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Introduction: This tutorial was originally written by Dragon from Gamerenders, and sliced and rewritten by Base from signaturestop. Thanks Dragon for sharing your great tutorials with everyone!

In this tutorial we will be creating this Aquanox wallpaper manipulation with the use of several filter effects and cinema4d renders:

1. Start with your wallpaper, and resize this to fit your signature. We used a 390 by 130 pixels file. Place it nicely into your canvas.

2. We can use the blur tool to create depth into our signature. On our render, we’re going to blur the left side of the image. Grab the blur tool, and start brushing:

3. We’re going to use the displace filter. This can be a bit tricky and really changes your outcome depending on what setting you use. You can find a tutorial about displacing in our Filter Effects section. Displace the image, and remove pieces that are on top of your render.

4. We’re going to add in an abstract Cinema4D render. Resize this layer if you need to. We use a tentacle render, and will place it in such a way that it won’t look weird in our final result. Try not to just slap it in there, but think about its position.

our cinema4d render:

our canvas:

5. Fill a new layer with black, and use a soft white brush to add some lighting to our layer. Set this layers blending mode to ColorDodge on 100% opacity.

our soft brushing layer:

our canvas after applying color dodge:

6. We’re going to add a wind effect to our image. Because the wind effect only works horizontally, we’re going to rotate our signature first. Apply your image onto a new layer ( Image > Apply Image…) and go to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 degrees CW.

Now go to Filter > Stylize > Wind (use the default settings or toy around with them) and rotate your image back to where it was (Edit > Transform, Rotate 90 degrees CCW)

Remove some of the parts that look bad or that cover the render, this is our layer after applying the effect:

our canvas afterwards:

7. Since our signature still looks somewhat boring, we’re going to add some more renders into our signature in the following steps. Try having it following flow or lighting of your signature. First we picked an abstract cinema4d file:

our canvas after applying:

8. We’re adding in an effect Cinema4d render, and erased parts that we don’t need. We’ve set this layer to lighten on 100%:

our result:

9. For the next step, we’re going to use our Burn, Dodge and Sharpening tool, and we’re going to liquify our background. Go to filter > Liquify, and play aroudn with the background until you’re satisfied:

Last but not least, apply a Topaz filter:

10. Add a boder, finnishing touches, and you’re done!

result in high quality:

remember to experiment with the steps and techniques. Thanks a lot to Dragon for writing this tutorial!