Soft-fire-grunge Full Sig Tutorial

Create a new document, mine will be 400x150, but you may use whatever size your comfortable with.

Choose your render wisely, try to pick a render that will look best in the center of the piece, the flow of signature are important and in this type of signature its particularly important.

Once you have the stock you wish to use paste it into the new canvas you created before and go to edit > Transform > scale. Move the corner of the render where the tiny box is so that the arrow is on a diagonal slant. Hold Shift+Ctrl+Alt and move your mouse down to resize it until it looks nice and takes up a fair amount of your canvas. Move the stock to the center of your canvas. (If you don't hold Shift+Ctrl+Alt your image will get distorted).

Create a new layer below the stock (Ctrl+Shift+N). Set your foreground to #452113 and make sure your background is black. For this step I used AbstractFaith brushes, but soft grunge and other sparkly brushes will work almost as well.

Beginning to brush lightly around the stock in the dark red you set as your foreground color, hit X to swap foreground and background colors and go around the corners of the brushing you just made. Keep hitting X and touching out the brushed layer until it looks something like this:

The next step is very similar to the last one. Create another new layer, below the stock, but above your last brushing layer and change your foreground to #70311A and whilst keeping your background black, now brush around the render once again in the brownie red color, this time keeping your brushing closer to the render.

Now create another new layer, above the last brushing ;layer and change your foreground color to #AB4A25 leaving your background color as black. Brush around the render once again but make the brushing stick even closer to the render this time. Once you are done if anything looks around touch up the layer that makes it look wrong with the appropriate color by brushing your background and foreground colors until it looks appropriate.

Now create another layer above all your brushing layers. set your foreground color to white and your background color to black. Set the layer to Overlay and brush white to lighten an area and black to darken an area. Keep in mind while your doing this that the flow and depth will be compromised if you don't make the background look like a progression from dark to light coming from outside the render into the center.

Now create a layer above all your other layers and set it to Overlay. Brush black and white again to lighten and darken the signature much like you did in the last step. This time brush black over the stock where appropriate to darken it slightly bringing it closer too your dark theme and color pallet. Once again think about the flow and depth while your brushing.

Repeat the last step again.

Now add a new Color Balance Layer below the stock and use redish tones, these are the settings I used:

Midtones: +22 0 -6
Highlights: +29 0 0
Shadows: +47 0 0

Make sure you experiment until it looks alright.

Now make a new layer again over top of the everything, set the blend mode to Overlay and brush black and white until you clear the picture up a bit.

Now create a new layer on top of everything again, get a nice brush out make sure its sort of foggy style, again the AbstractFaith set is perfect for this, brush over the bottom sort like fog to help blend the stock into the background.

Now go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Pattern and select this pattern:

Set the blend mode to soft Light and decrease the opacity to around 40%.

Flatten the layer and go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen then straight after without doing anything else whatsoever go to Edit > Fade Sharpen and move the bar down until it looks good (mine was around 35%)

Now get the type tool and type your name in your desired font and add some subtext if you think its appropriate, add some tech bars where it looks good and should be able to make something like this:

Now created a new layer, hit Ctrl+A to select all, and go to Edit > Stroke and set the color to white and width to 2. Then go to Edit > Stroke again and set the color to black and the width to 1 and its all done. there are a lot of other things you can do to make the signature look better or different,
IE: Change the colors, different brushing style or brushing, different blending, check out other tutorials for this kind of information and explore your own style of this signature, I hope you guys can take this tutorial, and make the style your own by adding and subtracting steps.