First attempt

[Draucia]

It looks like you got the clipping mask thing sorted out .
Oh and for the new one you posted:
Looks good, did you make this in some other program then photoshop?
Looks KINDA messy, but not that much. Maybe use some brighter colors and sharpen/smudge/blur in some places?
It looks pretty good 7/10.

 

[desu]

It'd be awesome if T R 1 B A L were to check out my sig and this:

wtf is that just pen tool lines on stroke and beveled with different colour overlays????

 

[Jam3s]

Unfortunately... yeah...

Well, I added a Gaussian blur effect and used a gradient layer mask to make it only effect over the horizon. Yes, I used brushes to make the design, but I added a glow effect on it, for the red tinge and I lowered the brightness on the original picture. Take a look:

Yeah, I did feel sort of guilty that I didn't make those effects by using a brush and adding effects to the brush layer, but I have no idea how to make that stuff :/ I'm still a beginner, so I'm proud of it, anyways.

Amazing, nice one mate!