(Before you start this titorial i would recomend the you have a basic knowledge of the photoshop tools)

How tro make a signature:

Before you even make a start to make a sig you should have a general idea of what you want it to look like and what you want in it.In this tutorial we will

be making an abstract anime themed signature.


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Ok lets begin.
The first thing you need to do is make a background for your sig.so open up a new 500x500px document.

Now get your gradient tool and make a gradient similar to what i have done below.


Now go to Filter-->Distort-->Wave.
Settings:


Your image should now look like this:


Go to Filter-->Distort-->Polar Coordinates.
settings:
Polar to rectangular

Your image should look like this:


Now duplicate this layer.Layer-->Duplicate Layer.

Go to Filter-->Distort-->Twirl.
settings:
angle:136*

Now set that layers Blending Mode to Darken.

Duplicate this laye.Layer-->Duplicate layer and flip it horizontaly.Edit-->Transform-->Flip Horizontal.

Now your image hould look like this:


Now go to Layer-->Merge Visible.

Duplicate the layer.Layer-->Duplicate layer.

On the duplicated laye go to Filter-->Blur-->Gaussion Blur.
settings:
Radius:3.2

Your duplicated layer should look like this:


Now while your still on your duplicated layer go to.Image-->Adjustments-->Hue/Saturation.
settings:
(dont forget to check the colorize box)

Now go back to your bottom layer and go to Image-->Adjustments-->Hue/Saturation.
settings:


Now go back to you duplicated layer and set th Blending mode to Screen.

Layer-->Merge Down

Ok now your background is done and it should look something like this:

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Now we are ready to start building the actual signaure.

Get your recatngular marquee tool.
settings:


Now find a good spot of your background and copy it.Edit-->Copy


Ok open up a new document.400x130px and paste what you copied into your new document.


Now we need som stuff to put in the sig.You can look around on the web for your own pics or you can use the one below.


get your magic wand tool and select the background of your image:


Now go to Select-->Select Inverse.

Now copy and paste into your signature:


Now set the Blending Mode of the goku layer to Hard Light:


Ok we need to make a place to put your name iun now.

Layer-->New Layer.Put this layer below your layer that your pc is in.

Grab your rectangular marquee tool and make a selection like below:


Fill the selection with white.

Set the layer opacity to 50%

Go to Layer-->Layer Style-->Stroke.
settings:


Now add some text and you all done.

Heres my final image:

n1 awsom but easy...i check more tut's now...like this 1;)

Yeah! Its a great tut :D

It's a pretty basic tutorial. Rock on. :)

nice tut. its easy but the outcome is good :)

Nice man :)

This is what I got...but I still am confused once you got to the Text part...

Yeh not bad knuckle

nice

worked for me

very nice tutorial.. i love the background :)

dude i love the tutorial but mine came out bad quality....its wierd check this out..

whats wrong with it??
dang it wrong thread sorry :evil: