post all helpfull tips here. use pentool for rendering if you had any experience with the pentol before For a cool grunge effect on people (Preferably psd's) Open a psd Make a new layer Click CTRL and click the psd layer this should make a selection around it find some grunge brushes and make them white brush (it shud be on render) set blending to overlay and deselt this shud make a nece grunge effect on people
HOW TO BECOME PRO IN NO TIME: Leave the downloaded brushes and smudge your backgrounds. HOW TO MAKE BETTER LIGTNING: Never play with the opacity of a lens flare, leave it on 100% TEXT PROBLEM? Try to make a textless sig, don't worry if anyone wanna rip you, if they do it will just mean your work is niice and they are newbs... WHORING: Don't think about whoring! Just do what you think looks niice and don't think about whats trendy or not TUTORIALS: Tutorials are not made so you can copy a style, they are made to tell you about what PS can do. So don't copy the outcome of a tut, play with the style and make it your own...
lighting: brush with any brush (prefferab;ly a 100 pixel soft brush) set the brush opacity to 60 and brush with white or black (if you want the sig darker then black if you want it lighter then white) brush around and set it to overlay
Brushes Brushes are not all that good. Its using some one esles art to create your own. you dont see famous painter's doing that. So keep to default and get alot more praise for what you do. Render Effect For a nice blended effect to your render ctrl click the layer, go to select-feather and pick around 10, youll be sigging in no time.
here's some of mine never use downloaded brushes never ever use lens flare never use the sharpen>sharpen filter; the sharpen tool and smart sharpen / unsharp mask filters work much better too many adjustment layers will destroy quality too many soft light / overlay layers will destroy quality convert your stocks to smart objects (cs2) so you can make them larger again if you wish. layer > smart objects > convert group to smart object use the sponge tool learn layer masks, they're not that hard and shave lots of time off any project
channel mixer: for a nice effect i like to usew the chnnel mixer found when you go to layer>>layer adjustments. its gives a reely nice glows and depth in color
Make Render look better Duplicate the render, and put it underneith the original render now go Filter > Blur > Guassain blur Now select the 1st render, and scroll down on the blending modes and you get great outcomes
kool render effect duplicate ur render filter>>>pixelate>>>fragment drag that below the original render layer and set it to linear dodge
making backgrounds with brushes is old school i see most people sigs are into smudging and then destany type
Quick Rendering Explanation.</span> <span style=\'color:yellow\'>Rite select pen tool make sure its NOT on fill mode but slection mode (next to fill mode), Then zoom in 500x and go round the render, the edge pixels of the render is the best bet, when your done right clikc-make selection, then go about 0.3 - 0.4, then your done. a nice render.
effect- when you almost done with the sig make a new layer and go to image apply image and go to filter brush strokes spatter and set it to lighten opacitu to about 40
