. Kim-patrick said on — February 7, 2011 @ 1:20 pm

    love this guide :) but to be admitted I changed I utterly (font and sniper-pic) used a pic I took myself and photoshop’d and putted it as bg, now using it in CS:S xD

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