Here is how i made the grungy background text:
First i wanted to add some plates to the BG in a creamy color with orange, but that was too much with the red....
The BG is red #a10000 with square scanlines 8x8 on 'Grain Merge' mode 23%.
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The big text is a font called 'ARB 08 Extreme Roman', 580px, spacing -15.
![Image](http://www.gimpchat.com/files/2051_Base%20Grunge%20ESP.png)
Then added noise with samj's 'Test Noise' filter - Scale: 4 and Type: Uniform.
![Image](http://www.gimpchat.com/files/2051_SAMJNoise.jpg)
Then Distorted the selection with something like Spread: 4, invert, align with the Move Tool (on Selection), Grow by 1, Invert and Cut.
Noise → Spread: 5
![Image](http://www.gimpchat.com/files/2051_Warp%20+%20Noise%20ESP.jpg)
Add a white layermask.
For the scratches i used a scratches brush i made myself from this tutorial (link suggested by he4rty):
http://www.squaregear.net/gimptips/worn.shtml(its attached to this post for you to use)
![Image](http://www.gimpchat.com/download/file.php?id=7003)
at an angle of 45° and sometimes with a brush dynamique that randomly rotates the angle.
![Image](http://www.gimpchat.com/files/2051_Scratches%20ESP.jpg)
To make it look more faded i used a technique from a video-tip i got from Draconian:
http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photos ... -textures/you add more grunge to your layermask, to get rid of parts of the color.
So alpha select your text and paint on the layermask with a grunge brush in grey (#595959), but set down the opacity to 30% and maybe add a random angle dynamic.
Repeat the same with different grunge brushes and black, but only sparsely.
![Image](http://www.gimpchat.com/files/2051_Grunge%20ESP.jpg)
And finally i played with the Saturation and tweaked everything.
I used the layer on 'Multiply' that but that depends on your picture you want to make.
![Image](http://www.gimpchat.com/files/2051_Grunge%20final%20ESP.jpg)