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Since I've seen alot of people do it, I decided to try it myself.
I am still a rookie and this is the first time I'm going this.
Comments, Tips are appreciated because I need them.

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Last edited by Srbija on Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:12 pm, edited 46 times in total.

i'm no where near an expert on photoshop, so don't be expecting any tips from me sorry
anyway not bad for a first time-there could be a bit more in it imo

Thanks for the comment anyway.

yeh its not bad for a first try but adding more effects and stuff will help

Thanks Fitzy

Here is V2 of Tupac. I fixed the background abit, so it looks abit better IMO.



Comments, Tips are welcome.

I smell nbalive744 in you, not good, not good at all.

Relax man. It's just my first sig.

Thats what they all say then in 17 pages, you cant tell which is which.

I thought I'd just have a little fun and these guys are all flaming me. Maybe I should just quit before even more people start to aswell.

Nah don't quit man.Just work on your cuting more(make sure you use polygonal lasso toll,everything else sucks),do basic backgrounds at first then when you get a hang of it try something diffrent,read some tutorials and you will improve in no time.

Added 2 versions of 50 Cent. Hopefully you'll like this more.

Comments, tips welcome.

It has potential but I'm really not digging the text. You are improving, though, which is good. I'd also recommend adding a solid 1 pixel black border but that's just a personal preference. Keep on practicing and you'll get the hang of it.

Thanks, really appreciate the comment.

If you could tell me how to add borders I would because I don't have a clue atm. I havn't used PhotoShop for long so I need to learn it and hopefully my sigs will be better.

I'll give you some more indepth stuff, you'll get nowhere with basic "Yeah it's ok" comments.

Backgrounds:

The thing with backgrounds is that they can save a graphic. You can make something seem great without having a spectacular main pic or good text... I've noticed with yours you're operating without brushes and stuff, but you basically have two options if you want to make good backgrounds:

• Brushes.
  Download them from Deviantart.com, and read the mini-tutorials on how to install them. They're listed all around the place, the most basic way is to download them then copy/paste them into your Brushes folder, which is generally located in the Presets folder of the main Adobe Photoshop CS2 folder. Go to GameRenders.com and check out their tutorial section. Ignore the fact that nbalive744 goes there, because their BG tutorials are actually very good. Experiment a bit with those and learn some new things, then try it out with some sigs. Just create a 500x500 image and screw around with the brushes to get used to it.
  
  Example:
  
  
  
• Pictures.
  This is one I used a bit when I was starting out, if you can get a decent graphic I'd be more inclined to fade that into the background or set it to Overlay or something. Never underestimate the power of a picture background when you're a beginner, not enough people use it IMO and if you do it properly and use decent Adjustment Layers (Layer > New Adjustment Layers) it'll look pretty cool. What you're doing now is too plain, but you can easily change that so not to worry. Test it out first, like the brushes, don't rush in and make a sig with it straight up.
  
  Example:
  
  
  
• Brush + Pic
  This is probably my favourite, and the one I use the most. If you can combine both brushing + pictures it can make a pretty sweet background. It's a little more advanced, so one to try when you get more accustomed to doing things on PS but the main things you'll need to use are Adjustment Layers (Namely Levels, Curve and Colour Balance) and layer effects like Overlay, Darken, Soft Light etc... it takes alot of experimenting and sometimes it can be hard to get the result you want, but if you can master it it's definitely worth it.
  
  Examples:
  
  
  
  
  
  

Text

I'm not too great with text, but the best advise I can give is to just keep it as simple as possible. Block text usually works better than script if you're just beginning, you'll see in alot of my stuff that I generally just use plain white Impact or Big Noodle Titling for my text. It might be basic but sometimes that's better.



With the positioning, try not to just have it floating around. Personally I prefer it to either be A) in between the end of the graphic and the border, or B) hugging the border. As far as I'm concerned, unless you do something fantastic with your text the focus should be on the picture and the background.

Pictures

Colin's the master at this, but you definitely should use Layer Effects. It's so amazingly simple, all you do basically is right click the layer in which your main picture is on, Duplicate it, and set the Duplicated layer to something like Overlay, Darken etc. It gives the picture an added quality, and personally I just think it looks alot better since most pictures you'll use aren't really well lit so nothing is accentuated. For instance, with a simple Overlay your 50 Cent pic goes from this:



To this:



It's a small change, but it's an improvement none the less.

Hopefully you can get something out of this, if you've got any questions just say. This isn't really advanced stuff but as a beginner it should be helpful. To reitterate though, definitely go to GameRenders.com and check out their tutorials, it's very helpful.

As far as borders go, I create a new layer, Select All > Select > Modify > Border 1 or 2 px > Edit > Fill with whatever colour you want. You get this:

I said I smelt nbalive744 in him because he replied to every single comment made, and that's what you've sorta done so far..

Thanks alot Jae. That really helped I'll be sure to use the information you gave me in the next sig I do.

Thanks again.

EDIT: I downloaded these brushes and I put them in the folder you said. Now I went to PS and went on load brushes but it said that it is not compatible with the version you have. Do I need to get new brushes because these ones were really good.
I have Version 6.0 btw.

Yeah, you have to look through the brushes for ones that say 'made with 6.0'. It sucks, I know; I have 7.0 and there's hardly any brushes available.

Added The Game.
Thanks to Jae for showing me how to make my sig better.
Hopefully you will like it.

Comments, tips welcome as usual.

Your definatly improving

The Game sig isnt all to bad although I prefer the 2nd version better.

Yeah, Jae showed me how to use different techniques and that's why I put that one in my sig.

Last edited by Srbija on Wed May 24, 2006 5:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Borders

1. Create a New Layer [alt+ctrl+n].
2. Edit > Select All [ctrl+a].
3. Edit > Stroke [press s after you click edit].

Make sure you have inside selected and choose 1 px or 2 px for the size on the stroke tool and usually black works best for the border color.

There's quite a few different other ways to add a border but I find this one to be the most convenient since I've been doing it for so long.

Next sig you make, try and do it with just a pic for a background and see what you can manage. Or overlap pic after pic and just add effects, you can come up with all sorts of shit.

Yeah, I was thinking of doing that. Just got to find some decent pics.

Anyways, Simpsons is starting

Btw, Where I can download text's because the second one you said Jae isn't on my version of Photoshop.

dafont.com has alot of good fonts... and for decent pics, try one of the websites from http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm ... they have pics of virtually anything you can think of.

Added Nelly
I have just done a picture as a background and done a few things with it but mainly trying new techniques too see how it ends up.


Comments, tips welcome as always.