[Resslerd]

This tutorial is for Photoshop only. I may make these same lessons in GIMP if I install it later on.

Clipping masks will be the hardest thing you have done by far. If you feel that you need to practice more with your other techniques before this one, please do that. Ever wanted to brush part of an image rather than a color? Well, clipping masks let you do that. In this tutorial, you will make a sig that is NOT meant to be used, but the important thing is that you learn how to use clipping masks.

Save multiple times during your sig making ALWAYS, just in case Photoshop freezes.

We are going to continue off of our step eleven of my previous tutorial.

Step One: Open up your .psd of the previous lesson.


Step Two: Download this brush set. http://www.deviantart.com/download/2...zzsplatter.abr

Step Three: Select your brush tool.

Step Four: Go to here (a little hard to explain in words) and navigate to where you unzipped your brush set to.


Step Five: Create a new layer on top of your sig.

Step Six: Brush with one or two of your new splatter brushes with any color in one small area. (Get original)


Step Seven: Hide this brushed layer and make a new layer on top of it and apply image on it.

Step Eight: Unhide your brushed layer and right click the applied image and click "create clipping mask". (your two layers should look like this now)


Step Nine: Move your new "clipping mask" (applied image layer) around until it looks cool. (What this does is it replaces your color with the image that you did a clipping mask with)


Step Ten: Do steps 5-9 multiple times.


Steps eleven and on are COMPLETELY optional

Step Eleven: Select your line tool and make it have a weight of 5 pixels.


Step Twelve: Click and drag it to create a "path" somewhere that goes with your flow (don't worry if you don't know what this means).


Step Thirteen: Make a new layer and right click your image anywhere and click fill path and fill it with any color. (press enter to get rid of the lines around it)


Step Fourteen (optional): Duplicate your filled layer (ctrl - j) and move it around to create multiple bars, then select all your bar layers (ctrl - click each layer) and right click one of the selected layers and click merge layers.


Step Fifteen: Do your new layer, apply image, clipping mask thing again and drag it around until it looks cool.


MAKE SURE YOU SAVE IT RIGHT NOW AS A .PSD

Look for number four, it will teach you how to put some more touches on this sig.

YAY you are done with my third tutorial.
~Thank you.

You can PM me to request that I do a tutorial as well.

[SinX]

XD you made a slight mistake here I guess you should teach them about flow before you let them use it in a sig XD
another trick on selecting all layer easily just click the top layer the hold shift and click the last layer you want to choose and there ya go easy slect ^^

[Resslerd]

Well, I am going to make some more probably about flow, depth, etc. a little later on.

[`Near`]

it's kinda cool but lemme say my comments:

1. make sure that your background theme is connected to your render.
2. Need to add more lighting with that.
3. Depth.

^Thanks for the Tutorial by the way...^_^

[Resslerd]

Originally Posted by `Near`

it's kinda cool but lemme say my comments:

1. make sure that your background theme is connected to your render.
2. Need to add more lighting with that.
3. Depth.

^Thanks for the Tutorial by the way...^_^

Well this is for newbies, so they don't need to know some of the more complicated and technical stuff.

[`Near`]

^

Oh I see.. Well that's also suited for me because i'm also a beginner. O