Harry Potter has become a huge phenomenon with an ever larger fanbase. This will teach you how to easily create your own Harry Potter signature.

Lets begin by opening the maple leaf brush and brush a little in white. You can play with opacity of the brush to add some more depth. Now use the smudge tool with the following settings:

Go ahead and smudge the leaves then sharpen the layer.

Drag in the render you want to use and smudge it as well as you did with the leaves before, but dont use the leaf brush this time. Instead, use a soft brush with an opacity of 50%.

Make a new layer. Then select the brush tool and one of the hard brushes (100% hardness) and click here and there.

Then smudge that layer with the same settings as before, but use one of the hard brushes this time. Sharpen the image.

Now you gotta make those famous boxes that shall be around the render. You may want to render in your render, so you can see where you have to make the boxes. Pick the line tool ( next to the pen tool ), and draw some lines on the edge of render. Set the layer to color dodge.

Make a new layer. Pick the brush tool once again and use a soft brush with size 200 px. Then click like 3 places on the layer and set the layer to soft light or overlay, whatever you like. It should make the sig darker and give it more contrast.

Make a new layer and use a soft brush to click 3-4 places in the signature (use a red color). Then select the smudge tool and smudge the brushing you made before with a soft brush. Set the blend mode to color dodge and adjust the opacity to your preferance.

Make a new layer and cloud it (Filter-Render-Clouds) with default colors. Now go to Filter- Pixelate -Mezzotint and use coarse dots.

Use the eraser tool to erase some parts of the layer.

Play around with the blend mode and opacity to your liking.

Make a new layer. Now select a 1px soft brush and select a color in the signature with the eye-dropper, then brush a few dots here and there on the sig.

Drag in your render and lightly smudge it with a soft brush. Set the color layer to dodge.

Get in a c4d render and play with blend mode and opacity (linear- and color dodge). I duplicated my c4d layer once and sat the top layer to color dodge and the other to color dodge, and reduced opacity to 50% on both layers.

By using the pen tool or the select tool, make some lines like I did. Now use the eraser tool to erase some parts of it and make it fade.

Now ad some text, I wrote something like potter. Use soft light as the blend mode.

Drag in your render and use the eraser tool and a soft brush to erase a bit of the edge of the render. It should give better blending. I also made some color balance layers to make my sig more blue.

Make a new layer. Apply the sig to that layer (Image — Apply image).

Make a hue/saturation and brightness/contrast layer to reduce the light. Then set the opacity of the layer to 25%.

Duplicate the layer you just worked with and set the color layers above what they were.

Set the opacity to 100%. Then use the eraser tool and a soft brush (100 px) and brush the edges of the layer so it gives a fade effect.

Sharpen the layer.

Take in two more c4d renders and set the opacity to 50% and the blend mode to color dodge. I placed a render in each side.

While holding CTRL, click on the render layer (the one below the applied image). That should select the render. Then make some color layers to contrast layers to give better blending. You can also drag in some more c4d renders.

Make a new layer and apply the image unto that. Use the rectangular select/marquee tool to select a part of the sig. Then use the move tool to move the selection around. Do that a couple of times to make the sig look more messy.

Now add whatever text you want and your done. Enjoy your new Harry Potter sig!

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