-TUTORIAL- How to create a Alessandro Del Piero signature.

Hi guys, this tutorial it's pretty basic and it will show you how to create a football signature with Adobe Photoshop CS4. We will use some textures found with google images and some created by t-ton, please do post your outcomes from this tutorial. Let's begin:
First let's see the final outcome:

Render and Textures:
(left click to open, right click and "Save As..." to download)
Render:

 

Textures:

Texture 1

Texture 2

Texture 3

Texture 4

Texture 5

Texture 6

Texture 7

After all the texterues and render are downloaded let's start with step 1:

                                                                                                                                          

Step 1: Create a new canvas 430x130 by ether going to File-New in the top menu or by pressing CTRL+N.

                                                                                                                                         

Step 2: Now copy the textures 1,2,3,4,5 in this exact order and duplicate texture 2 one time by right clicking the texture 2 layer, selecting "Duplicate layer..." and clicking ok. Now chance the fill and opacity off layers to this:

Texture/Layer 1: Mode-Normal, Opacity-100%, Fill-100%

Texture/Layer 2: Mode-Multiply, Opacity-100%, Fill-100%

Texture/Layer 2 copy: Mode-Overlay, Opacity-20%, Fill-100%

Texture/Layer 3: Mode-Color Dodge, Opacity-80%, Fill-50%

Texture/Layer 4: Mode-Screen, Opacity-41%, Fill-100%

Texture/Layer 5: Mode-Screen, Opacity-44%, Fill-100%

The outcome and the layers order should look like this:

Note: To copy the textures simply open them, use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to make a full selection hit CTRL+C to copy, go to the signature canvas and hit CTRL+V to paste.

 

                                                                                                                                         

Step 3: Create a new layer and by using the Horizontal Type Tool make a "Del Piero" text and postion it at the bottom of the canvas. The font used is "28 Days Later" and you can find it in the Resources-Fonts section. Now right click the layer and select "Blending options...". Check the box for "Drop Shadow" and "Stroke". For the "Drop Shadow" use Blend Mode as Multiplay with 100% opacity, Angle 0, Distance and Spread 2 and Size 3. For Stroke make the size 1 and the color black, leave other options as default. Now select "Blending options:Custom" right over the "Drop Shadow" and turn the Fill opacity to 50%. The outcome should look like this:

                                                                                                                                          

Step 4: Copy the render on top of all layers and duplicate it 4 times. Now we got 5 render copies.

Render 1/Layer 6: Mode-Normal, Opacity-100%, Fill-0%, apply Stroke effect with size 1 and color black, move it just a little to the right.

Render 1/Layer 6 copy: Mode-Normal, Opacity-100%, Fill-0%, apply Stroke effect with size 1 and color white, move it just a little to the left.

Render 1/Layer 6 copy 2: Mode-Normal, Opacity-100%, Fill-100%, apply "Outer Glow" effect with size 29 and color white.

Render 1/Layer 6 copy 3: Mode-Overlay, Opacity-50%, Fill-50%

Render 1/Layer 6 copy 4: Mode-Screen, Opacity-50%, Fill-50%

The outcome should look like this:

  

                                                                                                                                         

Step 5: Open textures 6 and 7 on top of all the layers in this order(first 6 then 7). Now duplicate texture 7 and apply this values to layers.

Texture 6/Layer 7: Mode-Color Dodge, Opacity-100%, Fill-20%

Texture 7/Layer 8: Mode-Liner Burn, Opacity-20%, Fill-20%

Texture 7/Layer 8 copy: Mode-Soft Light, Opacity-100%, Fill-100%

The outcome should look like this:

  

                                                                                                                                          

Step 6: Now for the border follow this exact steps: Make a new layer(layer 9) and fill it with black using the Paint Bucket Tool, now go to the top menu to Select-All or press CTRL+A to make a layer selection, again go to the top menu and chose Select-Modify-Border with Width 3. Hit Ctrl+Shift+i to inverse the selection or Select-Inverse on the top menu and hit DEL on your keyboard. Apply to layer a "Drop Shadow" effect with Spread 20 and Size 10, leave every thing else as default.

This is outcome:  

  

                                                                                                                                          

Step 7: This is the final step, click on the little half white/half black circle in the lower right corner and apply a Photo Filter with Density of 25% and Color: feff9f(bright yellow). Leave the layer mode, opacity and fill as default. Now repeat this step only this time chose "Curves" and change the output to 84 and the input to 51, again leave every thing else as default.

The final outcome should look like this:

Congratulations. You're done!

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Again, please post your outcomes.