This tutorial will teach you how to use brushes and pixel stretching with a variety of other techniques. My previous tut is at http://forum.myriafx.com/viewtopic.php?t=282.

This is the site where I downloaded the brushes that I’m going to use. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17112056/.
The render is from http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7677/ruby8kh.jpg
Load the brushes by pasting the .abr file to PhotoShop > Presets > Brushes folder. When in PhotoShop, press the brushes tab on the top right corner and press the little arrow when it’s selected. Go to Preset Manager and load the brushes.



1. Make a new document, 300x150 and create a new layer, make sure to fill the new layer with white before you continue.



2. Press D to reset your colours. Select one of brushes and starting brushing. STAMP THE BRUSH AND NEVER USE THE SAME ONE TWICE, DON’T OVERLAP THEM TOO MUCH AND COVER THE WHOLE SIG. That’s basically the art of brushing. When you’ve covered the sig with black brushing, press ctrl + I to invert the colours and start again!

After a few time of inverting the colours and stamping, you should end up with something like this.



3. Now paste the render in, select your magic eraser and start clicking on the white bits to get rid of them, alternating eraser and move tool by pressing E and V. Resize your render by going Edit > Free transform and holding down shift while dragging one of the corners. Place it in a good spot and duplicate it 3 times, Layer > Duplicate Layer, making 4 render layers. Move the bottom 3 render to random spots and so it covers your whole sig



Now set each of the duplicated render to soft light and 50% opacity.



Now for the pixel stretching, duplicate your render layer and get out your single column marquee tool. Make a selection where your think the colours look the brightest and best. Press ctrl + t and press the middle square to stretch to the edge of the selection, going both ways.



Set that layer to colour dodge, 50% opacity and put it under your render layer.



Now your just basically improving the sig with a border, scan lines, enhancing the render and playing with the brightness and colours.
Duplicate your render layer twice, Layer > Duplicate Layer. With the top layer go Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set it to 3 pixels. Then go Edit > Fade Gaussian blur and set it to screen 60%, this just lightens up the render. Select the bottom render and go Filter > Blur > Motion blur and set it to 34pixels, this blends in your render.



Add a border by creating a new layer, and going ctrl + A, M, right click the selection and press stroke, set it to 3pixel black, centre, normal. Deselect and reselect the layer again, follow the same steps although this time set it to 2pixel, white. Deselect and reselect the layer again, follow the same steps although this time set it to 1pixel, black. You should have a thick black line going around your sig, now just set that layer to overlay and you should have something like this. This is a great border technique that you can use on all your sigs.



By now you should have a variety of patterns like the scan lines I taught you how to make in my previous tut.



You can make these patterns easily as well. For my sig I used the one with the black and grey square pattern.
Make a new layer and put it under your render layers, press the bucket tool and select pattern from the drop down on the toolbar above, select whatever pattern you like and fill your sig with it. Set it to soft light, 35% opacity.



As you see the sig is a bit dark, duplicate your background, set it to 50% opacity and on Linear dodge, that should lighten things up a bit.



Now add some text, get your favourite font, and type your name or Ruby in (the ATI girl’s name) you can download fonts from http://www.fonts.com/. Search the site for instructions on font installation.



Now right click the txt layer and click Blending options, and set it to what I have below







This is what I got after I made the text bigger and moved it to a better spot. I also added outer glow to the render, using the same set up as the texts outer glow.

And a blood effect, which is really just a wind effect. Duplicate the text layer and rasterize it, right click the text layer in the layer panel and click rasterize layer. Go Edit > Transform > rotate 90degrees CW. Then go Filter > Stylize > Wind and set it to coming for the right, wind. Press ok, rotate the text back and place it under the normal text, simple!



You’ve finished! I just lightened mine up a bit by creating a new layer just above the background layer, getting a brush opacity 20% and just stamping it all over the place.
Hope you had fun learning a whole range of new techniques in one tut!

Thats pretty good. Nice work.

yeah, i removed the topic you made w/o pictures, there is no point "announcing" the arival of a tutorial, just post it, so please don't do that again

Also, why don't you try to come up with a better more creative title that explains what you're doing more.

yeh sorry that was gay about the coming soon thing. maybe i should change the title to 'make another sig with no previous ps experience'?

The way it is written now, is fine.

yup, it's good now

great tut

40x40 gif and jpg icon

Ive submitted it to pslover with a .jpeg, although here they are anyway

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.gif

edit the pslover stuff

dont' submit next time, until i move it to the photoshop section

i submitted it when it was in the photoshop section. if i submitted it when it was in the submission thread and then you moved it then the link would be bad.

this is a great tut, but one small problem. I am tryin to figure out how to make the screen you used in this one, and cant find it on your other tut. How do i set up my window? 7x7? 6x6? 5x5?

This is a grand tutorial.


Except on the part you make the text. It looks pretty nasty on my sigs.

:O go to File > New and set it to 7x7 or 6x6 or 5x5...

Im a newbie in photoshop... what i did is just followed your intructions step by step including the pic (LOL) and look what i did... Btw this is my first sig... need a comment to improve it will....

...i played a bit more but i think its well done

...by the way, VERY NICE tut, thanks

everytime i forget a border ^^

Pomo I dont find your result so good. But its good effort.

Sry pomo but i dont like it.... =(

btw Pomo means in our country Boss...

Pomo=Boss

wow really nice tutorial. very organized too

This is the very tut that tought me how to use photoshop... Thanks !!

ohhh and taught rhymes with fought...