Oni Link Sig Tutorial - Photoshop [***]

Oni Link Sig Tutorial - Photoshop

Hello, and welcome. Today you will learn to make a sig like this one with Oni Link in it using Photoshop.



This is a stock sig and this tut will teach you how to add nice effects and such to a stock. I learned a few of these techniques from other tuts, and I'm here to review with you how to use them the way I do and make them blend and flow with the signature. Let us begin.

Step 1: Start with a blank canvas. This one is obvious. Then copy and paste your stock, as shown below.



Step 2: Next we'll apply a gradient map. Go to Layer>Add Adjustment Layer>Gradient Map to do this. Then go with the black and white and set it to 57% opacity. If you have PS 5.0 or a version of PS that doesn't have this effect, you can imitate the gradient map effect by making a new layer (Layer>Add New Layer), applying a gradient to it, setting it to lumnosity, and then lowering the opacity. After applying the technique, you should get something that looks like this.



Step 3: Now it's time to apply a clipping mask. Take a good splatter brush and splatter it on a new layer next to the focal point of your stock. Erase parts you don't like. Hide the layer by clicking the eye icon next to that layer. Now make another new layer. Click Image>Apply Image and your sig image will appear. Now press Ctrl + Alt + G and unhide your splatter brush layer. Move around the apply image layer until you see it to your liking. Then apply a slight glow effect to the splatter brushes to give them a nice look. Go to Layer>Layer Style and set the glow opacity to 75%, the spread to 3, and the size to 6. Your image should look something like this now.



Step 4: Next we'll apply a nice abstract render. These are a bit different than C4Ds and are much nicer most of the time in my opinion. Anyway, copy and paste it onto your image and set it to soft light at 100% opacity. Move it around and even past it again if you need to. Erase parts you don't like. In this case, the soft light should also nicely darken the colors of the sig, like this.



Step 5: Repeat step 3 and add a clipping mask of splatter brushes in the top right corner, as such. Add the same glow effect.



Step 6: Next, we're going to add one more clipping mask effect, but a little differently this time. Click the rectangular marquee tool (the dotted box ibutton) and make a long rectangle. Use the fill bucket to fill it with back. Copy it a few times and tilt them at the desired angle. Erase portions if you'd like. Now do the clipping mask thing described in step 3. But the glow effect is not needed. Erase parts you don't like afterward. It should look like this now.



Step 7: We're almost done. Click the rectangular marquee tool again and make a small rectangle at one edge of the sig. Apply a foreground-transparent gradient of a gray color and set it to lumnosity at 100% opacity. It should look like this.



Step 8: Now we apply the text. I made the main text bigger, a darker color, and set it to lumnosity at 100%. I made the subtext white, smaller, and set it to lumnosity at 80%. You should get something that looks like what I've done here.



Step 9: Now add the border and you're done!



I hope this tut has taught you some new things and has helped you some. If you want to know more about clipping masks, check out Ed's Mario sig tut. She expands on it more there. :]

Very nice tut, gonna use it sometime