Making signature

Hi peeps. In this chapter I'll learn you how to make a s-i-g-n-a-t-u-r-e. Nowdays, that's the most famous thing on the forums. We're going to talk about various versions of signatures. Most famous are grunge. In this tutorial I'm not going to talk about grunge signatures. I'll talk about "cute signatures".

Here's one of mine signatures:



That's the way how it should look at the end, but I'm just going to change it a little bit.

Open the Photoshop, new document size 500x100 px. And open the picture under this text:



Then do this thing. Open the frog picture and then do this. Click Ctrl+A to select whole picture and then press Ctrl+C or under menu Edit click Copy. Then get back on your new document you made and click Ctrl+V or under menu Edit click Paste. This will copy the frog picture onto the new document. Click Ctrl+T to enter the Transform mode and in the toolbar under menu type next parameters:



If you didn't already unlocked the Background layer do that now. To do that double click on the padlock and click Ok in the window which will pop-up. Then rename the white layer (Layer 0) to Background and rename Layer 1 to Frog_main. When you've done that download the brush set from the link below:

Brush Set #1

Unpack the brush set, and move it to the hdd://program files/adobe/photoshop/presets/brushes . Doing that you added the brush set you downloaded to the Brushes list. Then make a new layer, rename it to "Drawings" and then take Brush tool (hotkey - B) and draw something like down, using whatever brushes you want. It should look like something below:



You probably don't have the green color as I do, so click Ctrl+U or use command Hue/Saturation from Image/Adjustments and enter these values:



Now, that's the main brushes and we don't need anymore of these. Now, take Eraser tool and open Special Effects brushes (which come in the Photoshop by default) and choose Hypno lines from the brushes list and brush the already made green brushes. It'll look very cool.

Now take Brush tool again and select Hypno Lines again, and set opacity of the brushes to 40% and draw that brush around edges of the picture! It should look like this:



Let's continue brushing, now make a new layer and rename it to "Drawings_bg" and set its position under the Drawings layer. Brush tool again with Petal Crystals brush and set opacity to 55% and Flow to 40% and Brush size to 57 px and brush all around document, but be quick, because we want to have transparent brushing. You'll manage to do that only if you don't repeat brushing process on the already brushed. I hope you understand me.

After doing that, take Scattered Wild Flowers brush set opacity to 100% and Flow to 100% and color to light green and brush whole document until you're statisfied with results.

We're finished with brushing you should have similiar results to the next picture:



After that, click on the topmost layer to select it and click Ctrl+Shift+E to merge all layers. Now make new layer and rename it to borders. And then click Ctrl+A to select whole picture and right click anywhere in the selection and click Stroke it'll open Stroke window. Enter these values:

Width: 3 px
Color: Black
Location: Inside

Other values to default and click Ok. Now do same thing but now with these values:

Width: 2 px
Color: White
Location: Inside

Click Ok. Same thing once more with these values:

Width: 1 px
Color: Black
Location: Inside

Click Ok. Now zoom the borders about 400%, take Magic Wand Tool and click white border. Clicking white color Magic Wand Tool selects all white colors which is in its range. Now click Delete on keyboard to delete white color. Zoom out to 100%. Voila! You have a some kind of frame. I think it's really cool.

Now it's time to add text and we're finished!

Click Horizontal Type Tool and type whatever you want. Color doesn't matter. Now right click on the text layer and click Rasterize Type. Double click on the icon next to text layer and it will open magic Layer Style tool.

Click Drop Shadow and enter these values, other leave on default:

Color: Very dark green
Opacity: 57%
Distance: 5 px
Spread: 18%
Size: 13 px

Then, click Color Overlay enter these values:

Color: Light Green
Opacity: 50%

Then, Pattern Overlay:

Pattern: Molecular
Scale: 59%

And check Stroke, with these values:

Size: 1 px
Color: Black

Click Ok. Voila! We've finished our magical, cute, greeny, nature signature. You could use it if you are often on forums about nature and such things. Otherwise you can set colors you want, and use it for different forums. But that doesn't matter!

This is my result, I only added some starry brushes which are very cool.



Happy signaturing, enjoy your stay on the blog and bye.