Grundge Signature Tutorial by Count Flip

**The Black Reaper** · August 24, 2006, 03:57 AM

1. ok find a render of an image of what you want…. If you cant find one find a large sized file of the image you want and render it.
2. open it up in photoshop and start a new document with all of these settings..

3. drag the render into the new document and resize it until you think it feels right…something like this

4. duplicate the image and resize the image until the new layer covers the whole document..

5. get out your smudge tool set up the brush anyway you want and put the strength to about 50 percent…

6. now just smudge the whole picture like this below

7. Go to filter and then down until you see blur then then select gaussian blur.

8. Set the blur to about 0.5

9. Duplicate the original render (the image in the beginning) and drag it up to the front where you can see it…

10. Select Gaussian Blur and set it to 4.0

11. Now duplicate the render again and smudge that layer

12. now go into this menu and select screen

13. Duplicate the render once more and select your lasso tool and set the feather to 15 pixels..

14. use the lasso tool and just outline the render… then right click and select inverse then press delete twice and it should look like this

15. deselect it and go to layer and select new layer… then go to image then apply image…

16. now go back to Gaussian blur and set it to 3.0 this time….

17. go back to the blending menu (I think that’s what its called ) and select lighten… it should look a little bit like this….

18. now take the lasso tool again and select pieces of the face where you think its to bright and press delete.…

19. now repeat step 15 and 17 but instead of lighten do hard light…

20. now select the places of the image where you think its to dark with the lasso tool and press delete..

21. now you can add words to it or add an outline… if this is a popular tutorial and enough ppl want it I can show how you can have the blended in borders…. Ok this is Graffiti signing off…

P.S. Oh yea this is the finished product…

*edit* Post Your Results so everybody can see what you guys made with this tutorial

**imthefrgt10** · August 24, 2006, 04:03 AM

pretty nifty there grafitti, isnt using the eraser tool easier than the lasso too?

**The Black Reaper** · August 24, 2006, 04:05 AM

nope... the eraser tool deletes the image.... when you use the lasso tool and delete it it brightens, darkens certain things... also lasso is more precise then the free hand eraser tool

**imthefrgt10** · August 24, 2006, 04:12 AM

Originally Posted by Graffiti

nope... the eraser tool deletes the image.... when you use the lasso tool and delete it it brightens, darkens certain things... also lasso is more precise then the free hand eraser tool

well geez come over and use gimp, you can add they clouds as another layer and select that layer to erase from, making it much easier, i think i should make a tutorial, email me the pic you used and ill make one for gimp