Signature Tutorial
Signature Tutorial
Although Im not any good with Photoshop,I thought of making a signature tutorial which is different from the one's available already.Most of the things I learnt from good-tutorials.com so the credit goes to the people who made them there mainly.
As we are approaching the World Cup,the example Im showing is related.The tutorial is being used in Photoshop,but it can be used also in other image editors.
The Procedure:
1)Create a new 300*100 layer as shown.
2)Open the picture that will act as the main picture for your signature.Im using a Ronladinho picture here.
3)Using the pen tool make an outline around him and then use the make selection tool with the default settings.
4)Copy this image and then place it in your signature using the Free Transform tool,Ive decided to put it in the center and then work something out in the sides.
5)I decided to give an effect to this picture as its my main picture,so I duplicated the layer,desaturated the image,and then applied the following settings to this duplicated layer.
6)I decided to have Barcelona as my background theme so I coloured both sides of Ronaldihno with the colours of Barcelona,just by using the Fill tool and making appropriate selections.This is how it looks now.
7)The background still looks pretty empty so I opened a Barcelona logo as shown.
8)Now I used the pen tool again and followed the same procedures with the logo.I pasted it but left the original dimensions.Instead I used the Overlay mode for this picture and reduced the Opacity slightly.As I want this only towards the left,I deleted any part of the logo which was crossing the red area.My image looks like this now.
9)I added some text to it(use any font that suits) and then to border this text,I used the red colour and then used Filter->Render->Clouds and an outline(Blending modes) to the text.
10)For the right part of the image,I used another Ronaldinho picture,used the Opacity tool and then used the Screen mode for the image.This is how the image looks like now after the last couple of adjustments.
11)Finally to finish off I used the type tool and wrote Ronaldinho using any font,and then duplicated this layer and used a outline to give the text a glowing effect and a strong feel due to the multiple type layers.So my final image looks like this.
Final Words:
You can also use more background layers,use more logo's,text and anything you fancy to make the overall signature look good.However dont fill up the background too much as it doesnt look very good then.Hope to see your work using this tutorial.Good luck.