Basic Signature Tutorial (Made by Me)

ThisIsChris · Post by **ThisIsChris** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:06 am

First we need the basics.

1200+ Font Pack:
http://www.moviemakers.nu/?p=tutorial&id=38

Other Font Websites:
http://www.1001freefonts.com
http://www.dafont.com
http://www.acidfonts.com
http://www.simplythebest.net/fonts
http://www.1001fonts.com
http://www.fontfile.com

Renders:
http://files.filefront.com/Rendersrar/; ... einfo.html --- All of my renders.
http://www.clantemplates.com/renders/gallery/
http://www.gamerenders.com/forum/index. ... le=gallery
http://www.gfxgamers.net/gallery/index.php?cat=6
http://www.dilutedfx.com/index.php?s=fd ... owforum=47
http://www.gaming-memories.com/game-art.php
http://www.bungie.net/Games/Halo2/galle ... ers&page=1
http://perfectdark.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/renders/
http://forums.fevergaming.com/archive/i ... f-344.html

Brushes:
http://veredgf.fredfarm.com/vbrush/main.html
http://www.echoica.net/
http://www.dubtastic.com/resources.php
http://www.angryblue.com/downloads.shtml
http://www.deviantart.com/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14489074/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14456696/
http://www.photoshopbrushes.com/

1. Open PhotoShop through a PhotoShop icon or .exe

2. Hit File->New

3. Apply these settings or 500x150 for signatures on this forum.

4. Now Click your paintbrush icon.

5. Now to upload those brushes you have just downloaded (brush part coming soon).

6. Here is the loading screen that pops up, you can only upload 1 set at a time a set can ave from 5-100 brushes.

7. Then choose one of the brushes that we just downloaded.

8. Now you must choose a color to brush with.

9. Now brush a nice background with MANY different brushes (it makes it look better, i just made a 20 second brushing scheme just to show you).

10. Now we must add a render (a picture that belind with the background).

11. So we hit File->Open and open one of our previousley downloaded render packs and find a nice matching render.

12. I chose this one.

13. Now we must crop the image off of its background and copy it to the background we have just made, so we will need our magic wand tool.

14. Now how Shift and Click around the edges of the render and when you have the whole render outlined it should look like this.

15. Now we must select what you have just done so use these settings.

16. Now it should look like this.

17. Now hit Ctrl+C and copy it and then close the render document and hit Ctrl+V on the background we have made. And you your basic moving tool to move the image into the spot you would like it to be.

18. Now you may want to blend your render in (the easy way, for beginners). So you should mess with the opacity settings on the bottom right hand corner.

19. Now we must add some text. First we need our text box tool.

20. Now make a text box.

21. Now find the size and font that you want to put in (try some of the ones we have previousley downloaded)

22. Now write what you want select the text and choose a color that will match the background.

23. It should now look like this (for my name

).

24. Now again, you may want to blend it again, so you may use the basic opacity way.

25. And move your text into the spot you want it, with the movement tool.

26. And here was my quick end result.

Thank You,
Chris

Please post how yours comes out and also comment my tutorial and critique it.

Priam · Post by **Priam** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:57 am

Eeeeeeew Don’t you ever make that font green again!

AoENuker · Post by **AoENuker** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:54 am

its too dark, no light, no border, bad corloring, and i think the sig is way to big.

Draquish · Post by **Draquish** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:18 pm

*thumbs down*

What is riddling me and puzzling me in my mind right now is that you actually wanted us to PAY for your work!

Caras · Post by **Caras** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:53 pm

Its not bad, good job Chris, But the green does does kill the entire sig. I would have used the darker color green that you used in the backround.

Kamoflage · Post by **Kamoflage** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:42 pm

Are you serious only 3 layers. Even my most basic sigs have around 15 layers.
EDIT: Maybe I should comment on the sig
1) The brush look terrible
2) The text looks terrible (thats ok when I add text it ussualy looks terrible)
3) There seems to be a faint outline around the render
4) And ussualy sigs have 10 layers or more

ThisIsChris · Post by **ThisIsChris** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:46 pm

i know, it is to help peopel who have just bought or receuived photoshop, and get them started with brushes, text's, and renders. I will be creating a few others.

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:04 pm

thats a pretty nice tut. chris, although the result wasn't too good i think i will definitely be using this tut.

Blyth · Post by **Blyth** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:28 pm

A nice guide, but your sig's are :banghead:

.

Are you serious only 3 layers. Even my most basic sigs have around 15 layers.

Crap lol, my last sig was made on 3 layers :banghead:

but it looks fine, doesn't it?

(points at his sig)

Tatianasaphira · Post by **Tatianasaphira** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:35 pm

Hell, this siggy below was 5, but the background originally was 4.

I guess what bothers me is that you seem to be two different people. This post is someone that 'believes' he knows something, and the other is a complete newbie to photoshop that is constantly asking others for help.

Especially since you are putting up some of the website I suggested as your own idea...just a thought

Reise · Post by **Reise** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:32 pm

4) And ussualy sigs have 10 layers or more

Just want to point out that layers alone dont make a good sig. It all flattens out in the end anyway. As long as you get what you want on the thing you're good. It's possible to make really good looking pics with 3 or less.

Morgoth · Post by **Morgoth** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:33 am

ill be waiting for your next tut. on sig making

Caras · Post by **Caras** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:22 am

Most my sigs are 10-20 layers.

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:24 am

How do you guys manage to get that many layers?!
Mine are mostly 5-6.
Do you put every single object in e new layer orso? :S

Tatianasaphira · Post by **Tatianasaphira** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:07 pm

Snudge wrote:How do you guys manage to get that many layers?!
Mine are mostly 5-6.
Do you put every single object in e new layer orso? :S

Some do. When I make skins for Ragnarok, I end up with nearly 100 layers for each skin. Depending on my complexity of the siggy, usually I have about 7-8 layers. If I had not cut out the background of my siggie I would have had about 10 layers instead of the 4

Priam · Post by **Priam** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:35 pm

All depends.. brushing can be done in 2 or 3 layers also.. using more layers just makes things a lot easier.

Caras · Post by **Caras** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:53 pm

Snudge wrote:How do you guys manage to get that many layers?!
Mine are mostly 5-6.
Do you put every single object in e new layer orso? :S

I add alot of things to it, some c4d, alot of color overlays to get the perfect colors, and alot more stuff.

RuYi · Post by **RuYi** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:58 pm

I use about 10-15 layers, depends though.

About the tut:
I think it can be helpful for the people who just start working in Photoshop, so 3 layers to start with seems fine to me.

Nice avatar btw, made me lol

Post by **dom** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:23 pm

Tutorial: how to make a trend whore signature.

Funny part about this thread, most people complaining about the tutorial make theirs in the exact same way. Except for the fact that they use more whore tools.

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:07 pm

AAARGH! Sorry, I just am going to ask it here. Anyone got/able to create a tutorial on how to work with C4D renders? I looked on google but I only got with stuff on how to create a C4D render, and I want to work with them in PS. :banghead:

[SD]Master_Wong · Post by **[SD]Master_Wong** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:31 pm

my sig is only 3 layers and it to be honest shite lol butt...i dont use paintshop nor photoshop much soo....

now animations i can do haha

ThisIsChris · Post by **ThisIsChris** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:52 am

thanks for the input everyone, ill come out with a better tutorial here in the next month, if you liked this you can join my graphics community, http://www.mooseweb.net/graphics and see all of my new works, you can make show rooms and do whatever.

AoENuker · Post by **AoENuker** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:15 pm

This should be in the guide section... i dunno any1 else thinks same?

Miyoko · Post by **Miyoko** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:08 am

Well.. he said it was a basic tutorial, atleast he didn't say it was premium this time.
He did try to help people.
Some people might find it useful ..
So a long story short, unless you are willing to make a whole tutorial just to help other people. Shut up.

Btw my last few signatures all end up having 35-45 layers. >.>

ThisIsChris · Post by **ThisIsChris** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:57 am

is there anyone who can make this a sticky?

Key-J · Post by **Key-J** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:58 am

Ryoko is searching for a new MOD for this section.. So just have patience n dont worry your work wont go unoticed.. I personally found this quite insightfull GG!

ElCapuccino · Post by **ElCapuccino** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:45 am

well, i don't care what others say...
this helped me a lot!

I just started making sigs, and I need to thx this topic.
thx again xD.

Scarletrouge · Post by **Scarletrouge** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:51 pm

wow, looking at everyone's siggy art, i relized that there's so many talented ppl. ^_^ so cool.

Quyxz · Post by **Quyxz** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:00 pm

When I was a beginner I always used brush from this exact link.

These days I'm not using brushes anymroe, because I think it's a bit lame to stamp backgrounds from other people in your sig. Then I don't feel that I made the sig.
But for beginners it is a nice way to learn some basics bout coloring and adjustment layers.

Scarletrouge · Post by **Scarletrouge** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:20 pm

what if it is a whole artwork? depend's on the artist to include or make a new bg image right?