Today you will learn how to make a stock sig like this:

If you follow the tutorial closely, you are almost sure to get good results!

1. Open up a new white image. Size doesn't matter, but I'm using 400 x 150 px.

2. Open up your stock as a new layer. Position it so that it looks good, like so:

3. Duplicate this layer, and turn off the duplicate by clicking the eye symbol to the left.

4. With the original stock layer selected (NOT the duplicate), go to Layer > Colors > Desaturate.
After that, with this layer still selected, go to Filters > Enhance > Sharpen. Set it to
whatever you want, but the picture should look crisp and not noisy.

5. Now, turn the duplicated layer on by clicking the eye. This layer should still be in
color. Go to Filters > Blur > Motion Blur. Settings should be:
Linear
Length - 15
Set the Angle to an angle that looks good with your stock. This will give your sig
flow. Set this layer to Normal at 34 Opacity. It should look like this:

6. Now, duplicate the orginal stock layer, second from the bottom. Drag this duplicate layer
to the top. Double-click on the Gradient Tool from the tool bar, and make sure it is at these
settings:

7. Change your foreground and background colors to some bright opposite colors, like this:

8. Next, go to Select > All. Then, with the top layer selected, go to Filters > Colors > Map > Gradient Map.
Set this layer to Color at 50 Opacity. Go to Select > None.

9. Duplicate the original stock layer again, and drag it to the top. With this layer selected, go to
Layers > Colors > Levels. Darken it by dragging the middle notch somewhat to the right.
Set this layer to Value at 30 Opacity.

10. Now make a new transparent layer. Set white as your foreground color, and double-click on
the Gradient tool. Settings should be:

11. Then, do the gradient where you want your light to be. Like so:

12. Set that layer to Overlay, 100 Opacity.

13. Now go to Edit > Copy Visible. Then Edit > Paste. Then click on the New Layer button to
anchor it. Make sure this layer is on the top.

14. With this new layer selected, go to Filters > Blur > Gaussian Blur using 10 as the setting.
Then go to Layer > Colors > Levels. Settings should be:

Set this layer to Hard Light at 35 Opacity. (Full credit goes to This Tutorial for this technique.)

15. Almost done! Duplicate the original stock layer again, and bring it to the top.
Go to Filters > Blur > Motion Blur and use the same settings you used earlier. Then go to
Select > All. Then Select > Shrink, using 10 as the setting. Then click the Quick Mask button, like so:

16. Now go to Filters > Blur > Motion Blur again and use the same settings. Then click the
Quick Mask button again, then click Ctrl + K. Go to Select > None.

17. Set that layer at Normal, 34 Opacity. Adjust the levels if you need to, to make a
shadow around the edges.

18. Text and a border can be added anyway you choose. For my text, I
picked a color from the sig and used Arial for the font at size 15. For the border, a black 1 px. border,
with the opacity lowered down to 30.

19. YOU ARE DONE!!!

Nice one Syd! I always loved your stocks :h:

Thanx! :l: Anyone wanna try it out? Only 20 steps. :w:

I wanna know how you made the sig you have now...

A90's Tutorial

That looks nice, might try it out but i'm tired.

I'll try it out when I find a good stock. Post soon. :h:

Here we go:



My original result was too purple, so I had to do a few adjustment layers.

Here. I used an Atreyu Stock. Not too fond of it though since my stock only went from black and white, to yellow and white...

Thanks Syd! photo manip is one of my favorite ways of making tags. I will definately try this alter, I got a couple of Death note stocks Ive been DYING to use.

This will help manip noobs learn our ways, right Syd?

Awesome tut! Love it Syd and I will definitely be posting my outcome. Thanks for sharing! :w:

Awesome Tut Syd. I'll defintly be trying this.

Very nice: simple tutorial, good results :l: That's how it's supposed to be! :l: Good job!

Well here's my result. I really like this tut and my outcome. Here it is:

Here's my result:

Nice tut, and I like the outcome.

Im a noob to this stock manip. Just wondering how you know what images to use, what ones are good for this type of sig making.

Oh, nice one A90. :w:

@ A90: Effing. HAWT.

@ Lancea: You don't ahve to have a certain image. You canuse whatever you want. landscapes, parts from movies, etc.

heh

Good tut!! i always loved that sig, ill try it tomoro

Love my outcome :h: Awesome tutorial Syd

great tut ill post my result later :w:

hehehe :w: thanx!

thank you everyone for your comments and outcomes! :l: :l: :l: I will add them to the list at the top...

yay, thanx for making it official! :l:

Thanks a lot for the tutorial Syndey! Great job! A lot of people like the sig i made from it. Here......

-thanks again! love your work!