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In this tutorial we will be making this tag designed by Anima. The only stock we will be using is the render of the pretty woman. We will create some sort of rainbow effect with the gradient tool to give the tag its color. This tag relies heavily on your abilities with the smudge tool and your creativity. The background is entirely made out of brushing and smudging. The result of this tutorial:

1. Start by creating a new file. Our size was set to 368 by 98 pixels. Fill this with a random colored gradient:

2. We’re going to create a background with the use of the smudge and brush tool. To illustrate how our background was designed, here are the layers shown in one large image. Try using a soft brush for the smudging and brushing. Sorry for the watermark!

our result at this point:

Here’s an animation to illustrate how the brushing and smudging was done:

3. Grab a good looking render, one that fits your canvas. Place it on your canvas. In the following steps we will blend this in, so don’t erase and smudge this render yet.

4. Create a new layer, and start brushing lightly on top. Smudge this a bit:

5. Repeat this step, softly brush over your render and smudge:

6. Repeat, smudge and lighten areas around your focal and fix bad looking areas:

7. Zoom in, and with your Pencil Tool tap randomly around your focal with a light color picked using the eyedropper tool. If you decide to change color later, you can use the Color Overlay layer style to easily change it.

Keep doing this, our result:

8. We’re going to work on the right section of the tag now. Brush softly to the right of our render, and smudge this a bit:

9. Repeat the previous step, and add some more pixels to the right of your render:

10. Add some lighter dots as well, our result:

11. We’re going to change the colors around a bit. Make a new layer, and apply the image (Image > Apply Image). Click on the adjustments window, and select Curves. Now you can either change the curves yourself, or click on the Auto button, Photoshop will choose the settings itself.

Our result:

12. Apply the image on a new layer, and use the Curves tool again. Just change it slightly to get some good looking colors.

13. Add a Color Balance adjustment layer, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance, and play around with the settings. These are the settings we’ve picked:

The result after adding the adjustment layer:

14. This step is optional, create a new layer, and apply the image (Image > Apply Image), and select Image > Transform > Flip Horizontally. Our result:

15. Go to adjustments again, curves, and select the auto settings. In the layer mask settings, brush a section of the image black to hide its effect:

The layer mask:

16. The result we have at this point:

17. Make a new layer, and apply the image. We’re going to blur this layer, and set it to Pin Light. Select Filter > Blur > Blur More, and blur until most of the details are gone:

Set this layer to Pin light:

18. Make a new layer, and add a white dot with a soft brush near your focal. This is our lighting shown on a black background.

The result shown on our tag:

19. We’re going to use a nice technique to create a rainbow that will colourize our tag. Make sure you set it to Angle Gradient:

The gradient colors, just use random bright colors:

This is the gradient shown with blending mode set to normal:

20. Set this layers blending mode to Screen, and keep the opacity on 100%:

21. We’re going to strengthen the color effect, duplicate the rainbow layer, but reduce the fill to about 30%:

22. Make another gradient at the sides to color that part a bit, set its blending mode to screen afterwards.

Its blending mode set to screen:

23. Create another tiny gradient close to your render, and set it to screen once again:

24. Apply the image on a new layer, and set its layer style to Pin light.

25. add a border if you like, some text, this is our final result!

Thank you for viewing this tutorial. We would really appreciate any comments and suggestions!