[PS7 +] My Way of Doing Grunge Signatures - Tutorial

[Anubis]

Author: Anubis (Me)
Credit to: Http://good-tutorials.com (in general)
# of Steps: 4
Program Needed: Photoshop (7.0 Preferred.)

Step One: Now you should Open a New Document, around 400x150 makes a good Anime Grunge Signature.
Now, Get some Awesome Grunge Brushes, Deviantart, sigsource.tk and others are good sources, now, Fill it up with some Grunge:

http://img117.exs.cx/img117/6481/Step1CreateaNiceGrungeBG.jpg

Step Two: Now, Open up an anime image, i used Trigun:

Here! (http://img117.exs.cx/img117/4069/Step2InputaPicture-Trigun.jpg)

Step Three: Now! You Might want to Desaturate your Anime Image, Image=>Image Adjustments=>Desaturate (Check if it looks good without desatureization!) Than, use Color Balance, ctrl+b, OR, use my prefferred way: Go to the "Create New Fill Or Ajustment Layer" button, click, go to Color Balance. Fiddle around with that.

http://img8.exs.cx/img8/8563/step3-colorbalancectrb.jpg

*Note: You May Want to use The same steps to Color Balance but instead of Clicking Color Balance Click Curves, Add Brightness/Darkness to it to spiff it up.*

Step Four: Now we have it all, Add some Nice text, a Good Border and walla! Your Finished!

http://img43.exs.cx/img43/3410/addtextborderandwalla.jpg

Edit, Ooh, crap, ment Signatures!

Ugh, to Mods, sorry bout deleting and remaking, kept messing up the title...

[Admiral44]

Great Tut Anubis. This is how mine came out. It's nothing compared to yours though.
http://tinypic.com/ljdpg
I added some extra images and I chose a diffrent color as you can see. But it's alright.
EDIT-It's preety ruff around the edges though.

[Pixels]

hmmm, all green seems tacky.... work on the colours a little more, contrast them more





Nice tut anubis, very nice.

[Papelbon]

ya nice one

[Anubis]

hmm, I`m gonna edit this tutorial, look out.

As i dont like the Brushed Cloud-Like effect anymore.

and people: PLEASE DONT JUST USE THE CLOUD EFFECT. it looks a little tacky now, Try different things, venture out into the wild and try on some things. Tech Brushes, More Grunge, Rendering for heavens sake. Just dont stick with one thing.

[Pixels]

Yeah, thats uh, what i was gonna say!!!

[Antownee]

*brings back thread*
Just to show you...
I used some fractal brushes for my backround

http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/9734/grungy1gy.gif

Hows that??
I used gogeta ^_^

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Avy:

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/9057/grungyavy4cd.gif

So..?