[Must see] Smudge Tutorial. 10-30-2013, 12:21 PM
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Head over to planetrenders.net or any site that supplies HQ renders and find a render of your liking, it should be colourful
and have some action/flow going on.
Make a new Photoshop of your size, I'm using 500x160px. Make a black layer and paste your render, getting rid of any white
or black bits around the edge. Place the render using Rule of Thirds and an apropiate size.
![[Image: 53GgM.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GgM.jpg)
The render may be sharp at the edges where you've got rid of the black bits but we can sort that later.
Duplicate the render 4 times. Put the bottom two layers to Linear Dodge (Add) and second and third top to Colour Dodge.
Set your smudge brush to the chalk number 60.
![[Image: 53Gkx.png]](http://puu.sh/53Gkx.png)
And these properties; Shape Dynamics: Size, Angle & Roundness Jitter 100%.
Scattering: Scatter 360% (Both Axes), Count: 3, Count Jitter: 100%.
Save as a preset and make change the Scatter to 105% then save as a different preset.
Start to smudge the bottom Linear Dodge with the first brush you made then the
second Colour Dodge.
After smudging bottom Colour Dodge and Linear Dodge (Add).
![[Image: 53GtY.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GtY.jpg)
Now smudge the top Colour Dodge and Linear Dodge (Add) with the second brush
you made.
After smudging top Colour Dodge and Linear Dodge (Add)
![[Image: 53GtY.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GtY.jpg)
Now make a new layer and we're going to add a gradient. Where the light is coming
from on the render is where the white of your gradient goes. Once happy with
your gradient set it to soft light.
![[Image: 53GA3.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GA3.jpg)
Now make a new layer and fill black, set the opacity to zero and with a soft
brush, brush over where you want the render to be enhanced.
![[Image: 53GDH.png]](http://puu.sh/53GDH.png)
Set to Soft Light & 51% opacity.
![[Image: 53GFO.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GFO.jpg)
Now add a photo filter of Sepia at 70% and set to 46% opacity.
![[Image: 53GHl.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GHl.jpg)
Add a gradient map of b&w set to luminosity
Add another gradient map of purple to orange set to soft light & 55% opacity
Add another gradient map of blue to red to yellow set to 10% opacity
If needed, make a new layer and fill white, set to overlay and 27% opacity to brighten up the tag
![[Image: 53GM8.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GM8.jpg)
To enhance the render, duplicate the top one with no smudges twice.
Top render put to soft light
Second render add motion blur of 15 set to soft light and 52% opacity
Third render add gaussian blur of .3 and set to 59% opacity
![[Image: 53GS9.png]](http://puu.sh/53GS9.png)
You can blur the edges of the top render to smooth the edges.
You can also add text, borders or C4D renders etc.
Thank you for reading my tutorial :wave:
.PSD For educational purpose only.
Tips
and have some action/flow going on.
Make a new Photoshop of your size, I'm using 500x160px. Make a black layer and paste your render, getting rid of any white
or black bits around the edge. Place the render using Rule of Thirds and an apropiate size.
![[Image: 53GgM.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GgM.jpg)
The render may be sharp at the edges where you've got rid of the black bits but we can sort that later.
Duplicate the render 4 times. Put the bottom two layers to Linear Dodge (Add) and second and third top to Colour Dodge.
Set your smudge brush to the chalk number 60.
![[Image: 53Gkx.png]](http://puu.sh/53Gkx.png)
And these properties; Shape Dynamics: Size, Angle & Roundness Jitter 100%.
Scattering: Scatter 360% (Both Axes), Count: 3, Count Jitter: 100%.
Save as a preset and make change the Scatter to 105% then save as a different preset.
Start to smudge the bottom Linear Dodge with the first brush you made then the
second Colour Dodge.
After smudging bottom Colour Dodge and Linear Dodge (Add).
![[Image: 53GtY.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GtY.jpg)
Now smudge the top Colour Dodge and Linear Dodge (Add) with the second brush
you made.
After smudging top Colour Dodge and Linear Dodge (Add)
![[Image: 53GtY.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GtY.jpg)
Now make a new layer and we're going to add a gradient. Where the light is coming
from on the render is where the white of your gradient goes. Once happy with
your gradient set it to soft light.
![[Image: 53GA3.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GA3.jpg)
Now make a new layer and fill black, set the opacity to zero and with a soft
brush, brush over where you want the render to be enhanced.
![[Image: 53GDH.png]](http://puu.sh/53GDH.png)
Set to Soft Light & 51% opacity.
![[Image: 53GFO.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GFO.jpg)
Now add a photo filter of Sepia at 70% and set to 46% opacity.
![[Image: 53GHl.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GHl.jpg)
Add a gradient map of b&w set to luminosity
Add another gradient map of purple to orange set to soft light & 55% opacity
Add another gradient map of blue to red to yellow set to 10% opacity
If needed, make a new layer and fill white, set to overlay and 27% opacity to brighten up the tag
![[Image: 53GM8.jpg]](http://puu.sh/53GM8.jpg)
To enhance the render, duplicate the top one with no smudges twice.
Top render put to soft light
Second render add motion blur of 15 set to soft light and 52% opacity
Third render add gaussian blur of .3 and set to 59% opacity
![[Image: 53GS9.png]](http://puu.sh/53GS9.png)
You can blur the edges of the top render to smooth the edges.
You can also add text, borders or C4D renders etc.
Thank you for reading my tutorial :wave:
.PSD For educational purpose only.
Tips
Spoiler:
This is the order of layers.
![[Image: 53GUL.png]](http://puu.sh/53GUL.png)
![[Image: 53GVE.png]](http://puu.sh/53GVE.png)
![[Image: 53GUL.png]](http://puu.sh/53GUL.png)
![[Image: 53GVE.png]](http://puu.sh/53GVE.png)
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