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Dagger's Sig Tutorial #1


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#1 kurupted

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Posted 20 September 2005 - 12:10 AM

Well guys i wanted to give you this gift from me to you a bit early :P anyway here it is, straight out of the oven :haha: Ohh and remember, if you post this somewhere else under your name I will personally see to it that Michael Jackson rapes you.


1.Well first start off with a 400x125 blank document with a white background.
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2. Now create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N or press the new layer button in your layers box) called BG or anything else.
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3. Once you have done that your Photoshop window should look like this.
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4. Now download some brushes, I used Metal-CX's Chaotic Abstract Brushes (available at http://www.deviantar...ation/19548105/) and start to brush with the settings onscreen settings.
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5. Brush again but with a different brush from the brushpack.
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6. After a little bit of brushing your sig should look like this.
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7. Now make a new layer called Gradient or whatever you want to call it :P
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8. Now your Photoshop window should look like this.
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9. Now open up your gradient box and pick two pastel colours that aren't too dark (The colours i picked can be seen in the screenshot)
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10. Now draw a normal gradient in any direction but making it evenly centered.
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11. Doesn't look too nice does it? :haha:
http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/3112/114nc.th.jpg

12. Now set the gradient layers layer mode to Colour Burn and... tada!
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6614/122tp.th.jpg

13. Now onto making a 1337 border! Make a new layer called border or whatever ;)
http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/1740/139ba.th.jpg

14. After making the layer your Photoshop window should look like this.
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/3492/140bn.th.jpg

15. Now press Ctrl+A then go to Edit then go to stroke and use the following settings.
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/9757/156xo.th.jpg

16. Do stroke again with the following settings.
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/204/164je.th.jpg

17. Do stroke for a final time with these settings.
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8606/176al.th.jpg

18. Now deselect by pressing Ctrl+D then set the Borders layer mode to Soft Light.
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/875/185xe.th.jpg

19. Now onto the render, heres the render i picked. Copy it onto your sig.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/3802/197zu.th.jpg

20. Once the render is on your sig use Free Transform (Ctrl+T) so you can resize it and move it into where you want it to be.
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/7814/204jl.th.jpg

21. Now I just moved the render behind the Gradient layer and I'm finished!
http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/4025/215zr.th.jpg

Thanks for reading!

Other helpful links
Dagger's Sig Shop: http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-8026.0
Dagger's Sig Pack: http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-7994.0

Ohh and I need someone to host the .PSD for me if they could :)





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