Title: Basic Blending/Gradient Signature
Description: For Photoshop/ Photoshop Elements
Description: For Photoshop/ Photoshop Elements
Jounin Elite - March 7, 2006 11:20 PM (GMT)
Ok, so yeah. That title was pretty self-explanatory. I'm not gonna post pics with this tutorial, because it's pretty straightforward, and I'm feeling really lazy :P.
1. Open Photoshop, and create a new document with dimensions 500x150 (or whatever you like).
2. Choose your two main colors of the background by clicking each of them and clicking on a color you like. If you want a dark colored sig, just leave them at black and white.
3. Click the gradient tool, and on the line that has your gradient preferences, change the blending options to difference.
4. Go crazy. Make, like, 20 or so gradients on this layer.
5. Go to the filter menu, then to distort, and then warp. Click ok.
6. Duplicate that layer a few times, and on each one, randomize the warp option. For each layer that you made under your background, go to your layer organizer, and change the blending options or opacity to whatever you think looks good. Generally, I like to use Soft Light or Overlay at 100% opacity.
7. You may as well merge those layers now. If you left your gradients as black and white, and want to change the colors, press ctrl+u. Check the box that says coloize, and fiddle with the hue, saturation, and lightness bars.
8. Open the image you want to use in your sig (assuming there is one).
9. Resize the image if you want to, and then copy and paste it into your sig. If you want to move it around, click the tool on the left menu that has a mouse and a small "plus sign-like" thing under it. Use that to move it around your sig.
10. Once you are satisfied with your image placement, go to the lasso tool. Set the feather option thing to 15 px. Select a circle/oval of any size somewhere on the pasted image's border. Delete the selection, and you have a partly faded section of the image. Do that in any place you think looks good.
11. When you are satisfied with that, make some text (optional).
Here's what I got:
Hope you liked this, post some results if you use it!
-JE-
1. Open Photoshop, and create a new document with dimensions 500x150 (or whatever you like).
2. Choose your two main colors of the background by clicking each of them and clicking on a color you like. If you want a dark colored sig, just leave them at black and white.
3. Click the gradient tool, and on the line that has your gradient preferences, change the blending options to difference.
4. Go crazy. Make, like, 20 or so gradients on this layer.
5. Go to the filter menu, then to distort, and then warp. Click ok.
6. Duplicate that layer a few times, and on each one, randomize the warp option. For each layer that you made under your background, go to your layer organizer, and change the blending options or opacity to whatever you think looks good. Generally, I like to use Soft Light or Overlay at 100% opacity.
7. You may as well merge those layers now. If you left your gradients as black and white, and want to change the colors, press ctrl+u. Check the box that says coloize, and fiddle with the hue, saturation, and lightness bars.
8. Open the image you want to use in your sig (assuming there is one).
9. Resize the image if you want to, and then copy and paste it into your sig. If you want to move it around, click the tool on the left menu that has a mouse and a small "plus sign-like" thing under it. Use that to move it around your sig.
10. Once you are satisfied with your image placement, go to the lasso tool. Set the feather option thing to 15 px. Select a circle/oval of any size somewhere on the pasted image's border. Delete the selection, and you have a partly faded section of the image. Do that in any place you think looks good.
11. When you are satisfied with that, make some text (optional).
Here's what I got:
Hope you liked this, post some results if you use it!
-JE-
FeNdErHeAd - June 27, 2006 10:57 PM (GMT)
its good
Dark Telepath - July 26, 2006 10:39 AM (GMT)
Is it Adobe Photoshop?
Shadow Knight - August 22, 2006 08:08 PM (GMT)
Very long but very nice!
SMOS - August 23, 2006 05:03 PM (GMT)
Hey, JE, this doesn't work for CS2. Can ya help me here?
Jounin Elite - August 23, 2006 07:14 PM (GMT)
It has to work for cs2 lol. If it works for elements 4.0, it works for cs2 :P.
-JE-
-JE-
Sky - February 26, 2007 02:00 AM (GMT)
That's what I got.
Zeus - September 22, 2007 11:56 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE |
| 7. You may as well merge those layers now. If you left your gradients as black and white, and want to change the colors, press ctrl+u. Check the box that says coloize, and fiddle with the hue, saturation, and lightness bars. |
How you can merge the layers into one? o.0
P.s. Awesome Tutorial ^_^
Jounin Elite - September 23, 2007 12:16 AM (GMT)
If you press ctrl+e, that should merge the layer selected and the layer below it. Do that as many times as necessary.
-JE-
-JE-