Smudge help.

[Xiu]

Hai!

Everytime i try to smudge something it fails. I follow tutorials, i do what it tells me to do and i don't even get close to their result.
I'm trying to follow the Assassins Creed sig tutorial atm, his result looks like this:


When i try to smudge for some reason it won't really go far, only about 10-20 pixels out of the thing i'm smudging.
I just messed around untill i end up with this:


My main problem is that all my colors are gone, i'm always left with a grey mess.

Any clue where i'm going wrong?

[van Zeben]

your smudging wayyy too much, leave it how the top image is, set the blending options and move on to the next one. Dont think too much about it, its only smudging. And remember you can always go back and redo if you dont like it

[Xiu]

leave it how the top image is, set the blending options and move on to the next one.

Blending options? D=
Problem is it's either something like that or with big gaps in it =/

[van Zeben]

Blending options? D=
Problem is it's either something like that or with big gaps in it =/

those are blending options... im assuming your doing a tut that requires many duplicates of the render and you smudge each one and then blend it into the bg......

post a link for the tut your using and you might get some better help

[Xiu]

Oh like that, ye i know what blending options are lol, just didn't understand cuz there's nothing about blending in this tut ^^

http://www.gfxvoid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52886

[van Zeben]

try some different smudge settings... and add the render smudge as you have, add it in again smudge again until you get the desired effect

[Xiu]

Well i'm using his settings, but nobody can tell me what brush he's using.

Just 1 thing, i like how he has the right side brown, any tip on doing that?

[van Zeben]

gradient map?
tbh im not completely sure what your talking about

[Xiu]

Nvm i'll just mess around till i get it.

Thanks alot, greatly appreciated ^^

[Xelo]

Well i'm using his settings, but nobody can tell me what brush he's using.

Just 1 thing, i like how he has the right side brown, any tip on doing that?

yeh. look at the render. it is big! paste in the render, don't reseize it, move the brown parts into your sig and smudge that...

then when you are happy paste in the render on a new layer and reseize it to your liking and place it where it fits your bg.