Prince of Persia signature tutorial Page 1

Hi all, welcome to my tutorial.
Today I will try to teach you making this tag:

Start off by creating a new canvas, mine is 340x110, and fill it with a not so dark nor bright color, a bit grayish. Im using this color: “#777272”. Take the BURN tool and brush abit on the sides. It’ll look like this:

Now place your render in the canvas, I’m using the one of Prince of Persia provided at the bottom of this page.
Take out the smudge tool and use these settings:

Copy your render a couple of times and smudge using those settings. Don’t oversmudge it, the other parts will be covered later. Repeat this step untill the whole background is covered, you can move your copies of the render to the sides if you don’t reach all the background it by only doing this. Set all layers to color dodge. My result:

Doesn’t look really sexy huh :S, well… move a unedited copy of your render to the top, leave it like it is.
Now move another copy of your render to the top and smudge only al little bit. Just try to get one “splash”, set to pinlight, my result:

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