As always, we have to make a new document in order to make a hawt tage like this. We can do this by going to File > New or press CTRL+N on our keyboard. Choose size dimensions that you are familiar and comfortable with. The size used here is 375 x 109 pixels.
Your background should now be white
Create a new layer. We can do this by going to Layer > New Layer or by pressing CTRL + shift + N. After that, get out your Brush tool (b) and select a 356 pixel soft brush as well. Now select a pink color (#E852D5 was used here). Stroke a pinkish zig-zag line near the left of your signature like so:
Create another new layer. This time select a yellow color as your foreground. The hex #EDF008 was used here. With your Brush tool (b) and the same brush as before, stroke your tag near the bottom, right next to your pink squiggly line like so:
Again, create a new layer. Select an aqua blue color as your foreground this time. #41E4E6 was the one used here. Grab your brush tool (b) and still with your 35 pixel soft brush, stroke a squiggly aqua blue line. Leave some room between the aqua blue line and the yellow line.
Yet again, make a new layer. Select a purple color as your foreground. The color used here was #9A05F0. With your Brush tool (B) aling with the brush we have always been using, create a curvy line right between the aquya blue and yellow line.
Create a new layer again. Take out your brush tool (B) with a 1 pixel brush and on your keyboard press F5. Your brush settings should pop out. Use these for them:
Now select a dark ping/almost purple color and start to brush near the pink squiggly line. Feel free to brush on the line a bit as well.
Make a new layer. This time get out a dark yellow/gold color and with the same brush settings and everything, btush on the pink dots we just made and also, get some in the pink squiggly line again.
Create another layer. Select a veru dark pink/red color and with your Brush tool (B) and the same settings, start to stroke near the purple, yellow and aqua blue lines until you get a result that is close to this:
Now select an aqua blue color as your foreground, after that make a new layer. With your Brush tool (B) and the same settings as always, start to brush little dots near the purple and pink soft brush lines like so:
Make a new layer and repeat with the same solors and settins, only this time, brush on the pinks squiggly lune to the left so it's close to the other dots on that side like so:
Create a new layer once again. You may have heared this already, but with your Brush tool (B) and the same settings as usual, select a dark purple as your foreground color. After that, stroke it where you feel there's some empty space in your tag.
New layer. Select a lime-green as your foreground anf take out your Brush tool (B) with the same settings as before. Stroke your tag rigth in the middle of all the effects like so:
New layer. Grab your Brush tool (b), but this time select a 35 pixel soft brush. With the same lime green color as before, stroke your tag near the bottom of your tag like so:
Another new layer. Get out your Brush tool (B) along with your 35 pixel soft brush. Choose a yellow color as your foreground and brush a squiggly right on top of your aqua blue line, just make sure that you don't cover up all the aqua blue.
New Layer. Grab your brush tool yet again and with your 35 pixel soft brush select a purple color as your foreground. Stroke the tag in one place where you think it's too empty.
Yay! Let's do something different now. Go to Layer > New > New Layer them Image > Apply Image. After that, head on over to Filter > Distort > Displace. Fine a unique .psd that gives your tag a 'wow' factor effect.
Set the layer to Lughten at 100% opacity
Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Invert
Set it to soft Light at 50% opacity
Layer > New > New Layer then Image > Apply Image. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Here are your settings for it:
Set it to Soft Light at 39% opacity
Layer > New > New Layer then Image > Apply Image. Go to Filter > Diffuse Glow. Here are your settings:
Set it to Soft Light at 100% opacity.
Once again, Layer > New > New Layer > then Image > Apply Image. Go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen and leave the layer as is.
Layer > New > New Layer then Image > Apply image. Go to Filter > Distort > Displace and find a .psd that is similar to the one we used before. Make sure it looks nice and then leave the layer alone.
Layer > New adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast. Here are your settings:
Get put your Blur Tool (R) and with any sized soft brush, blur some area that you think are annoying, standing out too much. Some of the dots that were sticking way out in the tag were blurred by the creator.
New Layer. Grab your brush tool (B) aling with a 35 pixel soft brush again, and set white as your foreground color. Create a white dot right in the middle of your tag's effects like so:
Layer > New > New Layer. With your Brush Tool (B) still out, press F5. Here are your brush settings. (yes they're the same from earlier.)
Set black as your foreground color and starting from the white hole that we just made in the center of our tag's effects, make a flowing trail of lines until your are pretty close to the left end of the tag:
Make a new layer again. Take out your brush tool (B) and select a 13 pixel hard brush. Again, starting from the top of the white hle we made, create a curvy flowing motion down to the bottom of your take like so:
Set the layer to Normal at 19% opacity
Create a new layer. Get out your Paint Bucket tool (G) and fill your layer with black. After that, grab your eraser tool (E) and select a nice bru sh that has sort of a 'cloudy' feel to it. Erase mose of the layer until you have about this much left:
Move it around until you find a spot that it looks beautiful in.
New Layer. Get your brush tool (B) back out. You should still have the settings to create tiny dots. Set black as your foreground color and start to create a mountain of dots on the left side of your tag like so:
New layer again. Take out your brush tool and everything, this time set your foreground color to white. Brush inside of the dot mountain so it doesn't look too crowded.
Layer > New > New Layer then Image > Apply Image. Get out your Dodge tool (O) and lighten a small part of your tag using any soft brush of your ch oice.
New Layer. Get out your bruush tool (B) aling with a 100 pixel brush. Select any red color as your foreground, but first of all let's set the layer's mode to Lineair dodge. Stroke your tak in these places for some nice effects:
Repeatt he last step, only this time use a purple color and place the lighting effects here:
Now add in a tad of a C4D that matches your tag's colors. Place it at the bottom of your tag towards the left side. Set it to Color Dodge at 35% opactiy.
Layer > New > New Layer and them Image > Apply Image. Now grab your blur tool (R). Use it on a small area of your tag to create some depth. Also, your can try to add some lighting in area with a soft brush as well.
Layer > New > New Layer then Image > Apply Image. Take out your Sharpen Tool (R) and sharpen any part of your tag that you think is a little to blurred.
Layer > New Layer then Image > Apply Image. Note: this setup could be confusing for some, if you don't get it just add in a stock and follow the rest of the steps. With your brush tool (B) brush in a yellow tan/color and then a brown color until your tah looks kind of like a desert. Erase (E) parts with a small soft brush here and there, then grab your Sharpen Tool (R) and start to sharpen the tag so it looks like a texture:
Now hide that layer for a moment bu clicking in the eye next to ut. Go to Layer > New > New Layer then Image > Apply Image. Make sure this layer is above the desert layer we just made. Set this layer's mode to luminosity and then unhide the desert layer.
For the next 3 layers, get out any sized soft pixel brush that you would use for lightening and brush in these colors:
Set them all to Linear Dodge at 100% opacity
Create a new Layer. Grab your Brush tool (B) and press F5, here are your settings:
Brush a black swarm of them wherever you feel is best. This is not the exact brush as the one in the sig. Feel free to try and make a better one. ;)
Now create a new layer and then take out your Elleptical Marquee Tool (M). Make a small circle selection near the swarm of brushes that we just made. Right click your tag and select 'Stroke'. Keep the color as black and change the width to 2 pixels
For the next 2 layers, I have no say in what you make so I won't explain them. Just make custom shapes. Here the creatr stuck with the Japanese theme and added Japanese like symbols. Just be creative here.
Make a new layer and get out your brush tool (B). Select a 100 or 200 ixel soft brush, and in the left corner of your tag gently brush the side for some nice 'dark' lightening.
Layer > New > New Layer and then Image > Apply Image. Get out your Burn Tool (O) and with a 100 pixel soft brush selected, burn the whole tag once, and once ONLY
Layer > New > New Layer then Image > Apply Image. Set the layer's mode to Multiply at 100% Opacity.
Create a new layer. Get out your brush tool along with a 100 pixel soft brush. Set your foreground color as white and brush two big circles right in the center of your tag:
Set it to soft light at 100% opacity.
Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color. Use these settings:
Add a new layer and get out your Brush Tool (B) along with a 100 pixel soft brush. Add some more lighting to the left side until it looks good enough for you.
Create a new layer and grab your Pencil Tool (B) and with a 1 pixel brush plus black as your foreground color, brush a line near the dark lighting so it flows with the rest of your tag like so:
Layer > New adjustment layer > Color balance. Use these settings:
And you're done, download the end result as .psd here