Ok this is what it is gonna turn out like:


Note: This may seem a bit like the "Grungestract Background Tutorial" by Trapezium at the start but it gets different at about the 3rd step :w:
Anyway. Open a blank canvas and choose your gradient tool. Set the mode to difference and the shape as Bi-linear, don't change anything else. Click and drag until you get a weird patern. Duplicate this layer and go to filters>edge detect>edge. Then set the layer mode to overlay and merge it down. Duplicate the layer again and now go to Layer>colors>invert. Now press shift F and click on the image, this should flip it. Set the mode to overlay and merge down.
(Hope you got all of that)
you should get this:


Now duplicate this layer and go to filters>noise>pick. Push the 2 bars up to 100 and then click ok. Once that has finished go to tools>color tools>colorize. Play around with it until you roughly get the same colour as the main colour of your render. Set this layer to over lay:


Ok make a new layer and paste your render on it so many times there is nothing left visible other then it. Go to filters>blur>gaussian blur and blur around 18 X 18 pixels. Set the layer to overlay.


Now put your render onto a new layer. Duplicate it and then go back to filters>noise>pick. Make sure the bars are still on 100 and then click ok. Set this layer to overlay.


There's that done.

For my text I just got the text tool, wrote what I wanted it to say in white and then I duplicated the layer and went to filters>glass effects>glass tile. Then I clicked ok to the automatic settings.Then go to filters>blur>guassian blur. Make it a 1 X 1 pixel blur. Set the layer opacity to 60%-ish. Then you make the glass tile layer below the normal text layer.

For my border I just made a new layer selected all then dumped in black went to select>shrink. I shrunk it by 1 pixel then hit ok then pressed ctrl X.

Well if anyone wants more screens I'll put them up, I was just in a rush :

Looking good!

You seem to be really good with gradients; you've made it look like some C4D. :m:

I have no idea what a C4D is, but a compliment is a compliment :l:

A gradient can be used for many things, never poo-poo a gradient :w:

Followed it a little bit

cool, nice subtle border, you do that with overlayed lines?

Nice tut.
Heres what I got:

That's pretty good, more of a lighter feel to mine, nice

Thankz :h:

Is that text a downloadable font? If so, can you link me?

Nice tut. I look forward to many more.

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Yeah it's call "3" :
http://www.dafont.com/three.font

But to get that effect follow the instructions:


Tunnle Lord0, that looks really cool, but when you use a jpg, don't lower the quality too much

nice tut !
this is what i got :

Hmm... I got lost somewhere around the part where you said to paste your render so many times that that's all you could see. I ended up with something where I had a bunch of blurred renders of Link for a background lol.

I like the tutorial anyway though. I like how you don't use brushes. That's how I've done all my stuff :w:

EDIT: I just decided to change up your tutorial a bit instead of following it to the letter, and I got this-



I think it's =/

When he said Duplicate it so all the render is all that you see is to move it around aswell

Yeah I did move it around.

here is what i did

Thought you might like to see this other banner I made using some of your techniques. It's better than the Venom one IMO-

@Kªñdid (1st time)
Sorry, I forgot to say set it to overlay, do that and it'll work out :w:

Nice out come anyway.

@for$aken
That is very good, I'm guessing the orb was put there for decoration?

@Kªñdid (2nd time)
I can see the white around the edge, if you don't mind a glow you can duplicate the layer and blur the bottom one by about 2-1 pixels

no the orb cam with the render but i cut it before i scaled the render down and only scaled the orb liek half so it would be bigger and i only used it once in the bg for the green spot like u did

as much as i try now i can never get the same effect...it alwas looks bad even if i follow the tut again

Can I see one of your later results, to see where it's going wrong?

its not that anythign is wrong it just never looks good when i do the gradient i can never get a good look going

ok

This is my result .. not really good because I'm a noob.

Doesn't look too bad, did you only do the gradient once?

I did it many times actually, I just can't get it to look like yours did when you did the gradient .. it like only goes to one side and like it wont get to look like yours if you get what I'm saying.