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This will be the final result for our Wolfman Signature
Create this cool signature quickly and easily in Photoshop.

This Is A Tutorial To Learn How To Make A Basic To Complex Signature With Many Techniques Within. You WIll Use c4d’s to Clipping Masks. Also You WIll Use Brushing and Smudging Styles. There Is Many Things To Learn From This Tutorial. I Hope You Like. Enjoy

Note: This tutorial is for moderate-advanced users a basic knowledge of Photoshop Layers and editing is required

Step 1 Find a Render, I recommend a website such as http://planetrenders.net, or you can use the render below either way, Place Your Render First On A Blank(transparent) Area. My Signautre Is 320 x 110 But Its Up To You. Copy Your Render About 12 Times To Start Just Incase You Want.
Then Press The Eyes On The Left Of The Layer
Until You Get To Get Only One Render That Has An Eye
Now Your Started And Follow The Steps
I Have Provided.

This Is The Background For My Signature. I took A Render And Expanded It To Create This.

Render that was used from http://planetrenders.net

Step 2 To Get Results Like This I Opened One Of The Renders I copied. Then I Got The Smudge Tool And Smudged The Render Up And To The Left For Flow. To Find The Smudge Tool, Look For The Bucket Or Gradient Tool And Its The Tool Below It. Right Click The Icon below The Bucket Or Gradient And Its The Little Hand Icon Thing. Thats The Smudge Tool.

Step 2 Results of Smudging

Step 3 Again I Opened A New Render. I Put The Layer Style On Color Dodge. THen I smudged Again To The Same Direction But Not As Heavily.

New Layer More Smudging

Step 4 Same Thing. Opened A New Render And Put The Layer Style As Screen. I Smudged Again To The Same Direction.

New Layer Yet More Smudging

Step 5 I Again Opened A New Render Or Made Visible. I did Nothing With This. Just Let It be.

New Layer with Render and no changes to Render

Step 6 On This Layer I Added/Placed Three Abstract 3d Renders. You Can Add Abstract or Fractual 3D Renders. It Depends On Your Signature. I Places Them Where My Signature Is Going To Flow. I Put My C4D’s(The 3D Renders) On Layer Style Screen And One Of Color Dodge. You Can Change Your Styles To What Ever Looks Best On Your Signature. Also The Amount All Depends On You And Your Signature.

Added three abstract Renders

Step 7 I Put A Big Blue Brush On The Right Side With It Going Against My Flow But Adding Depth. It Doesnt Matter The Color Really But It Is SomeTimes Good To Make It The Color Of Your Signature. Pick A Main Color.

Blue brush to right hand side

Step 8 Okay This Is A Tricky Part If Your New. To Get To This Step You Need To Create A New Layer.(Shift-Ctrl-N). Press Okay. Then You Are Going To Do Image – Apply Image. Then You Need To Right Click That New Layer And Select Create Clipping Mask. Then You Need To Move That Layer Around And You Will See What Happens. Helps Make It The Same Colors As The Signature.

Open Photo Filter

Apply these settings

These Are The Photo Filters And Gradient Maps That Help You Blend Your Signature And ArtWorks Together. You Dont Have To Use These Settings But I Did For My Signature Because They Looked Good For Me. Experiment With The Settings To Get Your Look.

Step 9 After Doing All These Things You Should Get Your Signature Something Like This. On This Step I AlSo DiD A Copy. Create A New Layer Again. Do Image-apply Image. Then Go To Filter-Sharpen-sharpen. It Should NoW Look More Precise. Take Your Eraser Tool And Erase Lightly Around The Render A Bit so It Blends In A Bit More. On Your 3D Renders erase A Bit That Looks Too Sharpened And Bold. But You Want it Bold Enough So It Shows. A Bit.

After Photo Filter

Step 10 For This Part. I Am Adding A Light Source. I DiD This By Creating A New Layer. Then I Took A 100 – 200 px. White brush And Put It On The Top Left Of The Render. You Want To Put It Where Your Render Has A Natural Light/Shade To It. Then Where It Is Lighttist You Place It There. I Made Serval Layers To This Because I Wanted A Good Light Source. I Changed The Opacity And Fill Of These Layers To Get a Good Light Source. You Dont Want It Too Bright Or Too Dull.

Adding a Light Source

Step 11 For This I Made A New Layer. Then I Took A Splatter Brush And Brushes Over The Signautre. I Choose Spots Where The Render Might Be Too Noticeable Or Where There Seems A Lack Of Detail. Dont Worry About The Color I Did It So You Can See. When You Are Brushing Erase What Covers The Render And What You Dont Like. We Will Be Doing A Clipping Mask Again.

Small Brush light spots

Step 12 To Create The Clipping Mask. Create A New Layer. Do Image-Apply Image. Then Right Click The Layer. Select Create Clipping Mask. Then Move The Signature Around Until You Get What You Want. You Can Resize The Signature To Get It How You Like It. You Can always Erase.

Clipping Mask

Step 13 For This Part, Make A New Layer. Do Again Image-Apply Image. Then Filter-Sharpen-Sharpen. I Erased Most Of It Except For A Few Places here I Liked. You Dont Have To Do This Step If You Dont Like. But I Would Erase Most Of The Layer Except For A Few Places. If You Dont erase It Will Look Messy.

Sharpening

Step 14 All I DiD Here Was Make A Border. To Do This I made A New Layer. Then Image-Apply Image. Then I Moved The Layer Around So That The Bottom Is At The Top. The I Duplicated The Layer 4 Times.Right Click Layer Or Ctrl-J. Then Move Around Till You Get A Border On Each Side and You Like It.

Adding Border

Step 15 And finally I Added Some Text. For The Text Try To Pick Colors That Fit With The Signature. Mostly You Can Pick Colors In The Signature. Make Sure It Blends But Itsnt Too Noticeable Or Cant See It At All. For Text Placement Pick A Spot Where It is Sorta Close To The Render And That Looks Good. Add It To The Side With Less C4D’s usually. That Side Usually Needs Somethign To Cover The Negative Space. text Is Perfect. Then After Text I Added A someThing Called Sclan Lines.. You Dont Need These But I like Using Them.. They Are Little Tiny Lines In The signature That Add Effects. Then I Added A Brightness/Constract Layer. You Can find This Where You Found The Gradient Maps And Photo Filters. Dont Make It Too Dark Or Light. But Make It Usually Darker But barely …..

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Description

In this tutorial we will be creating a Logo with some cool effects and a
professional final look.

Objectives

• Layer Opacities and Styles
• Text Effects
• Blending Options
• Text Reflection

Final Result:

Step 1:

Create a new document 439×153 pixels, fill the background with Black #000000 and
write your text, in my example “Company Name”
(i used the font “Helvetica” for the text).

Step 2:

Let´s put some colour to the text. Fill the word “Company” with #FF9600 and “Name”
with #6B6B6B.

Step 3:

Now we are going to create the reflection. This is done by duplicating the text
layer and going to Edit>Transform>Flip Vertical

Step 4:

Now rasterize the layer (Layer>Rasterize>Text), take the Rectangular
Marque Tool
and select the half part of the layer like this:

Step 5:

Now press Alt+Ctrl+D and write 25 in the box, then press the Delete buttom two
times, Ctrl+D to deselect the layer and change the opacity to 60% (you can play
with this number if you like), you will have the reflection like this:

Step 6:

Select the Text Tool and write the slogan, in my example “your slogan goes here”,
i used the Trebuchet MS font and with a space between each leater to make it
looks better, like this:

Step 7:

Now let´s create a new layer (Ctrl+N) on the top of the text layer (not the
reflection one, the Company Name layer), and let´s select the Elpitical Marquee
Tool. Press D and X to use the White colour and draw an eliptical selection on
the text like this:

Step 8:

Then fill that selection with White (Alt+Backspace), you will have something
like this:

Step 9:

Then press Ctrl+G on the white selection layer to get this:

Step 10:

Then change the opacity to 20% (you can play with this number too), you will get
this:

Step 11:

Finally you can add some symbol to your Logo, i added an orange parrot on the
last “e” of the word Name (i used the Personaliced Shapes to add the parrot),
and finally you will get this:

Conclusion

Well I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, if you have any questions be sure to leave a comment below!

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Fill the canvas using the paintbucket tool
with #e2e2e2

Tip:

Press (g) to bring out the Paintbucket tool

Now Create a new layer and select the Rounded Rectangle Tool , then set the foreground color to #695D54

Once you create the Rounded Rectangle we are going to create a new document for the dropshadow, press ctrl+n to create a new document and use the following settings:

Next select the Pencil tool (b) And create an image like so

Then go to Edit > Define Pattern, it doesn’t matter what it is named

Now ctrl+click on the layer that has the rounded rectangle on it to make a selection of that layer, then create a new layer now drag the new layer under the layer that contains the rounded rectangle. Use the arrow keys to move the selection down a ways.

Press shift+backspace to fill the layer with the pattern we just created.

Be sure to set the layer with the Pattern in it to about 20-30% (whatever looks good, do it by eye)

Tip:

you can make a pattern anything you want fool around with it and you can come up with some pretty cool effects.

Now we are going to make those bevels, create a new layer, first zoom in really close using the Zoom Tool pull out the handy pencil tool again set it’s width to 1px (pixel), set foreground color to black and draw a short line (see image), now set the foreground color to white and draw another line just to the right of that; Set this layers blending mode to overlay and your all set.

Copy this layer by pressing ctrl+j (while that layer is selected) and you can make multiple bevels, zoom out to see what it looks like.

Now pull out the gradient tool set the foreground color to white, and set the Gradient style to white to transparent (see pic)

Set the opacity of that layer to about 10-20%

Tip:

play around with the opacity and blending options to see interesting results

Now we can add in the text, I used Tahoma Bolded with an outer glow on it applied to it:

To come out with:

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Step 1: First creat a a new image, make the background transparent, and the size 120 pixels wide by 240 pixels tall *note see the tip above to see about standard web banner sizes.

Step 2: Now you are going to want to create the shape of the affiliate banner using the rectangle tool set the radius of the tool to 10px put the cursor near the top left hand corner of the document and drag down towards the bottom right of the document. *Note* If you want to use the same color scheme we use, remember to set the foreground color to: #009543; Or you can fool around with a color you think would look good, or better portray your message.

Step 3: Next apply a stroke to the layer,

I applied the following settings.

Step 4: We are now going to be adding some glow effects to the banner, first make a new layer, by clicking on the new layer button , Now with that layer selected press ctrl+g, what this will do is make that layer “Mask” the layer underneath it i.e. things will only show on that layer if it is “touching” stuff in the layer underneath it. Grab the rectangular Marquee tool , make a selection of about the top 4th of the rounded rectangle box, now select the gradient tool set it’s style to foreground to transparent (top box you can make the gradient tool work by making it move from solid color to transparent color), and drag the gradient tool from top to bottom like so. REMEMBER!! to set the foreground color to #00F943 and the gradient from solid to transparent.

To come out with:

note how the solid to transparent gradient is selected, as well as the correct foreground color

Step 5: Now we are going to do about the same thing just a more subdued gradient, pull out the marquee tool again make a selection from the bottom up to almost 3/4′th of the way. After that pull out the gradient tool, , remember to keep the same settings as the previous step and use the gradient tool like so *note how we don’t “pull” the gradient all the way through the marquee this allows for a more “blended look”:

That should produce this:

And that is about it, I borrowed some photos from MorgueFile.com A great website that offers free professional stock photos. I cropped the images from there and positioned them on top of that banner, then added the Monkey Feather Logo (MonkeyFeather.com is a high quality hosting company that psdesignzone.com recommends above any other!) and some other advertising text with an outer glow to get a decent looking affiliate banner like below:

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