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Coldrival — Soul Calibur Smudge Tutorial
Published: 2008-07-24 03:23:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 7133; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 235
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My first tutorial - go easy.You can find more great tutorials and other resources, as well as a friendly community at Project Photoshop [link]
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I've meant to tell you how awesome this tutorial is. I've used it several times, and it has turned out GREAT each time. It's very helpful, and the sig result you got looks very good too.
Thank you so much!!
xx
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my results are [link]
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Very good tutorial...i've been using this tutorial ever since i started sig making which was a long time ago, just never really left a comment or anything. This was my inspiration.
Thank you :]
I don't know why this doesn't have many favs because i think it's the best tutorial on here 
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Can I have permission to post this tutorial in hidden-designers.com ? with your name and a link back to your DA profile?
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Of course. 
It'd be great if you could provide a link for me when you're done. I love to see where abouts on hidden-designers.com you put it.
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wow! thank you for this! it took me a long time to know that^^
i really appreciate it
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Hi there Lyrad-13. I'll break it down in easy steps for you to follow.
1) Make a new layer on the very top of your document.
2) Grab the rectangle marquee tool, and make a selection all the way across your image, and a height that you'd like.
3) Click on your colour pallete, and change the forground colour to white.
4) Grab the gradient tool, and look up in the upper left hand corner of the PS window. You'll see a small box with two colours, one (white - which you selected) fading to the other (background colour).
5) See it? Click on this box and it'll open a dialogue window. In the middle of this box, you'll see a selection of squares with different colour gradients. Select the one that has a white, fading into nothing (grey and white squares).
6) Still with the gradient tool selected, and the area that you selected in step 2, drag the gradient into the position you want.
7) Set the blending mode to overlay.
If you want to know how I did the small diagonal lines, you'll need to apply a clipping mask (Ctrl+Alt+G).
The lines are called scanlines ([link] ), and they are applied by creating a new layer on top of the one previously created, and selecting the entire canvas with the rectangle marquee tool. Right click this new selection, and click Fill...
Apply your new scanlines, and press Ctrl+Alt+G to apply the clipping mask. Play about with the blending modes of this layer to see what looks best.
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how did you make the background of your text? i want to know please
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Edit, I knew I made a tutorial on how to create scanlines. You can find it here. [link]
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I'm glad you found the tut useful, and the end result looks fantastic. Nice choice of render, and great smudging! Well done!
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Thnx m8!
I love your Tutorial!
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