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| Zero Hawkins | Aug 13 2006, 01:01 PM Post #1 |
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Tutorial Name: Simple full signature tutorial Tutorial Description: Show's how to make a simple and good looking signature. Program: Adobe Photoshop 7+ Tutorial: In this tutorial I will show you how to make a signature like this: ![]() Resources used in this tutorial: Dark Crystal Script Font Rust and Grunge Brushes Link Render Brushing the background 1) Create a new canvas (I used 340x120) 2) Fill the background layer with black ![]() 3) Load your brushes 4) Set your foreground to white 5) Create a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) 6) Brush the background white until it covers the whole canvas, just don't overlap to much ![]() 7) Create a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) 8) Keep switching back and forth between black and white over the parts appropiate, (ex. if its to dark click once with white, if its to light click once with black over it) ![]() 9) Change the layer Fill Opacity 10) Merge the layers so its all in the background layer Adding Color 11) Create a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) and put it on top 12) Fill the layer with the color you want to use, I'm using #007236 13) Change the layer to Soft Light ![]() 14) Now to even out the signatures brightness and darkness out. If your signature is still really dark or really light in places, make a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) above the background layer and repeat steps 8 and 9. Once you get it to look good, merge the layer down with the background. ![]() 15) You can merge all the layers now Adding the render (Image) 16) Open the render you want in photoshop (You can find renders at http://www.planetrenders.net ) 17) Drag the render onto the background you just made 18) Delete the background, preferbly using the magic wand tool Before: ![]() After: ![]() 19) Resize the render to the size you want by using Transform (CTRL+T) and drag the corners, press SHIFT while dragging to keep the image the same height and width Modifying the render 20) Duplicate the render layer (CTRL+J) ![]() 21) With the bottom render layer selected, go to "Filter > Blur > Motion Blur" and put the settings at something around 36 for distance and you decide on the direction depending on where your render is. I used 29, click OK 22) Now some of the border may have been affected by the blur because all the background wasn't taken off, if so just delete the extra's Before: ![]() After: ![]() 23) Merge the 2 render layers (CTRL+E on the top render layer) 24) Change the render layer to Luminosity ![]() 25) If you need to move the render somewhere, do it now. Note: You should have 2 layers now, 1 for the background and one for the render Adding Text - Probaly the hardest part alone when making a singature 26) Select the text tool and click where you want your text to be, type in whatever you want 27) Edit the font and size for the text to whatever you want (I am using "Dark Crystal Script" and a font size of 32) ![]() 28) Double click the text layer to open the blending options setting 29) Here's the settings I used Drop Shadow Color Overlay Stroke 30) Move the text if you don't like where it is Adding a border 31) Reset the foreground and background (D) 32) Create a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) 33) Press (CTRL+A) 34) Edit > Stroke, these settings 35) Same settings except a width of 2px and white as the color 36) Same settings except a width of 1px and black as the color 37) If you want, change the blending options to overlay or soft light (I left mine as normal for this one) Saving 38) I'd save tfhe graphic as a PSD incase you need to change text or something and / or 39) Save it as a .jpg and use the default Quality settings Ending result: ![]() This tutorial was made by Slay from A Knight's Tales ( http://www.aknightstales.com ) and you are allowed to repost as long as you give me credit. If you used this tutorial, please post your results, I'd like to see if this tutorial was worth making and if it helped people. |
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| Darius Dellso | Aug 13 2006, 03:28 PM Post #2 |
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Thank You! Your tutorial has been moved to the Completed Tutorial Section! |
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| Kife | Aug 16 2006, 12:09 AM Post #3 |
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Super nice tut Slay! |
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| Zero Hawkins | Aug 16 2006, 07:14 AM Post #4 |
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Thanks |
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| Felian Darkheart | Nov 7 2006, 03:16 PM Post #5 |
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Would u be able to make the links and pictures work please.... |
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| Zero Hawkins | Nov 7 2006, 06:10 PM Post #6 |
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I'm not sure if I still have them, I'll check.Edit: I managed to find them and re-upload them, images work now. |
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| Mazo T'arcona | Nov 9 2006, 10:47 PM Post #7 |
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Now I'm really upset. All of you have Photoshop! How do you afford it! It's likle....$100-$600!!!
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| Zero Hawkins | Nov 10 2006, 12:40 AM Post #8 |
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lol, I didn't pay for it.
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| Darius Dellso | Nov 10 2006, 10:25 AM Post #9 |
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lol, me niether.
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| Mazo T'arcona | Nov 10 2006, 12:31 PM Post #10 |
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I feel so...untalented!
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| Darth Kracken | Nov 17 2006, 10:23 AM Post #11 |
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Well, here is what I came up with.![]() And this... ![]() I would love to have some ideas for improvement. Darth Kracken |
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| Relik | Nov 17 2006, 12:32 PM Post #12 |
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Nice, Kracken. Where's a safe place to DL photoshop, guys? |
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| Zero Hawkins | Nov 17 2006, 12:38 PM Post #13 |
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Nice job Kracken. On thef first one it looks pretty good except the render could have been better so it doesn't have such an empty look in it. Text seems a bit big as well. I like the second one, nice brushed background, good sized render but once again I think you made the text to big. Sometimes what I like to do for taking up more room in a signature so its not so empty is to put the render at an angle to take up more room. Samples: ![]() ![]()
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| Darius Dellso | Nov 17 2006, 08:22 PM Post #14 |
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You can get a safe version from adobe.com |
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| Relik | Nov 17 2006, 08:28 PM Post #15 |
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I mean a FULL version. No trial. I know they're out there. |
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I'm not sure if I still have them, I'll check.
Now I'm really upset.







8:29 AM Jul 11