Official Wiz Tut#2
Recommended for Novices...
Outcome:

Step1.Take out a new Document and brush around with grudge like brushes and combine it with other brushes that semi-stand out more than the grudge like brushes that you just put down.

Step2.Now add a new layer and put a gradient on it similiar
to the color of your render. Set it to overlay or soft light.

Step3.Now you will need to duplicate your backround about
2 times, the first one you will need to blur>pixelize it by 11-12
and set it to hard light 90%. The second one needs to be pixelized
also but by 13-16. Set that to lighten only at 50%.

Step4. Then sharpen the original backround by 10-50 depending on the brushes u used.

Step5.Next marge al the layers together, make sure to merge the layers
from the bottom not from the top so nothing gets messed up. Then add your render now.

Step6.Next duplicate your render and motion blur the duplicate to these
settings on linear blur.14 in length and 140 in angle. Now go to filters>artistic>softglow and softglow on the duplicate. with a middle brightness setting, high sharpness and very lowglow radius settings.

Step7.Next put a soft glow on your original render with the same settings but higher glow radius and lower brightness. then sharpen it by 10-50.Now you will take out the eraser tool and erase the bad parts including mostly the face and around leaving the good parts there.

Step8. Add another gradient, i cant really say what colors becuase it
depends on how your sig is so far.This step is optional...Set the gradient to whatever you feel looks best...

Step9.Add a border (i always forget this becuz its the last thing i do)

Step10. Add text,duplicate the text layer and pixelize it by 5-10..you can
also try to diverse the pixelized layer to make the text looks better.

Nice effect. I am not a sig maker, but I like it.

Thats a really nice effect! Ill have to try this later.

Pretty cool, seems a bit empty for my taste, but good job nonetheless.

Thx alot for the comments, first tut ive had
with no major problems, and i got the text good!! =)

Nice tutorial I really like the background on it

Nice tut my result my render sucks...

Hmm try scaleing the render layer and using the eraser a bit more,
You want the backround to stand out more but still having the
quality of the text and the render..

Ok but i like the way it looks now

Which 1? your current?

Ah,this looks cool but kinda hard.

If youre familiar with gimp then it shouldnt be difficult..
try it out first then show your work, and ill help you fix it ok?

Nice tutorial, but I don't really like the outcome... The colors and render were bad, but I liked the idea. Thanks!

He's right... it's too empty... but i like the bg :l:

Im sorry but im new to this and your steps werent that detailed where do i go to make a grunge brush??

nice tut but the bg comes out a little flat. some pentooling and adding text to a middle layer will add depth. here's my effort.

Hey this tut rocks i actualy made something nice! I didnt do the render blur and it still looks great thanks!

Mine:

i dont realy like what i come up with.

Tried it Again! i love this resault!

nice tut but i dont know how to paste penders in it

Awesome tutorial, I'll try it. @ Soulz: either right click on your render or stock pic or press control and c then to paste it onto you sig just right click and press paste or press control and V. Hope that I helped!

Great tut, nice & easy to follow.

Here's what I came up with. I added an extra render layer though, as it didn't stand out too well before, and she looked a bit too orange. And I think I did my border a bit differently.



I prefer your background effect to mine, though I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I used a grid-shaped grunge brush, and had to apply it twice, so it doesn't line up so well. How badly does that stand out?

c&c greatly appreciated, thanks

(Ignore the number on it, I'm trying to make something for a different forum. )

hey guys i just got my GIMP and found this guide i tried following till the eraser part but after that i got confused i kept erasing but the render is still blurry then i tried remaking but the results were the same can someone help me i know this might be an old thread and i shouldnt be bumping it
anyway this was my result pls help me

Hey asdf, I'm not sure, I'm new to GIMP, too, but maybe you didn't duplicate the render and only blur the top layer. Leave the one underneath alone, then when you erase the top one, the bottom one shows through.

Here's my result. I added some brushing because it looked pretty empty otherwise.

great tut although i messed it up and erased to much but otherwise it came out ok