Home About Us Affiliates Job Openings Contact Us History of HM Affiliation Privacy Policy Editorials Trophy Hall HM Galleries HM Reviews HM Awards HM Email Socerer's Stone Chamber of Secrets Prisoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire Order of the Phoenix Half-Blood Prince Deathly Hallows Other HP Books Book Mistakes Name Origins Recipes Socerer's Stone Chamber of Secrets Prisoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire Order of the Phoenix Half Blood Prince Contact the Cast OoTP Trailer Page Biography Wizard of the Month Official Site Magical Decrees Founders Ghosts Houses Staff Social Order History of Magic Quidditch Ask Merlin Wizard Money Dumbledore's Army Communication Creatures Transportation Dark Arts Animagus Horcruxes Spells Wands Azkaban Diagon Alley Leaky Cauldron St. Mungos Hogsmeade Village Other Places Ask the Webmaster Helpful Websites CSS Tutorial PHP Includes Hosting Guide Photoshop Tutorials HTML Tutorials	In this tutorial I will show you how to make a signature like this: Resources used in this tutorial: Dark Crystal Script Font Rust and Grunge Brushes Link Render Brushing the background 1) Create a new canvas (I used 340x120) 2) Fill the background layer with black 3) Load your brushes 4) Set your foreground to white 5) Create a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) 6) Brush the background white until it covers the whole canvas, just don't overlap to much 7) Create a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) 8) Keep switching back and forth between black and white over the parts appropiate, (ex. if its to dark click once with white, if its to light click once with black over it) 9) Change the layer Fill Opacity 10) Merge the layers so its all in the background layer Adding Color 11) Create a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) and put it on top 12) Fill the layer with the color you want to use, I'm using #007236 13) Change the layer to Soft Light 14) Now to even out the signatures brightness and darkness out. If your signature is still really dark or really light in places, make a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) above the background layer and repeat steps 8 and 9. Once you get it to look good, merge the layer down with the background. 15) You can merge all the layers now Adding the render (Image) 16) Open the render you want in photoshop (You can find renders at www.planetrenders.net ) 17) Drag the render onto the background you just made 18) Delete the background, preferbly using the magic wand tool Before: After: 19) Resize the render to the size you want by using Transform (CTRL+T) and drag the corners, press SHIFT while dragging to keep the image the same height and width Modifying the render 20) Duplicate the render layer (CTRL+J) 21) With the bottom render layer selected, go to "Filter > Blur > Motion Blur" and put the settings at something around 36 for distance and you decide on the direction depending on where your render is. I used 29, click OK 22) Now some of the border may have been affected by the blur because all the background wasn't taken off, if so just delete the extra's Before: After: 23) Merge the 2 render layers (CTRL+E on the top render layer) 24) Change the render layer to Luminosity 25) If you need to move the render somewhere, do it now. Note: You should have 2 layers now, 1 for the background and one for the render Adding Text - Probaly the hardest part alone when making a singature 26) Select the text tool and click where you want your text to be, type in whatever you want 27) Edit the font and size for the text to whatever you want (I am using "Dark Crystal Script" and a font size of 32) 28) Double click the text layer to open the blending options setting 29) Here's the settings I used Drop Shadow Color Overlay Stroke 30) Move the text if you don't like where it is Adding a border 31) Reset the foreground and background (D) 32) Create a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) 33) Press (CTRL+A) 34) Edit > Stroke, these settings 35) Same settings except a width of 2px and white as the color 36) Same settings except a width of 1px and black as the color 37) If you want, change the blending options to overlay or soft light (I left mine as normal for this one) Saving 38) I'd save tfhe graphic as a PSD incase you need to change text or something and / or 39) Save it as a .jpg and use the default Quality settings Ending result:	What do you think of the new layout? Excellent Great Good Alright Bad Change      Results Link Us Fan Art Become A Partner HBP Trailer Weekly Myspace Fan New Staff Members! Updated Information Sept. 1st, 2008 Soon To Come! Site: Online Awards: Offline Galleries: Offline Reviews: Offline Layout By: Theresa of