TUTORIAL: Gryffindor Signature

Images:
Lion Pic

Fonts:
Optimus Princeps Semi-Bold

For my first tutorial, I'll show you how to create a simple Gryffindor-themed signature. As it's the first tutorial, it's very simple, and no blending is involved.

1. Open the lion pic to your graphics program. Create a new canvas at size 448x198.

2. Resize the picture of the lion to your liking, so that it will fit comfortably into the new canvas. Copy and paste the lion picture as a new layer into the canvas.

3. Duplicate the layer (Layers >> Duplicate)

4. Desaturate the duplicated layer. (Colors >> Adjust >> Hue/Saturation/Lightness >> Set the Saturation to -100)

5. Change the opacity of the desaturated layer to 30 (Layers >> Properties >> Opacity)

6. Create a new layer (Layers >> New Raster Layer). Flood fill the layer with a dark red colour (#400000). Change the layer blend mode to Soft Light (Layers >> Properties >> Blend Mode >> Soft Light). Then, change the layer opacity to 70.

7. Now, to add the text. Create a new Vector Layer (Layers >> New Vector Layer), and click the add text tool.

8. For 'Gryffindor', I used the font Optimus Princeps Semi-Bold, size 14, colour #FFFFC0, with a kerning of 500.

9. Duplicate the text layer, and convert it to a raster layer (Layers >> Convert to Raster). To add the outer glow to the letters, we need to blur the text. Do this by going to Image >> Blur >> Gaussian Blur. Set the Radius to 3.00 and click OK.

10. Change the Layer Blend mode of the first text layer to Luminance.

11. Add a new raster layer, and flood fill with a navy blue (#000040).

12. Set the layer blend mode to Exclusion, then the opacity to 20.

13. Finally, to finish the graphic, add a border (Image >> Add borders). I used colour #0C0A1C.

i tried and this is the best i got

This tutorial is now retired.