Okay guys heres my first tutorial. Step 1: Make a blank file, size 300x110, , and fill it with white. Get out your grunge brushes(I used stalemateisgod): Step 2: Do the brushing part in Step 1 again, if it gets too dark, use white to darken it down. Step 3: Take your render, I will be using this: Select it and paste it on, use the magic wand or Magic Eraser tool to get rid of the background at the render. Step 4: On your render layer, use your lasso tool and do a rough sketch of the inside of your render, then press New Layer Mask(has a black rectangle around it in the next screen): http://img167.exs.cx/img167/7657/44cw.png Step 5: After blending it, make a new Color Balance layer(the little half black half white pie icon , next to the folder icon in the Layers panel) The colors I used are: Midtones: -50,+62,+75 Shadows: +21,-36,+2 Highlights: -54,+2,+37 (Tick Preserve Lumionisty) After that, make another color balance layer, and use the following settings: Midtones: -100,-38,-31 Shadows: +57,0,+43 Highlights: -100,0,-100 (Dont tick Preserve Lumionisty) After that, go to Filter>Render>Clouds on each CB layer, until you find something you like, this was my result: Ok, now its looking alright so far, but its not finishd yet. Step 6: Pick some of your abstract brushes, and make a new layer UNDER the CB layers(I used Wildwolf 11), set the layer to Overlay or Soft Light, and do some brushing on the layer to your liking: Try mixing white and black. Step 7: Your sig looks alright now, but its missing one thing:Text. The font I used is Ast126, size 24, and Antialias set to Smooth. I made it white. Now set the following blending options: Drop Shadow - Default Inner Shadow - 60% opacity Gradient Overlay - Default Stroke - 1px Black Stroke Now put it under your CB layers. Underneath, add a quote and give it a 1 px stroke, I used the font Ariel at size 10 or 11, with Anti-alias set to none. Or you can use a font like Visitor at size 6-12. Satep 8: Add a new layer ABOVE all others, then go to Select>All, then Edit>Stroke, make it a 3PX black stroke, do it again but make it a 2 PX White, then do it again but a 1 PX Black. You should have a nice border, but it dosent look quite right, I used the magic wand tool on the white and deleted it to give it a transparent feel, or you can set it to Overlay. Its your choice: Well done, your finished. But, as a little extra, merge all your layers, then duplicate the layer(CTRL+J), go to Filter> Blur > Gaussian Blur, make it a 2.5 blur, and set the dupe layer to Overlay or Hard Light ,this really ups the sigs colors and it is a good effect. Thanks for reading . P.S Sorry if it says UPI a lot, its cause Imageshack sucks.
Not bad for newbies, some of the stuff is self explanatory, but its better to have too much detail than not enough
shouldve lowered the opacity for the Overlayed final layer, gives more depth but overall great sig for a first
