OK.. keeping my promise .. this one teach how you can color up your sig .. For this, the BG would have to be black & white to begin with .. of course using a colored one would do no harm but .. you get the point
To begin with, you need a main picture .. and a BG. Both are covered in this thread so I wont go into detail there .. we start with
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for my BG. made this one with brushes
-AND-
as my main picture
.. urm.. forgive my fanboyism bits there
Putting both together.. we get something like this ...
As you can see its a bit plain with the BG being a bit plain in B&W ...
.. But then again this is what this tutorial is about .. how to color it ^-^
Once you are satisfied with composition of the sig .. and my main image is a bit blurry there.. so I duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) .. on the duplicate layer, Filter->Blur->Gausiann Blurr (Small radius[OK]) and change the layer blending mode to softlight.
Now, its coloring time
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Select the BG layer .. now go to
we are using adjudment layer to give the BG some colors!!!!
Clicking the button will bring you to ...
.. make sure you select the colorize checkbox on bottom right side of the window. It turn on the color choice
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The top slider change the color ... the 2nd control the color contrast and the 3rd slider control the color brightness .. play around till you get a desired main color.
Done? good.. immidiately select the adjustment layer once again and repeat the step above
BUT choose a different contrasting color from the 1st color ..
OK.. now the 2nd adjustment layer is totally block the main color layer from showing right? No worry, make sure that layer is selected .. go to filter->render->cloud.
Happy with the result? Press Ctrl+F to reapply the cloud filter again and again and again till you get a satisfying result
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.. my result
LOL I think I choose a bad color combo
Dont forget to play with the layer blending mode as well
And if you think 2 colors aint enough, just add another adjustment layer. and apply the cloud filter on it as well ...
And try other adjustment layer .. the color adjustment layer can also be use to add colors .. Dont afraid to experiment
OK.. so there.. we added some colors to our sig.. finalized your sig by adding some text and border it up nicely.
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I have to offset my poor choice of color.. so I go wild a bit on few things
.. final sig came out ...
Done.. And a big BOOO to anyone try to steal this one as their own.