1. First open up a new document and chose whatever size you want. I like 320x100. 2. then get out the render u wanna use. 3. next take 2 good colours from that render and make the background gradient with them. 4. Now duplicate your render layer, you should have 2 render layers. 5. Now get out your X brush that i have provided for you at the bottom. 6. Add these settings to the brush and make sure your size is on 20px. 7. Now take ur smudge tool choose your X brush and with those settings start smudging around until you get something like this. 8. Now take your unsmudged layer and put it on top. 9. Then make a brightness contrast layer on top of everything. i used -10 brightness and +15 contrast. 10. then add text and boarder and sharpen the whole sig and then yay u made a nice smudge sig. Final Result: X brush: http://rapidshare.de/files/6035782/Xbrush.abr.html PLZ dont rip i dont have any anti ripping on this cause i forgot but oh well.
Good tut, i always wanted to know how to do good smudging, but i have to make my own additions to suit it for my liking GJ though
