How do I create such an effect in Photoshop CS6?

Question

Hi All,
I am not a big expert in Photoshop, but I know how to use it. I hope I have chosen the correct community for this question.
I want to create a design similar to something I have found in the internet. I have an image with a white background and a black graphic on top of it.
How can I get a similar result as you can see in this image?
Which filters do I need? What are the steps?
Or do you have a link to a tutorial on the internet, where the steps are described?
Or are there any actions available I could load for free?
Many thanks and regards,
Heiko

Answer 1

Hi,
either I am not getting the point or there us something missing in your description. Sorry, if I am to stupid for that.
Let me repeat what I have done:
1) I have one layer with a transparent background and my graphic on it (brown color).
2) I add a new layer and fill it with black.
3) I do Filter > Noise > Add noise - Use Gaussian and push the amount all the way to the right. (Now I have many different colors there.
4) We need to use Levels, but as it stands there are no grey tones to work on.  Just full black, and full white, so go Filter > Blur > Blur more to add a tiny amount of blur.
5) Now we can use levels (Ctrl+L).  We want to push the black slider most of the way to the right, and left slider to the left until it almost meets the black slider. Our aim is to reduce the amount of white specks until looks something like this:
6) We use Free Transform to expand this layer and make the white specks more spaced out.
7) Now we'll make an alpha channel from the noise layer.  Just go to the Channels panel, and drag any of the channels (Where is the new channel icon? And which channel do I have to drag?) to the new Channel icon at the bottom of the panel.
8) Select your graphic layer, and go Select > Load selection, and choose the new channel you made earlier. (This is telling me, that I don't have selected any pixels.)
Rest does not work because of something which is missing above.
• With the graphic layer selected you could just hit the Delete key to know out the white noise. (This deletes the entire graphic!)
• Or you could add a layer filled with white above the graphic layer, and with the noise selection active, add a layer mask to the white layer. (I do not really understand this :-( )
• Or just use your noise layer and set it to Overlay. (Does not work because of an error in a previous step.)
Could you please tell me where I do something wrong or have a misunderstanding?
Thanks and regards,
Heiko