Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Time: 5 minutes
1. First of all, we need a cool brush set. Google for it! After you downloaded the brushes you need to place them in right folder. Go to Adobe instal map (Mostly you will fint it in C:/Program Files/adobe). Double click on the adobe map, go to Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Or another version, depending on wich one you use), than Presets/Brushes and copy the downloaded ABR files in there.
2. Lets open a new document in PS, size doesn't matter, I make it 375*140. Press D to reset your colors and go to FIlter > Render > Clouds. Your sig will look something like this now:
3. Next thing we do, is load the new brushes in your brush pallet. Select your Brush tool (B) on your toolbar and press the little arrow (Marked blue in the image below) to open your brushes.
4, Now press the arrow on the right (market with blude circle below) to open up another menu. Go to load brushes and load all the downloaded brushes you have. After you load them you can find them back in the inventory you see below:
5. Select one you like, and brush a little on you clouds. Not to much, just a little. Take a look at the example below.
The foreground color is still black (remember when I asked you to press D earlier). I used a grunge brush and hit the left mouse button only 3 times on different locations of the background.
6. It already looks cool now, but we are not finished yet. Pres X once, to change the foregorund color to white and make a new layer (shift + ctrl + N). Choose a different brush than the first one and brush a little on your new layer untill your satisfied. I got this:
7. Repat this step a few times (unless you're allready happy with the current results) making new layers and change each time with X from black to white, black to white ect. (Mostly I make like, 5 or 6 layers like this). Make sure you use different brushes each time (The brushes you use have to fit well with eachother, otherwise you will mess thing up Bir time!). Another thing you can do is play a bit with the opacity of the different layers. Feel free to experiment with it untill you're satisfied with result. Here is my final outcome of the background.
8. We can still do a few tricks on the background. For example, go to Image > adjustments > brightness / contrast and set brightness to +15 and contrast to +40. Look at the image below for the results of this settings. It gives a little glowing effect to the black / white image. All we have to do now is give it some color, a nice render and some text. Look at other tuts if you don't know how to do it.
9. Here is the sig finished after some work. Good luck trying and feel free to try other things (like different filters ect..)
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