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Ultimatechaos · 11-26-2005, 04:43 AM

Tutorial Name: Color Blending Tutorial
Tutorial Author IceCatraz
Date Created: Nov. 25
Tutorial Difficulty Medium

1. Open A new Document, mines 400x130

2. Fill in your BackGround layer with black

3. Create A new layer and switch your Foreground color to white

4. Now this is where your creativity comes in. Take a brush and press it a few times on your new layer. Then, switch brushes, and do the same thing. Keep doing this untill you think it looks good. You can keep it all on one layer if you wish, are keep making new layers and overlaying them, its all up to you.

This is what I have so far, with out the annoying anti-rip text > <
Yours Will look differnt unless you have used the same brushes

5. Now heres where the color part comes in. There are many ways to color blend, but I think this way is very easy. Make a new layer above the brushing layer and get out your gradient tool.

*You should have 3 layers after making this one, the black background layer, the brush layer, and than this layer that you made*

6. You can use any colors you want, but for this I used
C65454- For the Foreground
CC2FF9- For the BackGround
Drag your gradient tool to the left to make a nice red to pruple gradient. You can have it set on Radial or Linear, whatever looks better for you.

7. After you have done this, set the color layer to Overlay, Soft Light or Hardlight, what ever you prefer. This changes the layers blending option and gives our brushing layer a nice color.

8. All thats left is to add a render and text. Get a render, paste it into the sig, ABOVE all of the layers, and cut it out/ resize it to your liking.
After it is resized and cut, you can do 1 of 2 things.

Place the render BELOW the Gradient layer and set it to luminosity to completly blend it
OR
Place it under the gradient layer and leave it alone.
There is no best way out of these two choices, it all depends on the render you use and the shading on it etc.

Your Done! Just add text and a border and your all set.
heres my result

If you have any questions post them here and Ill be glad to help out

11-26-2005, 04:43 AM	#1
Ultimatechaos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 337	Tutorial Name: Color Blending Tutorial Tutorial Author IceCatraz Date Created: Nov. 25 Tutorial Difficulty Medium 1. Open A new Document, mines 400x130 2. Fill in your BackGround layer with black 3. Create A new layer and switch your Foreground color to white 4. Now this is where your creativity comes in. Take a brush and press it a few times on your new layer. Then, switch brushes, and do the same thing. Keep doing this untill you think it looks good. You can keep it all on one layer if you wish, are keep making new layers and overlaying them, its all up to you. This is what I have so far, with out the annoying anti-rip text > < Yours Will look differnt unless you have used the same brushes 5. Now heres where the color part comes in. There are many ways to color blend, but I think this way is very easy. Make a new layer above the brushing layer and get out your gradient tool. You should have 3 layers after making this one, the black background layer, the brush layer, and than this layer that you made 6. You can use any colors you want, but for this I used C65454- For the Foreground CC2FF9- For the BackGround Drag your gradient tool to the left to make a nice red to pruple gradient. You can have it set on Radial or Linear, whatever looks better for you. 7. After you have done this, set the color layer to Overlay, Soft Light or Hardlight, what ever you prefer. This changes the layers blending option and gives our brushing layer a nice color. 8. All thats left is to add a render and text. Get a render, paste it into the sig, ABOVE all of the layers, and cut it out/ resize it to your liking. After it is resized and cut, you can do 1 of 2 things. Place the render BELOW the Gradient layer and set it to luminosity to completly blend it OR Place it under the gradient layer and leave it alone. There is no best way out of these two choices, it all depends on the render you use and the shading on it etc. Your Done! Just add text and a border and your all set. heres my result If you have any questions post them here and Ill be glad to help out __________________ [<a href=\"http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5791/untitled1copy5ju.png\" target=\"_blank\">+</a>\|<a href=\"http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5791/untitled1copy5ju.png\" target=\"_blank\">+</a>\|<a href=\"http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/2879/notcopy7mr.png\" target=\"_blank\">+</a>\|<a href=\"http://img428.imageshack.us/img428/9396/chems9ts.gif\" target=\"_blank\">+</a>\|<a href=\"http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/8215/untitled1copy2ap.png\" target=\"_blank\">+</a>\|<a href=\"http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/4905/mariofromdarth9li.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:red\">x</span></a>\|<a href=\"http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/6192/siigies2ap.png\" target=\"_blank\">+</a>] <span style=\"color:blue\">[</span><span style=\"color:red\">-----------------------------</span><span style=\"color:blue\"><u>Latest</u></span><span style=\"color:red\">--------------------------------</span><span style=\"color:blue\">]</span> <img src=\"http://img310.imageshack.us/img310/4895/untitled3copy3fk.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IPB Image\" /> <span style=\"color:blue\">[</span><span style=\"color:red\">-----------------------------</span><span style=\"color:blue\"><u>Current</u></span><span style=\"color:red\">-------------------------------</span><span style=\"color:blue\">]</span> <img src=\"http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/1616/diazcopy3jw.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IPB Image\" />