Full Signature Tutorial, Something I Remembered How To Do

[Sasuke]

Haha! My first Photoshop Signature Tutorial! Well I hope you all like it, well here we go!

1st Step: Find yourself a render, it can be anything as long as it has a transparent or bright green backgropund so that you can easily remove the picture. I made the one I'm using in this tutorial. See Below For My Render.

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2nd Step: Now open a new document; sized 410x150.

3rd Step: Paste your render into it. (Resize if neccessary by hitting CTRL+T, and then while holding SHIFT drag out from one of the corners)

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4th Step: Duplicate the Render Layer and hide one of them, it doesn't matter which one is hidden.

5th Step: Take the unhidden Render Layer and give it a Gaussian Blur with the settings below.

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6th Step: Duplicate the Blurred Render Layer, a few times, and move them about to cover the background. Duplicate the Blurred Render Layer as many times as needed. Here's my result.

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7th Step: Create a New Layer. Now select two colors from your render, and any of your favourite brushes. Now RANDOMLY brush on the new layer until you like how it looks. Now set the layer to HARD LIGHT.

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8th Step: Take the untouched Render layer and move it ABOVE all of the other layers in the Layer Panel. Duplicate it and hide the bottom one of the two.

9th Step: Choose your Smudge Tool (the one with the Finger as the icon), and choose a 13 px maple leaf brush with these settings.

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Now smudge out from the edges 'till it looks something like this.

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10th Step: Now unhide the one you hid up in step 8. Take a soft, round brush and erase the edges slightly. So it looks almost like this.

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11th Step: Create a New Document. (File>New) Make this document 2x2 and make sure it has a Transparent Background.

12th Step: Take the PENCIL TOOL (It's in with the brush tool), zoom in real close, and make make it look like this.

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13th Step: Go to Edit>Define Pattern and save it as whatever you wanna name it.

14th Step: Go back to your signature. Create a new layer. Now with the brushes from before, randomly brush the layer with white (I myself used a completely different brush, you can too if you want). Next go to Blending Options, and give the layer a Pattern Overlay with these settings.

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Now set the layer itself on OVERLAY, and it should kinda look like this.

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15th Step: Now for the text! Choose a good font, I used Arial Black for this one. Give the signature some text. Now, duplicate it and hide the copy. Now we're going to rasterize the original. (Layer>Rasterize>Type). Next take the smudge tool with the same brush and settings from Step 9, and smudge the outside of the text. It should come out like this. (You won't see it very well in the picture below because of the colors I used.)

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16th Step: Now unhide the text copy. Next give it an OUTER GLOW with the following Settings.

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Now set that Layer to OVERLAY.

Final Step: Now create a new layer. Hit CTRL+A to select all. Now go to Edit>Stroke. You're going to stroke the layer THREE times with the next set of settings.

1st Stroke
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2nd Stroke
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3rd Stroke
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And now it should look like this.

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There you have it folks, my first Tutorial.

I hope you guys enjoyed it, and I would love to see you guys use this one.

Also if anyone has any questions at all, don't be afraid to ask, I'm willing to help as best I can.

Anyways, I'll talk to you all later! Bye!

~Sasuke