Well its like a full sig tutorial about pixel stretch... i have used photoshop CS only for the doubt...You can find this effect in a lot of sigs... or maybe this tutorial in others sites ^^ but this is officialy for pixel art.. so enjoy ;)

Ok first open a new document.. mine will be of 400x150 pxls With transparent background.
Press D to reset colors..
Go to filter > render > Clouds


Now create a new layer and strart brushing... i will be using grunge brushes, remember to brush with black and white always switching the colors... And this is my result:

If you dont want to make your background... click here to download some grungy bakcgrounds

Now open your render... im going to use this one:
Copy all and paste in your sig... and you will have something like that.. remember to make it more little for fit in the sig:

Now lets blend the image with the background...lets Ctrl+Click in your render layer in your renders pallete....

Now lets go to Select..Feather and choose 10 pix radius... this will depen of the sixe of your render...

Now it will take an a soft selection... now lets go to Image > Add layer Mask > REVEAL SELECTION... and will look like this:


Now if you dont like the result you can check out more blending options for a image here....Or you can choose your brush tool with black...and make shure the layer mask of your render is selected... and strart to brush in the places you want to dissapear the render..

lol... now lets go again
Now lets make the pixel stretch effect... its easy... take your Single marque tool... and choose a place in your render... that you want to stretch...
Dont deselect and press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V and it will be pasted in a new layer

Now go to Edit > Transform > Scale... and press Shift to stretch the pixel correctly...
Now you should have something like this:


Move your pixel stretch layer above your render... and set the blend mode to overlay.. I also change the opacity to 80%


Thats all... i add to the sig some render effects... a contrast/brightness layer, text, border, and other effects... thats all... now you have your pixel stretch sig....
If you want to know a detailed step... just post it and let me know ;)
Final Result:

good tut :D
the blendign mode of the pixel strectch also looks good in soft light, ell.. I accustom to use this way it :lol:

yea xD i like it, its simple :P

i think i'll do that for my next sig, thx kasy!









edit> dry.gif i must be really dumb cus i follow ur directions but it looks totaly different
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edit2: nvm i got it :/

lol u couuldn make it?! lol xD

;) nvm photoshop mode was accidently set onn 'grayscale' xD im so dumb

xDDDDDDD

:lol: yeah im pretty stupid :D

nice tut, ive seen a lot of tuts on this but they make it so complicated, and i am like this :huh: but with yours i am like :hyper: IT WORKS!!!! WOOOOOOO

lol i seen this tut b4, ^^ i like the effect

Dont worry nero ^^

I make it 4 you randomkid,,, i have said it before... obiously this is not my idea... but pixel art deserve a pixel stretch tutorial

yea xD