TopHatMan
07-09-2007, 03:09 AM
This is the guide to sig making.
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Ok, this is the guide to signiture, or sig making. Many people always try to make a sig, but fail horribly, so they get others to do it for them, but this guide is here to help
Part One: Get your pictures.
All good signitures aren't just words in a screen. A good signiture is one where you have one or more pictures, and you edit the pictures using the picture editor's effects. Most people have something like Photoimpression or something like that, so this guide may be a little confusing if you don't becuase I use Photoimpression. ANYWAYS, get a picture that says something about you, and please no more pictures of a guy with a gun there are ALOT of those. When you get your picture, load it into your photo editor, and you've got your first step.
Part Two: Starting on the picture.
Now, to get a background, it is neccesary to use the crop tool. The crop tool cuts the picture out from its background, depending on how you do it. I personally use the line tool, which lets you go around it using the straight line tool you'd find on paint. You need to cut out the picture or else the background won't show up. Try to get as close to the picture as you can, or else there will be a white line going around your picture, which will look bad. Without cropping, a background will be useless.
Part Three: The Background.
This is the time consuming part of the process, and the longer you spend, the better the sig will be. Most people take a copy of the main picture, then recolor, some other effects and blur it. I'll talk about a common effect.
1. First, Copy your first picture, then copy it as many times as you please(put them in different places, upside down, sideways etc). Merge down all of the copies EXCEPT your main picture. Now go to Effects, and hit Blur. Try this over and over until you can hardly tell its the main picture. Then change the color to what you want, or change the hue for a darker, lighter (or black, grey and white) background. There are other effects as well, such as whirpool and crosshatch, a nice combo that makes a nice little effect.
Well i hope you liked my little guide, and btw this is intended for people with half a brain, so have fun with it ^.^
~~~~~~~
Ok, this is the guide to signiture, or sig making. Many people always try to make a sig, but fail horribly, so they get others to do it for them, but this guide is here to help
Part One: Get your pictures.
All good signitures aren't just words in a screen. A good signiture is one where you have one or more pictures, and you edit the pictures using the picture editor's effects. Most people have something like Photoimpression or something like that, so this guide may be a little confusing if you don't becuase I use Photoimpression. ANYWAYS, get a picture that says something about you, and please no more pictures of a guy with a gun there are ALOT of those. When you get your picture, load it into your photo editor, and you've got your first step.
Part Two: Starting on the picture.
Now, to get a background, it is neccesary to use the crop tool. The crop tool cuts the picture out from its background, depending on how you do it. I personally use the line tool, which lets you go around it using the straight line tool you'd find on paint. You need to cut out the picture or else the background won't show up. Try to get as close to the picture as you can, or else there will be a white line going around your picture, which will look bad. Without cropping, a background will be useless.
Part Three: The Background.
This is the time consuming part of the process, and the longer you spend, the better the sig will be. Most people take a copy of the main picture, then recolor, some other effects and blur it. I'll talk about a common effect.
1. First, Copy your first picture, then copy it as many times as you please(put them in different places, upside down, sideways etc). Merge down all of the copies EXCEPT your main picture. Now go to Effects, and hit Blur. Try this over and over until you can hardly tell its the main picture. Then change the color to what you want, or change the hue for a darker, lighter (or black, grey and white) background. There are other effects as well, such as whirpool and crosshatch, a nice combo that makes a nice little effect.
Well i hope you liked my little guide, and btw this is intended for people with half a brain, so have fun with it ^.^