Stylish Rectangles

This tutorial is a simple Photoshop tutorial for adding stylish rectangles in a sig or other artwork To give a touch up to it. It's very simple and in my opinion it has a great effect sometimes! You should try it, I show you how! Good luck!

Well ... We start with a background that you're going to use for you sig or other piece. I started a new file (350*100) a great sig resolution in my opinion.

Start making your background, with brushes, filters or whatever. I came up with this:

Now we want to add our stylish rectangles to give it a tech, stylish look. Now take you rectangular marquee tool.

Now make a small rectangle with it in a new layer. Make sure the feather is 0px! You can check the feather above. So make a rectangle like this:

Now take the gradient tool.

And make sure your settings are like this:

Now draw your gradient in the selection like this:

Now don't remove the selection and do this: edit - stroke - (1px - center - white ).

You can remove the selection now (Ctrl-D). Without the stroke it sometimes looks even better!!!

You should have something like this now:

Now it's almost finished. We only have to add some blending options.

Set the blend mode to Linear dodge, I have opacity:100% - Fill:20%.

Like this:

Now just play around with the fill and opacity and duplicate the layer a couple of times and place them in front of each other, just don't be scared to mess around. Like this:

Here's an example where I used that effect.But I did it without the stroke!