'Mehbeh' Tag

In the tutorial, I said I'd provide the resources used in a .rar/.zip file, but the only things I used were some splatter brushes (not sure which), a cutout from Sneakybaron and then a C4D which I made: [link]
stinky666.deviantart.com for more free resources.

Break Away

stinky666.deviantart.com = more free stuff.

650x16,000px / 3mb / .PNG / PSP+PS Compatible
Although this was done for [and in] Paint Shop Pro, the tutorial is both compatible for PSP and Photoshop.

Glass effect using gradients (PSP9)

open up an image 100X100 select a colour for your foreground colour box. I'm using #94288e

For your background colour box select a lighter shade of the same colour. i'm using #c337bb

click on the foreground colour box and select gradient with these settings

and fill the image

create a new layer and select the top half of the image and colour pick directly below the selection

click on the background colour box and chose a much lighter shade and reverse the colour boxes.

then fill the selection.

and adjust the opacity of the layer till it looks right for you. I have it at about 80%.

and that's all there is to it ;D

Signature Backgrounds

Im gonna let you in on a little secret of mine. What little secret? Well, in a few of my sigs i use a 'certain' way to get great looking effects by doing few, and easy steps. I do it using Paint Shop Pro 9. This is being done in PSP 9, but it may be possible to do in other programs, im not sure. (It depends if there is a 'Negative Image' option, or a similar one.)

1. Ok, first off, make a new image. Any size, mine is 300x100pixels (Width by Height)

2. Now, if your canvas is transparent, fill it with either black, or white. This next bit doesnt involve much skill, but you need some brushes. (search deviantart for some if you have none already - I am using some brushes from there that were created by destiny) Now, select your brush tool, and using the colors black and white (#000000 - black and #FFFFFF - white) randomly place brushes on your canvas. It doesnt have to look great or anything, mine doesnt at this point:

3. Now, duplicate that layer, and set the blend mode to 'Difference', now go to Adjust > Color Balance > Negative Image. My result:

And voila, thats it lol. I also added a bit more brushing on a new raster layer, just to give it a little more. But it wasnt much brushing, and i set the blend mode to overlay.

Then i added a new layer (raster) and added a border:

To add color, simply make a new layer below your border layer, and then paste a render into it, now go to blur and use motion blur, and then duplicate your layer a few times moving each layer about, then merge the render layers together and set the blend mode to either Overlay, Hardlight, or Softlight. And voila, color yay!!! Also add text and anything else you want ;)

Starry Sky

This tutorial will help you if you intend to make a realistic night sky.

1. Start with a dark background color. Black, dark blue, whatever. Example

2. Here's the trick. GO to Effects-->Artistic Effects-->Balls and Bubbles. The settings you will need are as follows: Select the "Automatic multiple Balls or bubbles" option. Coverage: 10 (change this depending on how many stars you want) Average size: 0 Size Variation: 50 Balls or Bubbles type: Intersecting It might not look very "starry" yet, but just wait. Click the "surface" tab. Make the settings as follows: Opacity: 0 Shininess: 100 Gloss: 0 Under the Maps tab, just make sure nothing is checked. Under Illumination: Ambience Maximum: 100 (min doesn't matter) Individual Light properties: Make there be only one light, either by adding or removing some. Make the color of that light white and set the hightlight size to 10. Finally, click OK.

YOu should get something like this: Here

If you wish to make a more detailed sky, make several layers of these stars and set the opacity levels differently. You can use this technique to make snow by increasing the highlight size too.

Happy starmaking!

Abstract Signature

This tutorial will teach you how to make an effective abstract signature. Photoshop users: This effect can be reproduced in that program but you need to know what you are doing.

Creating a Sig

Resource: A sig tut for GFX n00bs.
About: A basic sig guide that shows the steps on how to make a signature for PSP XI.

Easy Borders

1. Ok lets start this off by first taking out your image that you want to add a border too. This could be a signature, avatar, or even a box.

2.Next you need to decide what color you want your border to be (personally I think black looks the best since it stands out a lot more). To do this just simply look around your screen till you see the word STYLES underneath this should be 2 boxes connected by a two-headed arrow. Click on the bottom box and change the color to black.

3. Now simply go to the menu bar and go to image -> add borders and put your settings at 1 for everything and check the symmetric box if it is not. 4. This will merge all your layers and add a 1pixel border around the whole image.

-Injection

Inside Borders

heres a EX of an inside border

What you do is create a sig lets say 400 x 100 like this sig then after you make it make another image a little bit smaller if it was 400 x 100 make the new image 395 x 95 or 385 x 85 then add borders to it with with these settings

then sellect the magic wand

then put it directly over the border like this:

then select it so its only highlighting the whole border like:

after you cut it right click on an empty space and past it just to see that u got just the border like this:

after making sure go to your sig go to it and right click and past the new border you made and put it right in the middle like this:

then add a border and there you go!

Jay Z tag Tutorial

Create a stylish signature using an image of Jay Z. Make use of the clipping mask, brushes and the colour balance tool.

Light Beam

1. Start a new image 300x500 Pixels Raster bg 16 million colors Transparent bg

2. Fill the raster/bg with black. Go to the layer properties, and set the blend mode to darken, and the opacity to 80%.

3. Create a new raster, with the blend mode as color. Name it "color" fill it with 88C4FF. [u]All[/u], and I repeat all, layers after this should go under this layer. So at the end, the layer "color" should be at the top.

4. Make a new vector, and name it "beam". Select the Pen tool. Choose line segments as the segments type, anti-alias, width 20, foreground color white. Draw a line straight down the middle. Estimate the length to about the image below Convert the layer to a raster layer. Then go to Adjust>>Blur>>Gaussian Blur. Put the radius to 7.50 Should now lookl like:

5. Create a new raster layer and name it circle. Go to the selection tool, choose a circle, and make a circle at the bottom of the beam, look below to estimate where it should be. Fill the selection with white. Go to Gaussian Blur again, this time with a radius of 15.

6. Create a new raster, and name it "motion". Select the airbrush, using sizes 5-15, hardness 100, step: 1, density: 100, 0 rotation, opacity 100, blend mode normal, rate: 5. Just click dots right next to the beam, don't stop until you have quite a good number of them, all around it, but not by the circle. When done, go to Adjust>>Blur>>Motion blur and enter these settings: Direction: 180 Strength: 50 Then go back to motion blur, with the same direction and 100 strength.

7. Create a new vector, and name it "rings". Go to the shape tool. Choose retain style, create as vector, and anti-alias. Width of 1. Make 3 elipses with more width that height, and be sure to make it look like it could be a circle going around the beam if done properly. You can look at the image below to look for an example of width and height, and location. Convert it to a raster layer. Set white as the foreground color, and black as the bg color. Choose the color replacer tool, and click with the left button of the mouse over all of the elipses. They should turn white. Go to Effects>>3D Effects>>Drop Shadow, and enter these settings: Offset: Horizontal: 0 Vertical: 0 Attributes: Opacity: 100% Blur: 10 Color: White Shadow On New Layer: Unchecked Repeat that again. Then go to Adjust>>Blur>>Blur

Note: Just pretend that gray line on the edge isn't there. I messed up. You can play around with the circle layer, and make it look like something else. I, myself, like making it look like it's hitting something and refracting off, you can see that in the other examples above^^. Also, you can apply different bg's and try that out, though I suggest something dark like. If you have any extra effects that you found pleasing, post the extra steps for others to use please. Also, please post what you get by using this tutorial.

PSP8 Tutorial - Photo to Portrait

First, load up the image you want to use. i'll be using this:

First, load up your image, and make sure you have the window selected. Press CTRL+A, and make sure that you can see the 'Photo' Toolbar. go to enhance photo, and click on 'one step photo fix':

You should get something like this:

Keep using one step photo finish, untill you get the image you want!

My final image:

Scan Lines

Want scan lines like:

or like:

??

all you have to do is make a sig or image and fall this screen shot:

then make it with thease settings:

to make the scan lines like the 1st sig. and

if you want it like the second sig. and if u want it any other way just mess with the settings and there you go!

If you want an render or text to blend in with the scan lines, just click on the layer like:

and do the same go to effexts > texture effects > then blinds and set the same settings you did for the sig and there yeah go!!

Oddness Prevails Signature Tutorial

It more than likely can be done in PS, so if you wanna give it a shot, feel free to, just don't be asking me "how do I do this bit in PS", 'cos I more than likely won't know.

In the tutorial you should learn quite a few new things. Ranging from using effects and resources to get colour onto your signature, to using the pattern material to create a "clipping mask" kind of effect (clipping mask = PhotoShop feature).