IN this tutorial, you will learn how to make renders like this:

Blend into Sigs like This: Except in this tutorial, i deleted my render layer so i could teach you how i did it ;)
K. Lets get started.

1. Open up any sig you like without a render. I chose the one above.

2. On your sig, On every layer do Image>Adjustments>DeSaturate.

3. Now on your render document, Do Image>Adjustments>Desaturate.

4. Now grab the Lasso Tool And go around your image like So:

5. Now hit Ctrl+ALt+D So it pops up w/ a Feather Selection. Put the Feather Radius on about 15. note: if your sig is alot bigger then mine, you might want to Up the settings a little bit to maybe like 25ish.

6. Now Hit Ctrl+C so it copys.

7. Now paste it on your sig document, make sure you click the highest layer then hit Ctrl+V.

8. Since you did the Feather Effect, your gonna be able to see thru the render a little bit.. Hit Ctrl+J To Duplicate the Render Layer on your sig, Then hit Ctrl+E to merge both render layers. Now it should be real ovious what you need to erase. It should look dissolved.

9. Grab a Soft Eraser, and put it on about 15 (bigger render=bigger eraser size)
And erase around the image. A lot of ppl ask, How do you erase around your images? no, Its not because of your steady hand or not, its because of time. If you want your sig to look good, erase everything far away from the render, then when you need to erase CLosely around the render, Do it Click by Click. <--IMportant if you want render to look good ;)

10. Now take about another Soft Eraser, but put the size to about 35. And put the opacity to about 20%. Now erase around the corners of the render, (IF THIS IS A CHARACTER, OR PERSON, DO NOT ERASE AROUND THE HEAD.) Erase around the Legs, Sides/ARms . This way it looks blended in better.

11. Now your done, But your sig is colorless.. Lets get some color on it eh?

12. On my sig, it was multicolored.. So do w/e you did before to make it multi colored again, and use the same settings, which would either be CTrl+U or Image>Adjustments>Selective COlor, Then Image>Adjustments>BRightness/Contrast.
note: Since my sig was brushed, it was the whole BG, i just changed brush color to Red, then did image>adjustments>Selective color to make it a whitish/Pink..Now i cant get it back, so HOPEFULLY you didnt do what i did ;). If you did, your probably gonna be stuck with just a 1 colored sig. :huh: Yikes .

13. On your Background layer, you should use Ctrl+U, but on the Render layer, you should use IMAGE>ADJUSTMENTS>SELECTIVE COLOR. This way the whole render wont look just one color , because most renders, are more then 1.
Make sure you use a color thats really similar to your bg.. which will make it blend in... duh? :blink:

Heres my result:


Post your results/Questions/Comments Here!

Thanks,

-Pink

[copyright to pinkpanther of furiousgfx 2005]

ohh ohh ohh i don't have dasurate on my images wat do i do ?

this is for PS, not Paint or w/e you use.

nice i will try this

here's my stab at it

i know it sux butt...but hey give me a break its my first actual sig