Welcome, in this tut im gonna show you how to make a great sig background or you may want to use it as a sig without a render. Before we start, i will be using Dooms abstract brushes and Metal Cx's fractal brushes. lets get started. before we start, im going to tell you people im on ME so i dont have to listen it. heres a link to the brushes http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17367663/ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17463264/ we will be making a background or a sig whichever you please that will look like this. 1. start by making a new sig, 350-120. 2. fill the background with black. 3. pull out one of metals fractal brushes, only use it once, make sure its white. 4. make a new layer, and pull out dooms abstract brushes. start in the corners first.
5. keep brushing on the same layer, it should look something like mine. 6. go to layer, new adjustment layer, levels. 7. adjust the settings similar to mine, this will give the sig immediate depth. 8. time to add some color, for the midtones, make the cyan and blue 100%, highlights blue 30%, shadows cyan 30%, once your done, go to filter render clouds on the color balance layer.
9. make another color balance layer and add these settings, midtones red 50% yellow 50%, highlights yellow 30%, shadows red 30%, now go to filter render clouds on this colorbalance layer. 10. go to layer, new adjustment layer, brightness/contrast. apply these settings 11. now time to add a nice effect, go to layer flatten image. 12. duplicate your background layer. on the duplicated layer go to filter blur gaussin blur and set the radius to 2.0, set the blending options to lighten. 13. now just press Ctrl+A and go to edit stroke 1 px and the color of your choice for the border, add some text and your done. 14. hope you learned how to create an easy yet effective background or renderless sig.
i have em posted at the top, here they are if you missed em http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17367663/ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17463264/
Very nice tut. Will be sure to mess with it a little. this is what I made with it so far. Didn't use the brushes you mentioned.
My Result: thx for the great tut...this is the first sig that look way better then my other ones, +rep
ok, so, this took me ages(like 25 mins <_<) cos I dont know where half the buttons are.... I just dont get how if I do what u say, I end up with all one colour <_< I really want to not suck, but its not making it easy for me (I put in a screen just incase u can see any mistakes I made)
