Obama's Sig Tutorial - Energy

Hey guys. Well i've had a few requests for this tutorial now, so i'd thought i would take you through the basic steps on how to create something similar. Be patient and take your time.


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Ok so first off you want to create a new document (500x500) and place in your stock/render. A drawing works well with this.

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Grab a scanline brush, or any brush. You should always have brushes, if you don't google some and stock up.

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Duplicate the scanline a few times and rotate like shown. Then merge these to one layer.

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Duplicate the brushed layer and roate and place it on the other side.

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Add in a C4D. Again you should download loads of C4Ds if you don't have any. Just google "C4D packs". Place one in behind the stock and erase the left side.


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I then got the C4D again. Rotated it and placed it on the left side. Erasing any unwanted bits.


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Got the C4D and placed it once more behind the stock, this time at the bottom to start to blend in the stock.

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To blend the stock in more, i duplicated our brush layer form earlier and placed it underneth.

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Now the idea of this tutorial is to build up layer so we don't see any white coming through and the focal blends right in. Here i made a grey rectangle and lowered its opactity. You can see the difference in the bottom right.

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Now with a large black soft brush, on a new layer behind everything, just brushed from the center and lower the opacity. This is again to darken it and get rid of more white space.

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This light here is from a bubble C4D. Don't resize the C4d, insted place in the document and set its mode to linear-dodge, this will ignore the black in the C4D. then erase the C4D until you are left with a single bubble to create some lighting. With lighting you should always think about where you place it and make sure it looks natural.

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Now he i noticed that his hat was cut off from the stock so i added in a white rectangle. I then got the same C4D, and erase to leave lighting at the top. Again set this layer to linear dodge.

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The orange bit here is from a fractal brush set to orange. I brushed once behind the C4Ds. This orange is to make it more colourfull. Always choose colours near each other in the colour wheel so they compliment each other.

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Here i wanted to blend the stock in more so i added a photo filter, with a warm orange colour at 25%

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I felt i wanted to emphisise the lighting and darken dark bits. A good way to do this is using a B/W gradient map. On this one i set it to soft light at 75%.

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Add in your text and your done! Remember when doing text it wants to compliment the image. here for example, the image is bold so i wanted a bold text so it stood out. Take your time with text as it will make or break your sig .

Hope you learned something. This is only a beginner/novice tutorial, so i hope it was understandable enough .

Thanks, please post outcomes


Energy


WHEN DOING TUTORIALS, DO NOT STICK TO WHAT THE TUTORIAL USES. MIX THINGS UP. USE DIFFERENT RENDERS, COLOURS AND STYLES - TO MAKE YOUR SIG UNIQUE.



Usefull PS tips:

- Increase your history states in preferences. it is annoying when you run out.

- Like i said earlier, download loads of stocks, brushes, effects and C4Ds so you always have something to use.

- Masks help with mistakes aswell. (refer to my SWF tutorials for how to use masks).

I can't think of anymore atm. Happy PS'in


+ rep, thanks as always is appreciated