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Hi all,
in this tutorial I will teach you how to make this signature:

full smudge tutorial result

Lets Start:
1.Ok, Open a Canvas 280x80 with a white background
2.then We Take A Render, I Took This One:

full smudge tutorial render

3.Resize it till it fits nicely in the canvas
4. Now duplicate the render layer so you got 2 layers, then hide your first layer
5. Now Get the SmudgeTool get the Hard Round 19 pixels brush and smudge the visible layer till it looks like this(if you dont know how to smudge look for other tutorials on this website):

full smudge tutorial step1

6. Now Copy The Original Render Again And Past The Copy On The Side Of your Sig i pasted it on the left side now it looks like this:

full smudge tutorial step2

7.Put the layer with your render on it to Linear Light and now Merge(CTRL + E) the render and the smudge layer.
8. Now Duplicate that layer
9. Now Put A Filter -> Blur ->Radial Blur on The Original layer-- Amount = 40% -- Method = z00m
10. Now We Put 2 Lens Flare's on the Original( Filter -> Render -> Lensflare) now it looks like this:

full smudge tutorial step3

11. Now Set The Copied Layer's Opacity to 70% and the blending mode to Soft Light, it will now look something like this:

full smudge tutorial step4

12. If your sig is to dark or light on one side of the sig, take out a nice grunge brush and brush a bit on a new layer to make the sig look darker/lighter

full smudge tutorial step5

13. now get the original render and place it on top off all other layers and set the blending mode to screen:

full smudge tutorial step6

14. now copy that layer, but this time set it to normal with a opacity of 68% and place it on the right side of your signature:

full smudge tutorial step7

15. now set a gradient map over it by pressing on this button:

full smudge tutorial step8

Select Gradient map from the menu and set it from black to white, once you done that set the blending mode of the gradient map layer to soft light.
16. Now Do it Once again but now set the layer too hardlight

17. If you did everything correct your sig will now look something like this:

full smudge tutorial final result

Now you can add some cool text on your signature, but im not gonna tell you how to do that, use your own imagination for that!








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posted on June 25th, 2006 by JaspervD
that looks nice, nice tutorial
posted on March 2nd, 2007 by The Mehdi
It is a nice tutorial. I like the outcome! Thanks a lot!
posted on March 12th, 2007 by kirkhalo1994
thats a nice tutorial
posted on March 12th, 2007 by crusher
nice tut! =)
posted on March 14th, 2007 by Tiny

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