the outcome of this radiohead signature tutorial:

This is the stock we are going to use for the tag, feel free to use this for your tag:

Here’s another one you can use:

We’re going to add some stock on top. You can use the liquify tool to change this around, or the burn tool to change the colors a little. Make sure there’s some lighting right around our main character, and the area around itis a little more darkened.

Set this layers blending mode to Lighten, if you have some lighting on the stock thats close to your character, you should get an outcome similar to this:

Create a new layer, and apply the image (Image > Apply Image). We’re going to use some splatter brushes to erase the background., and move it around a little. This is what’s left of our bg shown on a white background:

This is the layer shown on the background. We’re going to change the blending mode to Lighten afterwards:

blending mode on lighten:

Create a new layer, and select Image > Apply Image. We’re going to add some coloring. Press CTRL + U to bring up the Hue/Saturation window, and play around with the settings. First, we’re going to set an orange color. Make sure you have Colorize checked:

The result shown below:

Grab your eraser tool again, and start erasing sections with a splatter brush or whatever brush you like. Make sure you remove part of the focal, in our case his face. We’re going to leave this uncolored.

Our layer after erasing shown on a black background:

Change this layers blending mode to darken. Our result:

Repeat this step, however pick a different color this time. Remember to remove the section that cover a good looking focal, which in this tag is his face.

Set this layers blending mode to Darken:

Grab a dark bright color (we picked #00064c) and fill a new layer. We’re going to set this layer to Lighten, and reduce its Fill.

On the photoshop layer panel, reduce the layers Fill to 65%:

Our result after reducing the fill and changing the opacity:

Make a new layer, and use the eyedropper tool to select a bright color on your canvas. Brush near your focal to create some lighting, slightly brush around him to create extra flow:

Set this layers blending mode to overlay:

We’re going to add some adjustment layers. We’re going to add a Color Balance layer, a Channel Mixer and a Selective color layer. However, rather than showing every setting used in these adjustment layers, I’ve uploaded a PSD file with these layers so you can take a look at them yourself. More importantly though, try creating your own and experimenting with colors.

In your Color balance layer, select Shadows, change settings, select Midtones, repeat. Do the same for Highlights.

You can download the psd file of these adjustment layers Here. Remember to play around with its settings.

Our result after using Color balance:

Our result after applying the Channel mixer layer:

Result after applying the selective color layer:

Apply the image on a new layer (Image > Apply Image). We’re going to blur the areas that look too sharp and strong. You can use the blur tool for this to blur select areas and to keep the focal point (his face) sharpened.

Here’s an animation to show you what we’ve changed (mainly his chest and arms):

We’re going to use the pen tool to create some nice lines around our focal. Select your pen tool, and pick these settings on the toolbar:

use the pen tool to randomly create some lines around the focal point:

We’re going to stroke this line with a soft 1 pixel brush. Select your brush, and pick the top left brush in your layer panel. Make sure it is set to size 1. This is a soft brush and will produce a good looking result if you check Simulate Pressure. Use the eyedropper tool to pick up a matching bright color.

Go to Paths on your layer pallette, and right click the Work Path. Select Stroke Path:

in the dropdown menu, use the brush and make sure you check Simulate Pressure:

Our result, we’ve set this layer to Lighten:

We’re going to repeat the previous step, however selecting a larger and softer brush this time:

Our result (don’t worry we know it looks like crap)

Change this layers blending mode to Linear Dodge:

Create a new layer, and with a large brush, tap a few times in around your focal with a bright color. Then tap twice with a smaller dark brush, to create some detail in the brushing. Our brushing is shown below:

We’re setting this layers blending mode to Color Dodge.

We’re nearly done, apply the image on a new layer, and select Filter > Sharpen. If it’s too sharp, reduce the fill to about 50%.

The colors on the microphone still look a little off, so we’re going to apply the image on a new layer again. Then, select an area with bright colors and detail, and copy this. Paste this on top, and move it to the side a little:

Change its blending mode to darken, and if you’re satisfied, you’re done! Our final result:

We hope you’ve enjoyed this tutorial, there’s way more to come soon! If you enjoyed this tutorial, please leave a comment or reply to support us!

Result of this signature tutorial:

optional result without gradient map adjustment layer:

1. We start this signature tutorial by creating a new file and fill this with a dark color. Our size was set to 370 by 120 pixels.

2. Find a good dark stock with a few lighter areas on it. We’re going to distort this stock by using the clone stamp tool and a splatter brush. Select the clone stamp tool, grab a splatter brush (check out our resources section for brushes) and hold ALT on your keyboard. Then select a region with some dark texture in it. Then tap around your canvas with your brush. Our result:

Select a splatter brush:

Press and hold alt to create a destination point, and tap around your tag:

3. In the next few steps we will be making some lighting on our tag. Grab a large round soft brush, and tap once near the button with a white color.

4. Set this layers blending mode to overlay:

5. Repeat these few steps with a lighter color to create some more lighting. Tap around with your brush, we selected a color from the render we are going to use later. If you’ve found a stock already, use your eyedropper tool to select a color:

6. Change its blending mode to either screen or overlay, we picked screen:

7. Brush some more with the same color until you’ve created some good looking lighting:

8. Add text to your canvas, the font we used for this tag is Kingthings SpikeMT. Add some text, ours made no sense, but add whatever you feel fits the tag with a bright matching color:

9. Use the same bright color we used for the text to tap softly with a smaller brush in the center of the lighting we made:

10. Find some good stock, and paste it on the canvas (duplicate the stock and keep a backup at all times, we will use it later). Remove the right side of this stock where we have the most texture in the background:

11. Change this stocks blending mode to lighten:

Our result:

12. Our render is too blended in, so we duplicated our render, set its blending mode to normal, and erased all parts but around the shoulder:

This is the render shown on a white background to show you what we’ve erased:

our result (we kept the renders blending mode on normal)

13. Go back to the backup render we kept (step 10) and duplicate it. Move it to the top of your layer panel. Set its blending mode to lighten:

moving the layer panel:

the result afterwards:

14. Add an effect render that matches the color of your render, and remove some sections of it. Make sure if follors the flow of your tag. Set its blending mode to screen afterwards.

Our render added:

The signature shown with Its blending mode set to screen

15. We’re going to add a gradient map adjustment layer with some very bright colors, and we’re going to reduce this layers opacity to ~ 80% to 85%. Our gradient map (colors used were black #070003, pink #FC006C, and yellow #F6FC02):

Our layer map (we set it to reverse:)

result after putting the opacity down somewhat:

16. We’re going to use the original colors of the render, duplicate the backup of the render we kept and move it on top of the layer panel:

The duplciated stock from step 10:

Erase the stock apart from the section around the head:

17. Set the copied stocks blending mode to lighten to blend it in slightly:

18. We’re going to make another gradient map, this time a black to white gradient map. We’re going to change the blending mode to Luminosity, and reduce the opacity somewhat, we used 44%:

After changing the blending mode to Luminosity and reducing the opacity to 44% :

19. We’re going to add some more detail by creating a clipping mask on splatter brushing. Before we add the brushing, hide the text, and apply the image on a new layer (Image > Apply Image).

20. On a new layer, add some brushing with a splatter brush where your tag needs some more texture:

21. Move the applied image layer up over the brushing layer, and go to Layer > Create Vector Mask, or press ALT + CTRL + G. Move the layer up a bit to cover some of the brushing.

22. Duplicate that clipping mask, and move it down a bit to cover the other part of the brushing, and set its blending mode to lighten:

23. Make a new layer, and select Image > Apply image. We’re going to sharpen our tag, go to Filter > Sharpen, if it’s too sharp you can reduce the opacity. We’ve kept it on a 100% though:

There are two more things we can do, the right side still looks a little dark.

24. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness Contrast Layer…, and put the contrast down a little. We set it down to -15 for our final result:

25. The second optional result we can make is creating a version without the adjustment layer. Hide the adjustment layers, the brushing and the clipping masks:

26. apply this result on a new layer (Image > Apply Image):

27. Unhide the splatter layer we’ve made:

28. Drag the applied image above the splatter layer, and create a clipping mask, move this layer up a bit:

29. Duplicate this layer, and move the render sidewards and down a little:

30. Apply the image on a new layer, and select Filter > Sharpen for our final optional result:

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!

This is the signature we’ve made:

1. Right, open up a new file.

as you can see, we picked 340 by 130. Find a good wallpaper, and place it in your file. Resize it to fit your canvas:

2. Now on the following layers, add your renders and remove parts you dont like, and try creating some sort of focal point in your signatures. Toy around with the layer settings to create nice coloring and textures on your signature. The following layers and layer settings were used:

Layer Blending mode: Lighten 100% opacity:

Layer Blending mode: LinearDodge 100% opacity:

Layer Blending mode: ColorDodge 100% opacity:

Layer Blending mode: LinearDodge 100% opacity:

Our result at this point:

3. We’re going to create some lighting at our focal point. On a new layer, use your eyedrop tool to pick a light color from our render. With a soft brush, add some brushing and set the layer to Screen at 100% opacity. Reduce the opacity if you feel like it’s too bright in your canvas:

result:

4. To add more depth into this signature, we’re going to add dark brushing at the edges. Add some black brushing at the sides on a new layer, and reduce the opacity if needed. We kept the opacity at 100% though:

5. We’re going to add an adjustment layer (Layer > New adjustment layer > Color Balance). I picked these settings, but it’s important that you make it look good, these settings might not work in your signature if you have a different background, used different renders or played aroudn with the brushing. Toy around with the settings, and make sure you have preview checked in the checkbox. Turn it on and off to see its effect.

before we added our color balance:

after we added our color balance:

6. Now we’re going to add some more textures into the signature. You can either pick your Round Marquee Tool like we did, or you can pick up the pen tool to make custom shapes. You can find great pen tool tutorials here. We made some white circles into our signature, changed the size and location of the circles and placed them in a seemingly interesing place near our focal point. Set this layer to linear dodge to make it stand out from the background. This is how we did it:

some more circles placed into the signature:

some more circles placed into the signature:

7. At this point we felt that the signature was a bit too dark, so on a new layer we picked a “not too darkish” color from our canvas, and brushed lightly. Set this layer style to Screen, and reduce its opacity to around 60%. Erase any bits that you don’t need or that make it look bad.

the result after this brushing:

8. Make a new layer, and go to Image > Apply Image… We’re going to flip this horizontally. Go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal… This should be your result:

9. The signature looks a bit boring now, so we’re going to add a subtle Cinema4D render. You can find these and much more renders on our Resources page. Set this layer to LinearDodge with 100% opacity:

our result with the cinema4d render applied:

10. We’re going to do some more smudging. Make a new layer, and Apply your image (Image > Apply Image…). Try not to overdo this step, but just smudge lightly

11. We’re going to add some more light brushing to our canvas, experiment with the layer settings until it looks nice. We set our layer to Screen on 25% opacity. it gives the signature a lighter feel. If it doesn’t make it light enough, pick a lighter collor and do it over.

our result after adding light brushing:

12. We’re going to add an adjustment layer. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Photo Filter… and pick these settings (play around with the settings if you have a different canvas)

Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance… and toy around.

Result after adding adjustment layers:

13. Make a selection somewhere in your canvas, pick a detailed spot with difference in lighting, this will probably look best. Make a new layer, and while you have a section selected go to Image > Apply Image… Move this section around, and perhaps even turn it around. You can press CTRL + T or go to Edit > Free Transform… turn it around or change its angle until you are satisfied. We’re going to use this section to place our text, so if you like vertical aligned text, change its angle. Put it in a good place. In our canvas, the text on the shirt of the left guy looks kind of out of place, so this would be a good spot to put the selection.

Our result after applying the selection:

14. Place in your text on top of the square box. The text is obviously optional, but we used the methods explained in the following steps to color our text and have it match with the signature:

15. Add an cinema4d render on top, and erase parts that you do not need. Set the blending mode to LinearDodge on 100% opcaity:

our result after the cinema4d render was applied:

16. Add a couple of adjustment layers by going to Layer > Adjustment Layer and select the following:

Gradient map on luminosity with 75% opacity

Color Balance, layer mode set to normal but opacity reduced to 60%

our signature is finnished! result:

Original signature made by TrueFantom. Thanks a lot to The Dragon for the sharing the tutorial with SignatureStop!

1. ok lets get started. Create a new document, and make it whatever size you like. For this tutorial, the size used was 400 pixels by 145 pixels.

2. Paste your stock on your canvas, and duplicate these a few times (Layer > Duplicate Layer…). Resize these a bit to fill your background. Get your smudge tool, and smudge the background a bit. Use your liquify tool on the background as well to get the desired effect:

3. Place your stock somewhere nice where you want your focal point to be, and smudge it into the background a bit.

4. Next we’re going to use our brush tool to create a focal point. With a black brush, brush around the edges to create a focal point. Go to Filter > Brush Strokes > Crosshatch…, and play around with the settings.

5. Add your render in on top again, and burn it a bit with your burn tool.

6. The next step will change depending on the settings you use. We’re going to use the displace filter. Go to Filter > Distort > Displace, and choose a bright PSD file. It will displace the PSD into our signature (if you need help with this step, please check this Displace Tutorial). If needed, paste your stock on top again, and remove parts of it that you dont like. Try creating some sort of “smashing” effect in his arm:

7. Use your Burn Tool to darken down your tag, this will add depth into your signature.

8. Add in a good looking Cinema4D effect (you can find great Cinema4D renders at our Resources page), and use Filter > Distort > Ripple > -200 to fade this render into the background. Set its blending mode to Linear Dodge on 50% to 60% opacity.

9. Duplicate the Cinema4D effect, and flip it horizontally (Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal). Place this over his other arm.

10. We’re going to remove some bad looking lines on his arm that interfere with our lighting. Grab a soft black brush, and brush over these lines. Change the opacity down a bit.

11. Make a new layer, and set the blending mode to Soft Light. We’re going to softly brush his arm to add lighting. This will create the blast effect on his arm, so experiment with the brushing.

12. adding some more lighting, however set the blending mode to overlay on 80% opacity:

13. We’re adding some Pale green soft brushing. Set this layer to lighten on 50% to 65% opacity.

14. Make a new layer, and go to Image > Apply Image…, and with a soft black brush (around 10 to 20 pixels in size) darken any parts of the render that stand out too much. You can also use the burn tool. On our render, we have some sort of shadow on the right side of his body and knuckles that do not look good, so we brush those parts.

15. Now we’re going to add adjustment layers. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Photoflipter… , select a green color and set it to 25%.

16. Make a gradient map, set it to luminosity on 50% opacity:

17. Make another gradient map, and set it to Hue on 100% opacity:

18. Add in your text, and use your sharpen tool on your render to add depth. Afterwards, go to Filter > Other > High Pass > 10.0, and set this layer to Softlight or Overlay on 25% to 55%.

19. Add a border, and you’re finnished!

result high quality:

thanks again to dragon for writing the original tutorial! great work!

This tutorial can be a bit advanced, we will not be teaching you how to make adjustment layers and what settings to use, it’s best to experiment with these settings yourself since no stock gives the same outcome as the other. We will show you each layer made and the technique used to make the layer, however you should be aware of what tools you have and be able to apply them yourself. Let’s get going

1. Grab your stock or render, and paste them on your canvas.

2. Add an adjustment layer. Make a Curves layer to make the colors a bit more interesting:

3. Get your smudge tool, and smudge with your prefered settings. Give it a bit of flow:

4. Displace it with a good PSD (Filter > Distort > Displace) , erase whatever looks bad, and smudge some more.

5. We’re going to flip it horizontally. Make a new layer, apply the image (Image > Apply Image…) and Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal. Erase parts of it to make the stock a bit more interested and smudge some more.

6. Continue flipping it horizontally, smudging and erasing for a few layers until you get what you like:

7. Add in a gradient map to make the colors look good (Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map…)

8. Flip it again (Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontally…)

9. Displace the image with another PSD and smudge it some more (Filter > Distort > Displace…).

10. Apply the iamge, Add in a clipping mask (Layer > Add Clipping Mask, or ALT + CTRL + G), and move the layer around.

11. Displace the image again, and smudge it (Filter > Distort > Displace…)

12. Copy the original stock back in, and erase/smudge the background until it blends in and looks good:

13. Add a few adjustment layers. Layer > New Adjustment Layer, and pick some curves and gradient maps:

14. Make some more clipping masks (Layer > Add Clipping Mask, or ALT + CTRL + G), and move the layers around:

15. Apply the image again, flip it horizontally (Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontally…), erase some parts, and smudge some more.

16. Sharpen your focal either with the sharpening tool, or go to Filter > Sharpen

17. Add another clipping mask (Layer > Add Clipping Mask, or ALT + CTRL + G).

18. Make a new layer, set the blending mode to screen, and brush with a bright color near your focal. Reduce the opacity if its too bright, or pick a brighter color if it’s too dull.

19. Apply the image on a new layer (Image > Apply Image), move it around, erase some of it and smudge some more until you see what you like.

20. Darken your signature a bit by either brushing with a dark color and reducing the opacity, or use your burn tool.

21. Smudge the signature some more.

22. Flip the signature horizontally after applying the image on a new layer.

23. Smudge some parts that still don’t look good some more (we smudged the left side):

24. Make a new layer, set it to screen, and add some soft brushing over your focal point:

25. Apply the image, move it around, erase and smudge to decorate the background some more.

26. Aaaand some more smudging:

27. Flip the signature one more time depending on where your focal is. In this case, the flow looked better when it went somewhat to the right. Our result:

and you’re done! This tutorial was used to show you the layers made and changed, however this will not teach you to do the same thing. Please experiment with these techniques and try creating your own style. Thanks again to CaptainNapkins!

1. Right, get your wallpaper, and put it in your file. Resize if you need to. My file is 300 pixels by 100 pixels.

2. Grab your brush tool, and make a new layer. Make sure you get a hard round brush, about 30 in size. brush around the left and right of your focal point, which in this case is Scarlett Johansson.

3. We’re going to smudge the white brushing. Grab your brush, and go to the brush window. I picked a chalk brush with standard settings apart from scattering. I took these scattering settings:

Start smudging the edges, Try to have it blend into the background.

4. Now we’re going to add a white bar around our render, and make it look like its some sort of cloud going right behind here. We do this by picking a hard brush, my size was around 20 pixels, and brushing from our white area to the sides of our scarlett johansson model.

5. We have to smudge this again, and try to make it look like its fading behind our model. You can do this by making the parts closest to our render a bit darker. Smudge until you are satisfied, then grab your eraser and remove parts that are on top of our render.

6. Under our white brushing, I copied the wallpaper that we started with. I set this layer to screen with 30% Opacity.

7. We’re going to remove sides of our white area. Grab your eraser, and remove the edges. Dont worry if it looks bad, in the next step we will fix it with some more smudging!

8. Grab your smudge tool, and smudge the edges a bit. This is what I ended up with:

9. Grab your eraser, and go back to the wallpaper that we set to screen on 30% opacity. You can see her white ribbon going trough her face, and it looks a bit out of place. I decided to remove the ribbon with the eraser, but kept most of the other stuff there. This was my result:

10. We’re going to add adjustment layers to color the background and our model. After adding the adjustment layers, we will remove parts of it to compliment the wallpaper. Add these 2 adjustment layers:

Channel Mixer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Channel Mixer…):

My result after applying this adjustment Layer:

Add another Channel Mixer layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Channel Mixer…)

Result after adding that layer:

11. Now on the top adjustment layer, click on the channel mixer section, and brush with a black color where you want to remove the adjustment layer. As you can see, I removed the render from the adjustment layer in the first Channel Mixer, and i removed the Background in the second Adjustment Layer:

My result after doing this:

12. Now we’re going to fix bad looking spots in our smudging. If you look at my signature so far you can see the down right corner does not look too good, and you can fix this by either smudging some more like I did, or adding a dark color on top on a new layer and reducing the opacity. I smudged the down right corner and a little on the left:

13. We’re nearly done, add a border to your signature. I like these 2 pixel borders on top and bottom:

14. We’re going to add more detail to our image. I picked the pen tool, and made an outline of the right side of our models face with the pen tool. I then went to Paths and Right Click > Stroke Path, set it to 1 pixel with Black:

Duplicate the lines a move them a bit to the right:

15. We’re going to sharpen our image a bit. Make a new layer, and go to Image > Apply Image… you can now use the sharpen filter (Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen…) or use the sharpen tool.

16. Try adding detail, add another line if you are not satisfied like I was or perhaps smudge here and there.

17. I thought that my signature was a bit too dull, so once again I applied my image (new layer, Image > Apply Image) and set this to soft light on a lower opacity. I picked 26% opacity.

18. Pick a color from your render using your eyedrop tool (I used a color from her hair) and on a new layer, brush it over your model. Set this layer to overlay and reduce the opacity a bit. Mine was reduced to 23%

my result after brushing:

19. At this point I still wasn’t satisfied with the result, so I made another layer and applied the image (Image > Apply Image…) and sharpened the background and a part of her face to add more texture.

20. Just to experiment, I flipped the signature horizontally by going to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontall… and I think it looked pretty good.

21. Add text (give text some more attention than I did though!) and as soon as you are satisfied, you’re done!

Feel free to post suggestions, questions or results in the comments!

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Please note that the colors in some images may look poor, this is because the images are saved in GIF files to reduce file size. The results at the end and up here are saved in full quality.

1. open up a new file with any size you like, I picked 350 by 120. Find a good looking render. If you like you can download one from our resources page, we have plenty of great looking c4d renders available gathered from around the web. Place your render in your file and decrease/increase its size until you’re satisfied with the way it looks.

2. Make a new layer. Pick your brush, use your eyedropper tool to pick a blue color from anywhere at your render. I picked a blue color. Tap once or twice where you want the focal point of your signature to be with a large size. My brush size was 65 pixels.

3. Repeat this step with a white brush, however decrease the brush size to about 35 pixels.

4. Now make a new layer, and go to Image > Apply image. Hide the layer for a second, and with a splatter brush, make some splatters in the middle of your file.

5. Select your applied image layer, and hit CTRL + ALT + G (Or go to Layer > Create Clipping Mask…). Move the layer around a bit, and you’ll see your applied image underneath.

6. Apply image, and go to Filter > Brush Strokes > Crosshatch.. and select the settings shown in the picture. pick larger splatter brushes, and create a clipping mask. Move the layer undearneath around till you like what you see. You can find plenty of free brushes at our resources section.

7. Make a new layer, and pick a black brush. We’re going to darken the corners and give the signature a bit of flow. Brush around the corners of your signature. Don’t worry yet if you’ve made it too dark, we will light it up a bit in the next step.

8. Make a new layer, set it to Soft Light, and with a white brush this time, tap around the darkened edges to smooth it out a bit.

9. We’re going to add a channel mix. Go to Layer > New Adjustement Layer > Channel Mixer… Basicly at this point you have to toy around with the settings to get the color you like. If you want to highlight the red tones a bit, select Red from the dropdown menu. If you want to compliment the blue colors, select blue from the dropdown menu and toy around with its settings. It all depends on the render you picked and the color you want it to be.

10. Make a new layer, and go to image > apply image. Move it around to the left or right direction, depending on where you have your lighting. I moved it to the right because I thought it looked best.

11. Add your text and perhaps an outer strike to outline your signature. My text was fairly simple, I picked Georgia in a light blue color and decreased the opacity to about 80%. Changed its angle a bit to make it match the side of the applied layer, and there you have it.

Feel free to post suggestions, questions or results in the comments!