Simple signature in Photoshop

[nicckk]

This tutorial will guide you through the steps of making a basic signature image. Here we go,

Step 1) Make a new document with these settings




Step 2) Find a render and a background, and reposition it in Photoshop. Now it should look something like this. If you wish, you can smudge the backround for a more dramatic effect.



Step 3) This is an important step. Here you apply the gradient's, that give the picture a more dramatic look. The first one I applied was a orange-red and the second was a purple to blue. (I forgot to get a picture of the purple to blue) And I lowered the opacity of the purple to blue layer.





Step 4) Play around with levels a little bit.



Step 5) Add a border and text. For a border, cntrl+click the backround layer and go to select->modify-> and set it to about two pixels.



If someone wants the PSD file, you can shoot me an email. Hopefully this tut will help you.

[WingedPanther]

Thanks. From everything I've seen, it looks like a lot of photoshop work is about adding layers/filters to an image. Correct?

[Jordan]

That is cool! I wish I wasn't so bad at Photoshop. Thanks for the tutorial - +rep!

[Xav]

Thanks. From everything I've seen, it looks like a lot of photoshop work is about adding layers/filters to an image. Correct?

It depends largely on what you are doing.

If you are taking an existing image and modifying/touching it up (not in a perverse way though ), like this tutorial (and many of Jaan's works), then masked filters are essentially the only steps involved.

On the other hand, if you are creating graphics from scratch, then you use some of the more hardcore tools (not in a perverse way though ) such as brushes, shapes and all the selection tools.

[nicckk]

Well Xav, you seem to do alot of graphics, what would you rate the signature that I made.

[Xav]

Aw, thanks.

I really like the signature you made. It looks exciting and dramatic. There are only two criticisms I have to make:

• The text "CodeCall" is bland and uninteresting compared to the busy background. Perhaps a drop shadow/glow/gradient effect and a more imaginative font would bring it in line with the graphics beneath it.
• It is a little oddly shaped - like a cross between a sig bar and a full banner. It might be worth making the canvas larger to start with. Perhaps a non-square border would look nice, maybe an interesting shape and a gradual fade out into transparency.

[amrosama]

nice tutorial +rep

hey people did you notice the pic at step 4??
scroll the window with your mouse and you will see that graph lines moving like a string

[jwxie518]

nice tutorial +rep

hey people did you notice the pic at step 4??
scroll the window with your mouse and you will see that graph lines moving like a string

are you being....

nice tutorial

[dr moes]

yaw, very gooooooood
but i do not know how to play with the levels !

[Xav]

I don't get any strange graph lines.