Halo Signature Tutorial

Halo Signature Tutorial

Ok, open up a new canvas 400×150

Put our render on canvas and resize it
HALO RENDER
Flip Horizontal our render

Now use rounded brush and pick orange color, and brush pink areas on the render, put blending to Hue


Now put background on the canvas
BACKGROUND IMAGE

The first layer must be in #2d2d2d color. Now, duplicate our background image 7 times, so now we’ve got 8 layers.
Use this settings


Merge brush layer and render layer(CTRL+E)
Now, duplicate our render 5 times, we’ve got 6 layers and use this settings


Now make new layer and fill it with black, use brush on the same layer with different colors to blend a render


After you made this, blue this layer with gaussian blur, radius 3,4 and put blending to color dodge 100%


Put c4d render, and change its color to orange (put c4d layer under the render layers)
C4D RENDER

Put another c4d render and change its color to orange (put c4d layer under the render layers)
C4D RENDER 2

And final c4d put it’s layer to the top
C4D RENDER 3

Use fire effect and place it somewhere
FIRE EFFECT

The same process with another fire effect
FIRE EFFECT 2

Use space effect(Linear Dodge)
SPACE EFFECT 1

Same process and blending but another space effect
SPACE EFFECT 2

Now smudge a little bit(Linear Dodge, duplicate it and set blending to Color Dodge)
SMUDGE EFFECT

Now use some smudges from my pack and change its blending to Linear or Color Dodge

Use this line effect and put blending to Linear Dodge
LINE EFFECT

Gradient Maps, filter,etc…


Now we’ll work on depth. New layer, Image-Apply Image-OK. Filter-Blur-Gaussian Blur-radius 1, opacity 40%.
Delete blur with eraser on the focal.

New layer, Apply Image, use Unsharp mask Amount-40, radius 1, threshold 0

Lightsource
Use this image as a lightsource and put its blending to Linear Dodge
LIGHTSOURCE
Put Stroke and text if you want and you’re done.
Final Result