[The-Witch-King]

1. open up a blank canvas about 400 X 120


2. fill it with black


3. brush around using some white brushes then brush a little more but in black this time


4. (optional) go to layers | colors | invert

5. place your render where you want it


6. go to layers | colors | colorize and put the bg to a color that matches your render


7. Now add a few C4D's behind the render setting them at screen, overlay, or dodge


8. add a C4D ontop of the render so that it makes it look sparkly


9.(optional) desaturate the C4D you put ontop of your render and then colorize it to match you render, you can also do the same to the other C4D's

10. then flattten the image

11. next set your foreground and back ground color to 00097e & b0ff63


12. duplicate the layer and go to filters | colors | map | gradient map


13. set the top layer at color at 20-40%


14. flatten the image again

15. then set your foreground and background colors to ff6363 & 9a8cff


16. duplicate the layer and do another gradient map.


17. next do the same as steps 13. & 14.


18. now find two colors that match the render and repeat steps15-16


19. Now duplicate the layer again and go to filters | artistic | softglow


20. set the softglow layer to screen and mess with the opacity.


(steps 21-25 are optional)

21.now lets mess around some more...flatten the image and then duplicate the layer again

22. grab the vine brush and brush all over the duplicated layer


23. set that layer at overlay, varying opacity. flatten the image


24. select a rectangular a rea covering almost all of the sig and press ctrl+I
duplicate the layer


25. next go to filters | distorts | video | and select 3x3 . press ok. then lets set the layer at soft light at 50% opacity.
flatten the image


26.Now you can add text and a border.


27. and then your'e done :l:

SHOW ME WHAT YOU CAN DO!! :)

all credit goes to Vo1ture for finding these C4D's
http://i2.photobucke...re/pms_C4d6.jpg
http://i2.photobucke...re/pms_c4d2.jpg
http://i2.photobucke...re/pms_C4d7.jpg
http://i2.photobucke...Abstract_27.jpg
http://i2.photobucke...bstract_118.jpg

[The-Witch-King]

comments?

[sydney]

I like the results and will definitely try it out sometime, thanx!

[The-Witch-King]

Thanx glad you like it, cant wait to see your results :l:

[darkblade44431]

Mind postin' where u got the c4d's please. If u do, i'll use this tutorial and show what i can do with it.

[The-Witch-King]

main post edited, thanx to vo1ture for the C4D's :w:

[darkblade44431]

the c4d's are awesome! But i don't understand how to use them in my sig, they have a black background.

[yugihalo]

Nice tut ill try it sometime its a great result...

[The-Witch-King]

just place them where you want them and put them on screen and then they will look right or they can be placed on overlay or dodge or hard light. the black background is supposed to be there

[Blazeboy]

Darn all these tutorials that require brushing remind me that I need to make more brushes... I'll be back in a month or so :P.

[fuglyseep]

You can just use a stock photo for the backround if you want. Thats what Im gonna try.

Nice tut, man. The result was pretty sweet! :l:

[Trapezium]

Most tutorials that start with 'brush' are pants, but this is surprisingly sophisticated; nice one! :w:

[Blazeboy]

Well I got a stock and played around with it for a couple of minutes till it looked pretty cool. Then... I realized that I completely forgot that I have no c4ds >_<. The world is turning against me.

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Most tutorials that start with 'brush' are pants, but this is surprisingly sophisticated; nice one!

Thats exactly what I wanted to say but I lacked the thinking space to put it into words! So I'll be stealing your post now...

[fuglyseep]

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Most tutorials that start with 'brush' are pants,

Just out of curiosity, what do you have against pants?

[Trapezium]

*giggles*

Nothing at all, but it's a really funny phrase. :w:

[Blazeboy]

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Just out of curiosity, what do you have against pants?

Nothing but most of us prefer to not saying the word that describes the poop of an animal whose name sounds like "full"



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Darn trap beat me :c:

[Trapezium]

*giggles again*

On topic: softglow absolutely owns, but I've never seen it in a tutorial (that I remember, anyway) so nice one, on that front.

[Blazeboy]

Yeah, sooo many filters under the "artistic" section are ignored. Only ones I've ever seen in a tut were GIMPressionist, cubism, and oilify.

[Trapezium]

That's almost half of them. :P

[Blazeboy]

What? Thats only 3/11. On my version of GIMP anyway.