March 2012 ~ Fulfill your editing

How to make a signature[photoshop]

Posted By: Joel V John on 7:04 AM

1) Create a new Photoshop document and give it a black background.

2) Type your text in white colours.

3) Press control and click on the thumbnail and edit the border selection to 35 pixels: (Select -> Modify -> Border) and make it 35 pixels.

4) Create a new layer and paint it white.

5) Make your text black and rasterize it (Layer -> rasterize -> type)

6) Move it above the backlight.

7) Set the blending mode of the backlight to dissolve.

8) Select a new layer and then merge it with the backlight layer

9) Select Filter > Blur > Radial Blur

10) Apply a 100 amount, and on zoom. The centre is where you want the light to come from.

11) Create a new layer and paint it with a circular gradient from White to Black. The center is where the light is coming from.

12) Set blending mode to screen.

13) Duplicate the text layer and flip it vertically (Edit -> Transform -> flip vertical) and place is underneath the original text.

14) Set the transparency to about 60-80%

15) Apply some blur (Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian blur)

16) Put in some light strokes in. Open the layer options of the text and in the bottom part change the slider by pressing alt:

17) Create a new layer above everything and paint it with a colour, or gradient and set the blending mode to soft light.

Photoshop signature tutorial

Posted By: Joel V John on 6:46 AM

Hello, this is my first attempt at a graphics tutorial. I wasn’t sure as to how I was going to structure this so I just took some screenshots as I made the signature in hopes they would help you see what I am trying to explain.

First off if you want to replicate this image you will need 2 things, the first thing is the font used and the second thing is the image used. I have put both of these into a zip folder for you. You can download the .zip here

Now that you have those things we can get started. Just follow these steps and you will be fine.

1. In photoshop click File-New
2. Set the dimensions as follows. Width 450. Height 175. And set background contents as Transparent.
3. Now make another layer. You can do this by holding Shift+CTRL and pressing N.
4. Once you have 2 layers you will want to make layer 1 a dark color, I use the color of HF grey because that is what my signature was made for.
5. You will want layer 2 to be your image layer (when I say image I am referring to the picture contained in the .zip folder I provided for you)
6. Make sure Layer 1 is selected and click the text tool. This will create a new text layer on top of layer 1.
7. Using the font in the .zip you can create the text you want, I used iEchO.
8. After you have the text you will want to double click the text layer, this will bring up the “Layer Styles” window.
9. Check the box next to “Stroke” and check the box next to “Outer Glow”
10. Now click on Stroke, and set the size to 1 pixel and the color to white.
11. Click Outer glow and set the color to white. After this click “OK”
12. Right click on Layer 2 and select “Clipping Mask”
13. At this point you should have your text with the nova image inside of it with a grey background.
14. Now you can create a copy of layer 2 and move it under your text image but above layer 1.
15. Change the opacity of layer 2 copy to about 40-50%
16. Now use the eraser to adjust layer 2 copy to look how you want it to.
Your layers should look like this.

Now Just hide or delete layer 1 and save as .png.
If you followed the steps correctly it should look like this.

How to create an awesome background[tut]

Posted By: Joel V John on 6:31 AM

This is a Tutorial on how to make a stylish Wallpaper in less than five Minutes.

Let's Go

Open a new document with the size you want ( I used 1600x900 because it's my desktop size)

Then go to Filter > Render > Clouds with black as foreground and white as background color selected, you will have the following Result:

Now go to Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic and set the cell size to 15, it should look like this now:

Then go to Filter > Stylize > Find Edges, now it should look like this:

Now go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur with Amount 35, Method Zoom and Quality Best, you will have the following Result:

Now go to Filter > Stylize > Find Edges and it will look like this:

Then press Ctrl+I or Image > Adjustments > Invert, now it will look like this.

Now we want to add colour so we press Ctrl+U or Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation check Colorize and then play with the Rulers until the Image looks nice. My final Image: