Heavystarch's Full Sig Tutorial

EDIT: I forgot to put Slim...heavystarch is my name on another site i made this for.

The brushes used in this are Metal's Abstract90. I recommend getting some other brushes from Metal too because we all know Metals brushes are some of the best.

Ok this is my first full sig tut so youll have to bear w/ me...ummm im basically going to try and walk you through my way of making sigs.

Well first i almost always start off by making a 330x125 sig and make it a plain black bg.

http://img281.echo.cx/img281/7058/tut10wi.jpg

Then once you have your black bg select and abstract brush you like and get a sorta big brush and make one brush mark on it kinda like this.

http://img286.echo.cx/img286/6776/tut25ez.jpg

Then to give that brush a bit of depth i make some more brush layers on overlay over that one...

http://img75.echo.cx/img75/1728/tut32sg.jpg

Then once you have some depth to the first brush add another white brush. I like to try and leave it still kinda black on the left side, but you dont have to if you dont want to. Heres what the second brush should kinda look like.

http://img270.echo.cx/img270/3922/tut44it.jpg

Then once again add 2 brushing layers on overlay to give this brush some depth. Make one layer white brushing and one black brushing.

http://img236.echo.cx/img236/6329/tut59ci.jpg

You should have something that looks somewhat like this, it will look different depending on what brushes you use.

http://img31.echo.cx/img31/668/tut60fw.jpg

Now its time to add a render. I chose to use this Demon Hunter render from blizards website found here http://www.blizzard.com/inblizz/fanart/Scr...Index=015&Set=0
I just cut the render out and duplicated it and set the second layer to hard light. I like hard light because it tends to give most renders some good immediate depth.

http://img31.echo.cx/img31/6308/tut72gm.jpg

Now to add some color. Make a 2 color balance layers above everything. made one red and one blue. Then on each color balance layer do filter>render>clouds.

http://img65.echo.cx/img65/3024/tut85ls.jpg

Now make 2 more color balance layers, another red one, and a greenish/blue one. Again be sure to filter>render>clouds each of the layers.

http://img65.echo.cx/img65/7803/tut92ot.jpg

Now duplicate your render and set it Linear Burn, and then set it over your color balance layers.

http://img212.echo.cx/img212/9320/tut104wh.jpg

Now with the second 2 colorbalance layers not showing make a merged layers of everything by pressing CTRL+A, CTRL+SHIFT+C, CTRL+V. Then you should have a layer of everything you have done on top. Then i used the burn tool on some places to darken up the edges a bit. You should have something that looks like this now.

http://img212.echo.cx/img212/6783/tut114oj.jpg

Now with all 4 color balance layers selected do the same thing, as before and merge all the layers. Then set that merged layer to color and 35% opacity.

http://img152.echo.cx/img152/2066/tut126ya.jpg

You should have something that looks like this now.

http://img152.echo.cx/img152/4459/tut132as.jpg

Now we can add our text. I used Acens for this one, and set it to bold. Heres what my text looked like.

http://img152.echo.cx/img152/2540/tut145ms.jpg

Now duplicate each text layer and set each one to a horizontal motion blur at around 20, or whatever you think looks best. Remember to set the motion blur layers under the original text.

http://img152.echo.cx/img152/613/tut157nq.jpg

all thats left is the border for this one ill just do a 1 px black border...there are different ways of doing this, i just zoom all the way in and use the pencil tool and go around the edges. If you do this remember to hold shift down while doing this to make strait lines easier.

http://img273.echo.cx/img273/9756/tut165lm.jpg

Heres the final product:

http://img273.echo.cx/img273/6154/tu...product2gl.jpg

Well that pretty muchconcludes my tutorial. I hope you enjoyed it and i hope it helps you. If you feel that i left out a step somewhere along the way just let me know and i will do my best ot include it.

Umm dunno about the content, and good work for the try, but come on dude your way of capturing is almost insulting to dial-uppers. i'd have to wait hours to load all this... you dont need to show us the whole screen again and again.. jus cut the parts we need to see...
whatever, good job that you cared to make a tutorial i guess :}

those are sweet brushes, could you link to them? nice tut, its about abstract, which is what i was waiting for :)

and yeah, those screenshots take forever, crop them down to the neseccary parts.

wow, very nice man, I love the result BTW

That render owns! Nice tut.

nice tut ill give it a try tomorrow

Nice tut and i didnt have a problem loading the images. But then again i have cable. :D

Thats a very good Tut man !!!!

i got adsl and no problem for me neither :D gj on the tut

Nice tut man will help alot of people

Great tut


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nice! but u shudnt have screened the full screen! good final product

thanks guys. This was my first tut ever, and a friend did his this way so i just followed suit ;) Glad you guys like it though. :)

Awesome tut man, I'll be using this for sure! The outcome looks really good. :lol:

Wow...Those aren't brushes, it almost a premade sig... =p lol

Any ways nice tut man. The out come looks pretty nice. =)

Very interesting ! Thanks!

nice result there m8... ill try it for my next sig..ty!

those brushes dont work for PS7? :(

For the border just hit the 'rectangular maquee' tool, ctrl+a, right-click, stroke 1-pixel inside with black

Much easier and faster

But nice tut

That or just hit Shift + Ctrl + E, then go to edit<Stroke. ;)

nice tut slim outcome is nice :D

Very nice tutorial. I&#39;ll try it out soon.

this tut is great

Nice outcome ^_^ Especially the text, yes Metals Brushes are awesome, but let&#39;s not forget Doom and J-A-S-H-I-N :P Anyways, I&#39;ll edit later with result, going for a Marathon here XD

wow love it..will defiently be using it on my next sig ^_^

Thanks. I am going to give this a try.

What the best way to cut a render out of a background?

use the polygon lasso tool :)

very nice tut, i just cant get a good outcome :/ im useless with colour balance, i can virtually never get the colour i want :&#39;(