Thread: VectorKing's Guide to Making Stylish Siggys

To follow along this guide you will need.

• Photoshop
• Brushes of your choice
• Fonts of your choice
• Pictures of your choice
• Basic - Intermediate Photoshop knowledge

*note, this guide is less noob friendly then the last, and will include less pictures, if you do not understand what i am talking about, then this guide isn't for you.

We will be making this:






First thing's first were going to launch photoshop and open a new document 350x150 in size. Now we need to find an image.
just surf through deviantart until you find something nice. For the purpose of this guide I will use this image:



Copy your image into photoshop and resize as necessary using ctrl+T
Create a new levels adjustment layer set the settings as follows:




The aim of the levels adjustment layer is to give the picture a bit more buzz, and up the contrast.
(or tweak to your preference)

Now here comes the complicated part that I can't really guide you through, the idea with signatures, is that you want everything to blend, in this case one picture, but in some cases it can be two or three. Plus you also want your text to blend. well whats the big secret?

Adjustment layers, tons of them, if your nick and your picture are both under 20 adjustment layers there gonna be blending real well. the main adjustment layer we use is Levels, and then on top of that you want to put lots of Color balance adjustments.

Just mess about with lots of them move the colors around, till you get something that looks nice, just make sure all the other adjustment layers are above the levels one.

This is the Pic after lots of color balance.



As you can see we now have a variety of colors, some pink some blue, some red some yellow. Much more interesting then just the green from the beginning. Now for brushes and patterns. the trick with patterns is you want to select parts of the image and put different patterns on them, then put the patterns on soft light or overlay, to blend them.

This is how it looks after some simple patterns.



Now brushes, just make a new layer set it to soft light ant put some white brushes on it, whatever you think looks good.

This is after messing around with some Paint splatter brushes, can be downloaded here






Now on the nick

Create a new text box, write your nick in it and choose a font, make sure your text is underneath all the color adjustment layers for optimal blending. now choose two colors from the picture using the eyedropper tool. now select the gfx button for the text.

I used the following settings, tweak for preference:







In the gradient overlay, double click the gradient to get to this window



Here pick the two colors you chose.

Duplicate the text and move the duplicated version to the side, add some more splatter brushes behind the text and you should have something like this:



Now press ctrl+a and go to selection save selection, and call it selection 1 then go to image> canvas size and set it to 400x200 pixels.

now the rest of the picture should be emerging, so go to selection>load selection and in channel load selection 1. once you have the original sig selected go to selection>inverse. and then proceed to delete all the excess from the layers. you should now have this:



select all the layers, from top to bottom and press ctrl+E
now go to the gfx of the merged layer, and put in this outer glow



You can't see the glow beacuse it is on a transparent background, just save the signature as a png and it will work on any background.

Heres final signature




Enjoy! and post your results here

Aha lovely dude, Thats what I was looking for!!

You are the man..... Thanks will workout on Photoshop with that, Regards!!

PS: Your Signature is really cool there!!

Thanks dude this tutorial gone work for me i will use this tutorial .It's another good that i want to use for creation of good avatar thanks dude for creating this awesome tutorial...and keep it up..

nice guide

WoW m8 gr8 work with both avatar and sign tutorials...Will make one for myself using it ..he he

excellent!!! i'll try it when i'll have some time...i'm in rush now...

Again, great work with a solid tutorial! Will try it out asap.
Result will be posted :)

cheers

EDIT:

Okey, here's the outcome:



Im a total newb in photoshop so feedback on what I can do better would be great!

regards

You might want to update the first image on your tutorial. It seems it has been removed by you

Originally Posted by qE^

Again, great work with a solid tutorial! Will try it out asap.
Result will be posted :)

cheers

EDIT:

Okey, here's the outcome:



Im a total newb in photoshop so feedback on what I can do better would be great!

regards

Thats pretty good for your first try. Ill have to try this tutorial, Im also a noob at photoshop so all the guides are very nice to read through. ;)