Part:1
Spartacus said:In this tutorial you will learn how to create a nice flow in your signature using the liquify tool and some other cool techniques.
At the end of this tutorial you will be able to:
* Blend your render using smudging
* Use the wave filter to create your background
* Use the liquify tool to enhance flow
* Use gradient maps to color your signature
* Add some nice effects to improve the flow.
We will be creating the following signature:
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Finding a nice render
Before we start you will need a render that has some sort of action going on in it. For example someone shooting.
Creating the background.
Lets get started by opening a new document in photoshop, I choose 380px x 150px.
Now add your render, but don’t resize it yet, we will be using the render to create our background.
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As you can see the render doesn’t fill the entire background, to solve this go to Layer > Duplicate Layer and move the duplicate so it fills your entire canvas.
Now select both layers using ctrl and go to Layer > Merge Layers
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Now go to Filter > Disort > Wave and use the default settings, just play around untill you got something you are happy with.
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Now our background is finished, thats all easy isn’t it.