Abstract Lighting Tutorial for Adobe Photoshop

 

 

 

Written by Bepo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 1: Start with a normal backround, can be created with whatever program you want.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2: Select a portion of the background you think would look good as a sig. You might think that it looks good as it is, but there's alot you can do to make it look better ;)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3: Now we need to turn iut black and white. To do this we first make a new layer and fill it with black. Set the blending mode to color, and merge the two layers (ctrl + E).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 4: Take your dodge tool and use it to lighten up some areas. Use around 50% exposure and lighten up the areas you want to be lighter. Now change the exposure to 20% and just brush around the edges of the already dodged areas to make it blend in more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tip: Use the highlights mode for range to only lighten up the lighter parts of your render. Changing the size of the brush will help brushing in the smaller areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When your done it should look like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5: Time to give it some color! You can use the hue and saturation tool (ctrl + u) to give it color (make sure to check the colorize box) or you can create a color layer with the right color you want, and set its blending mode to color.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 6: Add text and you have yourself a nice abstract sig!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Bepo

oh yes, love the after part of the new 1

oh yes, love the after part of the new 1

Thanks :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Bepo

Steps 2-6 sound easy.

Steps 2-6 sound easy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yea.. it's the first part that's hard, lol.

 

Steps 2-6 sound easy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yea.. it's the first part that's hard, lol.

True, but you can find good tutorials for backgrounds easy, so just make one based on a tutorial and you can use that :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Bepo

Edited alot of it, made some changes :D bump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Bepo

~sExY~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol: