Create Rainbow Logos with Warped Grids

Apr 9th in Designing by Fabio

This tutorial is another user's request. It's an easy technique, but I'm sure you will be able to use it in all sorts of designs. It's very versatile. In this case, I used this technique for a logo, but I could use it to create grids with light effects as well.

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Author: Fabio

I am a Brazilian designer living in Porto Alegre (south of Brazil).In 2003, I founded a web design studio called ZEE, with Fabiano Meneghetti, an architect and friend of mine. It's a small studio now, with 4 people working basically with web.

Step 1

Create a new document and fill the background with black. After that create a new layer. With the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) create a rectangular selection like the image below. After that fill the selection with black again.

Step 2

Go to Filter>Stylize>Tiles. Use 10 for the Number of Tiles, and 1% for the Maximum Offset.

Step 3

Go to Filter>Blur>Motion Blur. Use 90 degrees for the Angle and a distance of 60 pixels.

Step 4

With the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) select the bottom of the grid and delete it, so it won't have that faded- out look.

Step 5

Go to Edit>Transform>Warp. Then select Flag.

Step 6

Double-click on the layer to open the Layer Style Dialog Box. Select the Gradient Overlay. Change the Blend Mode to Multiply and use Linear for the Style and 0 degree angle.

For the colors use red, yellow, green, and cyan.

Step 7

Add the text now and we have our first version of the logo.

Step 8

Repeat the Steps 1 to 4. Then instead of using Warp, let's use Perspective and Distort.

Start using Perspective. Move the vertices to the center and create the perspective. After that, select Distort just to make some adjustments.

Step 9

Repeat Step 6 again and add a Gradient Overlay to the symbol.

Step 10

With the grid in perspective, we can apply the warp again and test different styles, below I show some variations.

Conclusion

This is a very quick and at the same time very useful technique. You can use it to create grids. Below I show an example of a grid I've created using it. Also you can create the effect without the grid but only with the gradient. There are lots of possibilities. It's all about playing with the tools.


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    apenzoon April 9th

    NIce

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    Linney April 9th

    Very nice.

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    Millos April 9th

    Awsome!!!
    You have the coolest PSD tutorials!GREAT WORK, MAN!

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    kos April 9th

    nice

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    Besen April 9th

    Very Great… !!!!

    Thank you!

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    Zach April 9th

    pretty cool. i could use this in some header graphics and such. i give it a 8 out of 10.

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    Mätthi April 9th

    Cool, simple and clean effect. I like your conclusions. Might become inspirational for some work.

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    q!p April 9th

    Wow, nice, great looking simple effect. Good job!

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    Colin Stein April 9th

    i love this one!

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    x0n April 9th

    nice fabio….
    very nice… AGAIN…

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    scottie April 9th

    Fabio -

    i cherish your knowledge and generosity in sharing such info…please, Please, PLEASE, can you fill me in on how people are doing this ( http://www.inkoperated.com/images/colorefulLines01.jpg )
    a tutorial or a private message or anything would be most appreciated.

    i have tried using the warp tool along with your digital smoke tutorials and a gradient overlay, but nothing of the sort is coming out…

    pls help!

    thank you.

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      the villain May 1st

      its just smoke with a gradient overlay.

      here this should help.

      http://abduzeedo.com/using-graphic-design-inspiration-create-cool-website-header-fireworks

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    kwahmi April 9th

    great tut

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    betsy April 9th

    fantastic! simple technique, but so very useful. thanks!

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    Alen April 9th

    Simple but cool.

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    Guido April 9th

    Amacing… realy…

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    Marian April 9th

    Thanks buddy! I owe you a coffee! ;)

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    Ben Griffiths April 9th

    Nice effect with plenty of cariation, thanks :D

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    giackop April 9th

    thanx fabio.. great tutorial

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    Ewan April 9th

    GREAT! I love this website

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    Fredro April 9th

    So simple and effective, very nice tut!!

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    frank vasquez April 9th

    Great tutorial my friend!

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    Wouter April 9th

    Tutorial is great

    Comment is very very bad !

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    Jakerrr April 9th

    Nice Tutorial.

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    omarterrones April 9th

    This is really good!!

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  25. Hey hey… Fabio is back :) )

    Great one pal. ;)

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    Mark April 9th

    ok

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    Daniel April 9th

    Nice Tutorial…

    It remembers me at a Kodak Ad!

    Daniel

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    Greg William April 9th

    Yea this is a great tutorial!

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    Flaunt April 9th

    good tut, love the way you show the various examples of how to use the effect across different designs

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    Sean Hodge April 9th

    This is a great tut. I use the warp tools all the time in Illustrator when making logos. I didn’t even realize they where in Photoshop. Thanks.

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    kailoon April 9th

    Nice !!!

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    Jas April 9th

    Very cool but the rainbow thing is getting played out, IMO.

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    TaiKai April 9th

    This is fabulous! Really great tut Fabio. Simple but very useful. And I love that you showed how versatile the effect can be with the different arrangements. Thanks for this!

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    max947 April 9th

    very nice tutorial, love the site!

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    Tama April 9th

    thank you Fabio, great tutorial as always!

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    BogDinamita April 9th

    nice to hear from you again Fabio, very inspiring as usual; thanksalot!!

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    Lamin Barrow April 9th

    Nice and simple. Very cool. :)

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    Shane April 9th

    Nice one Fabio – that’s quite a simple tutorial in terms of steps and difficulty of steps, but the result is very effective and pleasing on the eye.

    Cheers.

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    Arnaud April 9th

    Simple and class

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    Mark Bowen April 9th

    Again a great little tutorial. Not difficult to figure out and do but a very nice finish to it so well done.

    I think perhaps you have missed out a small step though where you have created the grid and then in the next image you have a grid without edges. You have in the image the marquee selecting one of the images which you would have then deleted but it wasn’t mentioned. It’s fairly obvious what you have done but some people may get confused.

    Easily fixable though ;-)

    Best wishes,

    Mark

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    Ali April 9th

    Yay for Fabio

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    b00m April 9th

    Nice playing with Grids

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    Fabio Sasso April 9th

    Hey everybody, thanks a lot for the comments, and I’m glad you liked the tutorial……. its a very useful technique, like I’ve been using it all the time, but the best thing is that it’s really simple ;)

    @Mark, yeah that marquee selection was to show that, but I forgot to explain :( I did that to make it look a bit harder :)

    all the best!

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    Daniel April 9th

    Very nice one as usual. Sharp and simple.

    Thanks a lot Fabio.

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    Jake April 9th

    Hey, sweet tutorial. Reminds me of the logo at http://www.northcolour.com/. I’ve always been curious about how they do that.

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    goldenthunder April 9th

    Fabio, I love all the work you have been doing with this color schema! Keep up the great work and thank you!

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    Si April 9th

    simplisty is king once you know how

    would never of used tiles filter before now

    great show – encore

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    Mario April 9th

    I’ve noticed the site had some amazing tutorials to start with, but lately the quality has greatly depreciated. It seems the site is going for a quantity vs quality path.

    It seems like there are alot of people here that are quite good at Photoshop judging by the flickr group but the tutorials are almost insulting. Color adjustment and super simple logos are not the way to go, if you guys could provide some more quality tutorials like you guys started with that would be great.

    Plus Member,
    Mario

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    Alec April 9th

    How did you make those gloving balls on the last pic? Nice tut!

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    Alec April 9th

    *Edit Hey, why should those that are very good at photoshop always complain at the more simple tutorials? Ok, you guys might not learn anything from it but for those of us that haven’t been photoshopping for all that long, these tutorials are just what we need to get better and make progress as we develop our skills.
    If you are so good, why are you looking at a tutorial site all the time? Use your own creativity and skills to get better and make some own work.
    “This tutorial is another user’s request.

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    therapix April 9th

    Nice, that was clever!

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    mattems April 9th

    love it.. great work! Thanks for sharing this.

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    george April 9th

    i want to see some tuts from Collis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    :)

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    Paulo Sales April 9th

    Fabio´s stuff is pretty amazing..basic tuts but allways great concepts…less is more(sometimes)…well done again!

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    infinite April 9th

    Get this man a NEW (Australian Beer). Great tut man. Keep ‘em coming

    Cheers

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    Andrew April 9th

    EXCELLENT TUT! I have played around with this before, but never gotten such good results! Keep it up!

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    Joefrey Mahusay April 9th

    Great job. Really nice tut.

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    Chris April 9th

    I’m not too fond of the end result, but the warp and grid techniques are pretty interesting. All in all, a decent tutorial.

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    LOSWL April 9th

    I love this tutorial, it opens up a brilliant new tool for me, very impressed!!

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    Herbalife April 9th

    Wow. That’s a nice effect. Time to make some rainbows and a pot of gold. :)

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    ibrahim.x April 9th

    you have an illistrator way to do this ?

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    Captain April 9th

    Nice Idea

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    Andrew D April 9th

    Great tutorial! I heart the warp tool.

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    jguiss April 9th

    easy and clean, thanks !

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    Markus April 9th

    Yay! I was waiting for this :P

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    Sheldon Levene April 9th

    Can we have a tut on designing a vehicle wrap for cars, as in step by step and scaled for print. thx

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    Tom April 9th

    These tutorials are amazing, the final result is great.
    I love the colours as in the other tutorial to create a rainbow background.

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    sct April 10th

    I really love the examples at the bottom. Great tutorial.

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    ng April 10th

    Thanks for the tutorial.

    Question… how do you adjust the thickness of the lines? In the conclusion you had one image where the lines were very thick. Can you tell me how you do that?

    Thanks again.

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    Sean Farrell April 10th

    When are we going to have members only content.. I mean, yeah its only $9, but we’ve only had one tutorial for paying extra. (yes i know we get to download layer styles) .. But I want to see some member only stuff If i’m actually going to pay for using the site.. Thanks.

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    internet news April 10th

    another fine tutorial loving it! great technique’s

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    JokR April 10th

    simple yet great . . . love the examples at the end I just have to try them myself

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    Fabio Sasso April 10th

    @ng – to make that one very thick, just fill the selection with white in the first step and the rest is the same…

    Thanks a lot for the comments ;)

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    Bye Tom April 10th

    Wohoooow! Finally a tutorial which covers a technique and not just a super-advanced text-effect. I totally love that it´s so easy and fast. It´s a masterpiece!

    / Bye Tom

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    nkhat April 10th

    nice idea my friend :) thank you

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    Gavin April 10th

    Very nice effect. Thank you so much for this tutorial. They are really good quality.

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    Rami Reddy Dinne April 10th

    Very nice tutorial and it’s very easy to create

    nice presentation

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    rlbraga April 10th

    Nice abduzeedoo … Simple and beautifull … this warped grids made nice effects ..

    “Valeu parcero” .. Brazuka na área !!!

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    Jas April 10th

    Something without rainbows next time? Perhaps? K thx bai.

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    riq pepino April 11th

    “abduzeedo” i like the font… can you post a link where you downloaded it from

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    Alex April 11th

    I love the effect where you have shiny drops of light amongst the grid lines… but i haven’t the slightest idea how to go about doing that myself… can anyone help?
    Thanks!
    PS: this tutorial and website kick booty!

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    Jay April 12th

    i wonder why each time i want to make it blur, phostohop suddenly crash. i cant make it blur. is there any way i can do? this tutorial looks like fun to do it =(

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    Haris Siddiqui April 12th

    Note* View the Image in full size, luks much better

    Just finish the Cover of a Catalog i designed, nothing special but i though i’d show the technique i used which can be found here -

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/maumin/2405176461/

    - The only reason why i’m posting this is because i have seen many PSDTUT visitors complain about the quality of these tutorials. For me every single tutorial matters, and by simply altering PSDTUT method in the tutorial above, i created a different effect for the cover page which was first all black.

    So my point is tht user need to calma down and remember that even a small twist in a tutorial which might not seem much for the time being can be very helpful in kept in mind for the right time.

    ^__^

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    Matt Gardiner April 12th

    Dude. Very cool effect!

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    ps3 blog April 12th

    i love waves of lights – hoping for a tutorial on how to create stunning gradients – maybe i will create one lol

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    TommyP April 15th

    Thats the muts nuts man. Looks so nice as a wallpaper with a tag under it.

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    Saro April 16th

    I love you!

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    Libor Fikr April 19th

    I Love You. Thank you very much for this tutorial.

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    syrup88 April 22nd

    nice tut, very easy too. thanks

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    ZOZX April 23rd

    thanks a lot

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    Qbrushes April 24th

    i’m going to try the 2nd one in your example. that looks awesome

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    Katalog Stron April 28th

    Very nice. I like it a lot.

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    Vita April 30th

    Absolutely TOP!!!!!!!!

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  94. Well an amazing post, and well explained too with the brilliant tut.

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    R.R May 22nd

    Cool Tutorial.

    Sadly I have Photoshop CS and not CS2 or CS3…but I can improvise.

    Anyways..it is a cool way to learn to use filters more effectively.

    Thanks

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    Robbert June 12th

    Someone tried to copy your tutorial lol: (in Dutch though)

    http://www.tomatesworld.be/?p=35#comment-49

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    jameslh June 30th

    Does anyone know where the MSNBC mast head tutorial is?

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    ultradax July 8th

    @Robbert: They just translated it, the final picture clearly shows the PSDtuts logo. I don’t speak that language but the last sentence seems to be a disclaimer: “Originele tutorial is te vinden op PSDTuts.com”

    Very nice tutorial Fabio. :)

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    Mansoor July 24th

    Thanks for Posting.
    Excellent Tut.

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    Herbalife August 19th

    Excellent Tutorial.

    I have Photo shop CS and not CS2 or CS3…but I can improvise.

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    Kslad September 3rd

    Woah! Nice!!!

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    Leonardo September 5th

    Hello friendly,

    Excellent tutorial, somebody can say to me like making this effect.

    http://www.electronicabin.com/lines.jpg

    Thanks

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    marinella September 21st

    its very good tutorial. . . its the best!
    Can i post this to my blog?

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    Phil September 27th

    how to get that sparkle effect?

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    Softa October 11th

    This is absolutely wonderful! I think I will use it in a challenge we’re holding tomorrow. I hope that is ok?
    And I too would like to know how to get that sparkle effect!

    I will definately look forward to more of your tuts!

    Love,
    Softa

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    Tommas October 24th

    What is the name of the texttype(psdtuts) you used under the rainbow?

    Thanks for answer.

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    AmR ELHaMi November 8th

    Very Useful , Thanks alot

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    nrmlfx January 4th

    I like this tut.

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    Sergio January 7th

    amazing!!!! the way the tutorial ends with so many creative images from 1 tut.. keep it up1 XD

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    Oktay Oe. February 4th

    Thanks a lot :)

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    saroj March 5th

    nice

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    prasad.ap March 16th

    i got a goood tutorial.. thank u very much

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    underdog March 27th

    wonderfulllllllllllllllllllllllllll

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    Assa May 1st

    really great tut

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    Chetan Madaan May 1st

    Really Interesting Tut!

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    jmarreros September 30th

    this tut is easy to follow with a great result, thanks

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    Xkalaze October 10th

    thanks for sharing mate ^^ amazing effect

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    Silence November 14th

    Excelent!

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