Mar 11, 2012

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How to make a signature[photoshop]


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.















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