Graffiti Sig

This is my first tut, so any comments, criticism, etc. is welcome...
And sorry 'bout the no screencaps thing. I sorta forgot to do that.....:(

OK, first create a new document, 400x150 or whatever size you want you sig to be. Then FILTER>>RENDER>>CLOUDS. Redo till you're happy with your clouds.
Next, FILTER>>STYLIZE>>WIND. Change the method to BLAST, and apply it once EACH from the right and the left. This step is VERY important!!

Then FILTER>>DISTORT>>TWIRL. Amount=160 or so...

Press ctrl+B to bring up colour balance. Change the values to 0, 20, 100. Then duplicate your layer, change the mode to lighten, and merge the two layers. ctrl+B again, insert values of 0, 40, 100. Merge again.

Duplicate your layer again. Go to FILTER>>DISTORT>>WAVE. Default settings are fine, just change TYPE to SQUARE. Another important step. Set this distorted layers mode to DIFFERENCE.

Looks neat, eh?

Now you've got your wall. It looks pretty good by itself, but lets add some text...

I suggest you use Comic Sans MS here. Anyways, take a dark shade of the colour you wanna use, and give it a 2px stroke of a lighter color. Duplicate the layer. On the LOWER layer, do a FILTER>>DISTORT>>RIPPLE of amount 999 and size medium. Do this twice.

There you go!! Play around with the blurs to get something you like!

TIP: Transform the text a bit, and put multiple slogans/words/etc. Experiment! ;)

Hope the tutorial proved to be of some help...and sorry about the screencap thing once again! :unsure:

nice :D

And another effect would be merging all layers into the background. Then FILTER>>TEXTURE>>TEXTURIZER. Brick with default settings but keep the lighting direction as TOP LEFT :D

:) nice m8

By reading the tut it could be pretty good but could u post a result ?

Oh yeah, sorry about that..........
http://img327.imageshack.us/img327/1...tkrt45r7nx.jpg

nice but it would be better if u added some lens glare :lol:

ANtidote

firstly id advise to people who want to create this affect that you download a good graffiti font else it'll just look lame, but otherwise pretty nice effect.

nice tut!

short and good tut

Hehehe :D Looks great :D

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Originally posted by HolyStar@August 03 2005, 10:06 AM


Looks neat, eh?

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YES YES YES I think this brick wall is awsome.
It looks so realistic...props on that.

here is my wall:
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1...ickwall9xx.jpg

I dont rember if you said to use Filter>Texture>texturizer>and set to brick
although I guess that was obvious.

But I am not fond of the text at all.
And If you wanted it to look more like graffiti
I would draw the text (better if u have a pen).
I guess the wall looks so real but the paint looks so fake
that it does not fit.

cool :)

Nice!

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This is something extra that imporves your end result.
1. Hand draw the text with the pen tool.

http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/9...ed28tl1.th.jpg

Make Sure it jaggedy and rough looking. Then do your stroke/ripple stuff (see main tut)
http://img314.imageshack.us/img314/4...led25ln.th.jpg
Then duplicate your text layer. FILTER>>WAVE, style square. Randomize till u get something you like.

Change the Layer Mode to whatever looks good. Colour Brun looks great with green text. Experiment!

http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/4...led25sw.th.jpg

Last Note: There are tons of ways to make more Graffit-ish text. Look at different tuts, figure out ways yourself, and you'll get something you like. If you want, try putting those blocthy pics of people for a nice poster. Hope this came in handy!

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...tt_/sigtut.jpg

I don&#39;t know if mine came out right. =< I tried though&#33;

plz post at least a finished pic

Check post #6 . . . . .

mine turned out horrible... gotta learn photoshop more... I use to be so good... dam