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In this tutorial we will be making this Megan Fox tag, originally designed by Hauntedgravity. We will use splatter brushes and cinema4d effects to create the composition and texture. You can find these brushes, renders and more in our resources section.

Result:

1. Find a good wallpaper, render or image, and place it on a 390 by 200 pixel canvas (size is not that important though). We’ve centered our focal point in this tag:

2. Right click on this layer, and duplicate it. Grab the burn tool, and start burning around the edges and some parts of our focal point:

burning:

3. Next, grab your eyedropper tool, and select a lightish color on your canvas. Brush close to your focal, and slightly smudge this brushing with the smudge tool. Try not to overdo it. To illustrate what we’ve done, this is our brushing shown on a black background:

shown on our render:

4. Duplicate this render, and set its blending mode to Lighten:

5. Repeat this step on the right side, brush and smudge, then duplicate the layer and set it to lighten. Our brushing:

our result:

6. Keep repeating this until you’re satisfied. Try not to overdo it to keep the tags general color scheme and feeling. Remember to set the layers to Lighten.

result:

7. Place a wireframe Cinema4d render on top of the tag, and erase parts around the focal. Set this wireframe layers blending mode to Multiply:

blending mode set to multiply:

8. Grab a splatter brush, and tap once around your render. If you’ve picked the wrong color, simply add a color overlay by going to Layer > Layer Style > Color Overlay, and select a new color.

9. Add a light render next to your focal, and set its blending mode to lighten. Repeat this step on the left side. To illustrate what our render looks like, we’ve set a black background behind it:

blending mode set to lighten:

10. We’re going to fix the lighting now. In the following steps we will add adjustment layers. To do this, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer… and select the layer we need.

We’re going to start with a Brightness/Contrast layer with the following settings:

11. A black to white gradient map set to Soft Light on 20% opacity with these settings:

12. Another gradient map set to Soft Light and 20% opacity, purple to orange:

13. A Photo Filter set to soft light on 20% opacity:

our result after applying the adjustment layers:

14. Make a new layer, and apply the image (Image > Apply Image), and grab your burn tool again. Add more depth by darkening the section around your focal area:

burning areas around our focal:

15. Keep burning until you’re satisfied, then add your text in a good spot. The tags nearly done by now:

16. Apply the image once more, and select Filter > Sharpen. Erase areas that come off too strong, or reduce the opacity.

Done! We hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial, feel free to post comments, questions and suggestions!