Basic Sig Tutorial With Photoshop

[amc 0]

Ok this is my first tutorial like this. Here goes:

With AMC's Forum Signature Tutorial you can make uber cool sigs!

 

Matierals Needed:

1) Photoshop.

 

2) Half a brain. That's right half a brain, if you have a whole brain, then go to a neurologist right this minute.

 

3) Some descent custom brushes. You can get these brushes from http://www.deviantart.com/

 

Now, let us begin.

 

Create a new document 350px x 150px with a white background.

 

Fill the white background with black.

 

Use a few custom brushes (abstract fractal and grunge are my fav.) on a new layer. With the foreground color set to white, and a 50% brush opacity. Tip: Try switching between black and white and adding multiple layers to get an even better result. I got this as a result:

 

Now its time to add some color, go to Layer, New Adjustment Layer, Color Balance, then move the arrows up and down til u find a color you like I used the following combination in the midtones section +100 +18 -72.

I ended up with the following:

 

Now its time to add a render to you sig. Pick out a render you like from a render site (here's mine):

and then copy and paste the part of the render you want to add to your sig using the rectangular selection tool.

 

Next, you'll want to select some kind of selection tool, then right click (while your new render layer is selected) on a part of your render and then click free transform. Constrain your render to fit your sig to your liking. I got the following:

 

Now we blend the render into the sig. The way I go about this is by getting out a custom abstract or grunge brush and start brushing the edges and whatnot of the render layer. I ended up with this:

 

Now that you have a nice clean render and background, try putting the render layer under the color adjustment layer (sometimes it looks better, sometimes it doesnt)

 

Add some text with a font of your choice, I used "Mael" at 18 pt, and got this result:

 

Now comes a very important part of adding text. Blending options. If you don't know how to get to blending options, simply right click your layer and go to blending options. Play with these options till you get something that you think blends with your sig. I used the following on default (Except for stroke which I set to 1px, and I changed the colors around a little.):

Now, finally you are done. If you wish to add multicolor or a pixel-stretch background, how to blend renders in other ways or more tutorials visit my forum or keep looking on Des's cause I'm getting very active. Look for more soon!

~AMC

PS. DO NOT RIP!!!

[Ridwan sameer 0]

Nice tut dude. Good for beginners like me i am still working on y first sig i hope it comes nicely