Photoshop Tutorials: Signatures and Banners

Opening up a new document in photoshop is real easy.


• File


• New


• Then choose your settings.
  Name: Whatever you want to call the file if you choose to name it.
  Width: at least 200 Pixels
  Height: at least 200 Pixels
  Resolution: 72

All you have to do is choose your color by clicking on the square boxes on the left where it looks like colors or on the right with the eye dropper. Then click on the paint bucket button on the left. Then go ahead click on your document with your paint bucket.

Make sure you choose the rectangle marquee and then click layers on the left and click create new layer icon.

Drag your marquee across your screen. The example is shown above.

Now its time to add color. Choose any color you want. I'd suggest a color that is on the dark side though. Use paint bucket to add color to that area. As long as the marquee is still highlighted when you add the paint bucket to the square, the color will go inside of the box.

Create a new layer and then go to

• Select


• Modify


• Select and then choose 8px as the option and then click okay.


• Then choose a color. I would choose a color that is on the yellow or bright side. Do not use white though.

Create a new layer and then go to

• Select


• Modify


• Select and then choose 5px as the option and then click okay.


• Then choose a color. I would choose any color you want.

Lets take a look at the very first layer that we added. That is the bottom blue layer in the picture above.

• Go to layer


• layer style


• play around with your settings. What I have here is:
  Style: inner bevel
  Technique: smooth
  Direction: up
  Depth: 100%
  Size: 5px
  Soften: 0px


Now you can see the bottom layer is raised against the background.

Select the yellow layer

• Go to Filter


• Blur


• Gausian blur


• Play around with the settings until you find the right look. Mine is around 1px.

The picture above is what you should have. It does not mean it will be exact.

Make sure you still have the yellow layer selected

• Go to layer


• Layer style


• Bevel and emboss


• Choose the settings:
  Style: inner bevel
  Technique: chisel hard
  Depth: 1000px
  Direction: up
  Size: 5px
  Soften: 0px
  

Its time to make the bottom layer to look like it merges with the yellow layer.

• Go to image


• Layer adjustments


• Hue/satuation and then play around with the setting until you get the right look.

You can merge it down if you want. It does not matter if you merge it down or not. Every time you create one of these, it may not come out the same exact way. I remember the first time I created this. I first created this in photoshop 5.0 LE. It has never ever came out the same exact way that the original one had come out, but it has come pretty darn close like the one above, but not 100%. The example of the originals are actually placed on my main website's forums.