I love signal wizard so much! Would you be willing to show how you did the noise effect? It looks sooooo good and I have no idea where you even started lmao
Sure! It was a pretty messy and experimental process, so there isn't an easy step by step recreation method, but I can go over the tools that I used.
It was largely thanks to the Dissolve blending mode which turns opacity gradients into pixelated ones:
I would first create a solid shape that I liked, then airbrush the edges to be less distinct on a Dissolve layer, and then use a textured brush to carve the airbrushed edges out a bit to make the shape more gritty and rough. Then I put a desaturated noise filter with its brightness levels adjusted to boost the contrast on top of it all. Here's a simplified step through with just one extra tone added at the end to give the shape some volume:
I layered a lot of these in different tones on top of each other with different opacities and blending modes and messed around with differently textured brushes until I was happy with the look. Then I threw in some tidbits of magenta and cyan for a little color and voila! The Noise.
