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Welcome to a Metal Gear Solid Signature tutorial. This signature has an optional colored outcome. We will be using some cinema4d renders, and the smudge and blur tool. This signature PSD was originally made by nFx. Before you start, find some cinema4d renders and a metal gear solid picture or some other type of stock. Premium members can download the signature PSD file in the Premium members section. The outcome of the tutorial:

Create a new signature by selecting File > New File. The size was set to 420 pixels by 160 pixels.

Find some cinema4d renders. You can download some renders in our temporary Resources section. Erase some of the render, and change the blending mode to Screen.

Paste another render on the canvas. You can find this render here. Resize it (CTRL + T or edit > transform > free transform), erase it, whatever you like:

Add another render on the signature, and blur this a lot. To do this, you can either use the blur tool, or select Filter > Blur > Blur More, and repeat this step a few times.

The render blurred:

Change this renders blending mode to Hard Light. To do this, select Hard Light from the dropdown menu while you have your layer selected:

This should color the renders:

Add a metal gear solid render, and paste it somewhere on your signature. Resize it (CTRL + T) if it doesn’t fit in.

Add another render on the signature, and blur it a lot. Erase the area covering the Metal Gear Solid render.

Change the blending mode to Hard Light again:

Another cinema4d render, erase the sides and the area covering the metal gear solid render:

Change the blending mode to either Color Dodge or Hard Light. Notice the colors are starting to become interesting:

Repeating the last few steps. Add another lightish material or render, and blur it. Erase the section covering the metal gear solid character.

Experiment with the blending modes, set this layer to either Overlay or Hard Light.

Time to start blending the metal gear solid character into the background.We’re going to do this with the use of Adjustment Layers. First of all, create a gradient map by selecting Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map. When you click on the gradient, the gradient window comes up. Select the premade Purple to Orange gradient:

Reduce the opacity and fill of this layer to about 35:

Add a Photo Filter. (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Photo Filter). We’ve selected Deep Yellow:

Signature after the Photo Filter:

We’re going to apply the image and blur it. To do so, select Image > Apply Image:

Then select Filter > Blur > Blur More.

Outcome:

Now erase the area covering the metal gear solid render:

Apply the image on a new layer again (Image > Apply Image), and sharpen the layer by selecting Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen:

We’re going to use the blur tool to partially blur the area next to our render:

We’ve blurred the area to the right and left of the metal gear solid render:

Here’s an animation to illustrate what we’ve blurred:

We’re going to fix some sections that are a little out of flow, like the area inside the circle shown here:

To do this, simply create a new layer, and brush with a dark color. Optionally, you can use the clone stamp tool:

Create another Gradient map (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map). The black to white gradient should be set already:

This will desaturate the signature:

Now apply the image on a new layer ( Image > Apply Image), and select the smudge tool.

When you use the smudge tool, make sure you do it into the right direction following the flow of the signature:

Create a new layer, and select a large soft brush.

Brush with a white color at the top, where the lighting makes sense:

Add some finnishing touches (For example, use the sharpen tool or the burn tool to add some more depths), and this brings us to our final result:

I hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial. Premium Members can download the PSD file here.