Seeking to Create a Rust Effect

[patamystic]

In the attached image I would like to make the embossed lettering match the look and feel of the rusted metal hinge. Any ideas on how to achieve this?

[GarryP]

One quick and dirty method would be to put an image of rust inside your text layer and play with the Emboss Effect a bit, see attached image.
My image isn’t meant to be a perfect result, just a sample of what’s possible very quickly. You will need to experiment to get it the way you want.
There are probably a lot of other, better, more lifelike ways which other people might add below.

[jmwellborn]

@patamystic It may not work, but if the rusty hinge is clear (and large) enough to isolate into a separate image, you could try using it to create a Style.  Then you could simply apply that style to your text.  Should match perfectly.   @GarryP   If this would work, perhaps you could make Patamystic — being brand new — one of your very helpful videos?   

[patamystic]

Thanks for these suggestions. I'm a former Photoshop user and I used to know how to do these kinds of things in that app. But it's been several years and I just recently started working with Affinity apps. Photoshop has Pattern feature that would do what I want but I don't see anythign like that in Aff. Photo.

I'll try both of the methods suggested above. I enjoy tinkering and experimenting and these suggestions helpful.

[v_kyr]

You can make a reusable custom style out of that rusted metal hinge (see for example here: how to make a style). - It's overall the procedure I used here for making these rust styles.

[patamystic]

Styles! Aha. The workbook has only a single mention of the Styles Panel so I missed that. I guess Styles do what Photoshop Patterns do. This is helpful. Thanks very much.

[v_kyr]

14 minutes ago, patamystic said:

The workbook has only a single mention of the Styles Panel ...

The online help also tells a little bit about the usage of ...

• Styles
• Styles panel

The creation of styles and their usability are available in all actual Affinity apps and the online help of the coresponding Affinity apps should at least tell some basics for those. Note however that you will need a vector shape (form), which you then fill and adjust with a gradient bitmap, in order to generate/build a style out of that then for a category in the styles panel.

[patamystic]

On 2/14/2020 at 12:40 PM, v_kyr said:

The online help also tells a little bit about the usage of ...

• Styles
• Styles panel

The creation of styles and their usability are available in all actual Affinity apps and the online help of the coresponding Affinity apps should at least tell some basics for those. Note however that you will need a vector shape (form), which you then fill and adjust with a gradient bitmap, in order to generate/build a style out of that then for a category in the styles panel.

Helpful. Thanks.