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[SickJoda]

Hey Guys,
      Here are just some Sigs ive make (w. Photoshop CS2),
I just started, and just wanted you guys to put your imput into them, and some Tips!!











Somethings I am Having trobles with are:
- Erasing extra stuff (other words)
- Cant find normal Eraser tool
- Once i paste picture into sig, i cant move it
- Getting new Fonts for Words

REMEMBER, I AM still learning, so lets keep the Flaming to a minimum! lol.

If you want, you can post a Tut that helped you(or a link to your favorite site for Brushes). Also, I need to learn how to make Boarders.


Cheers,

SickJoda
 

[CamdogXIII]

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Here are just some Sigs ive make (w. Photoshop CS2),
I just started, and just wanted you guys to put your imput into them, and some Tips!!

Somethings I am Having trobles with are:
- Erasing extra stuff (other words)
- Cant find normal Eraser tool
- Once i paste picture into sig, i cant move it
- Getting new Fonts for Words

1. erasing what's there and making it look like it was never there can be a tough task, and there are probably tuts for that.
2. right click on the eraser tool and you should be able to find it
3. that's because the pic is in a different layer, find the layers window and click on the one with the pic. (too lazy to post pics)
4. go to dafont.com and find one, then put it C:\windows\fonts i think

and this would be the best place to go for brushes deviantart.com
and go to good tutorials for some tuts to start you off.
i've been out of the loop for awhile and there might be better places to go.

[CattyKid]

You won't get flamed here, WE don't do that.
It's a great start, I like the 3rd one down and the 4th down (needs work on the fonts though, but then again they all do).
As to moving pictures, when you paste a picture it should go into a new layer.  You should be able to move the picture without moving the background because pasting the picture creates a new layer.  If it does not, create a new layer (click New Layer Button on bottom left toolbox), then paste the picture.
For fonts, www.dafont.com is the best, hands down.  Or, wait until Hazanko (I think) replies.  He made a HUGE fontpack that has hundreds of fonts (I use a lot of them).  There is also a pack of fonts/brushes that Awal posted before, but I'm not sure how long ago.
Here is Awal's Pack
That would be a great start.

As for brushes, www.deviantart.com has SO many.  Just search for "brushes" or "photoshop brushes" or "fractal brushes" or "grunge brushes" or "natural brushes."  Any brush you want, and they should be able to pretty much fit your needs.

For the normal eraser tool, do you mean you want, like, a square or a circle?  Anyway, for the circle, select the eraser, right click on an open picture, click the circle with a triangle in it, and choose "reset brushes," or load the standard brushes.
To erase some stuff, you can just totally erase it and use the CLONE tool and the Healing Tool over the clone brush to make it look more natural.
Here, look at this pic that I did for the sig of the week.  The pic was from behind the net, so the net was all over the goalie's body.  So I used the clone tool and the Healing Brush to get rid of most of the net, although you can still see it a little (I could probably do better now, but I am better now than I used to be.



EDIT: Dammit, Camdog, I just said pretty much everything you did.

[SickJoda]

QUOTE(CattyKid @ Mar 25 2006, 03:11 PM)

As for brushes, www.deviantart.com has SO many.  Just search for "brushes" or "photoshop brushes" or "fractal brushes" or "grunge brushes" or "natural brushes."  Any brush you want, and they should be able to pretty much fit your needs.

For the normal eraser tool, do you mean you want, like, a square or a circle?  Anyway, for the circle, select the eraser, right click on an open picture, click the circle with a triangle in it, and choose "reset brushes," or load the standard brushes.
To erase some stuff, you can just totally erase it and use the CLONE tool and the Healing Tool over the clone brushto make it look more natural.

EDIT: Dammit, Camdog, I just said pretty much everything you did.

Thanks so much guys! just what i needed!

If there is any other suggesstions, post em!

[SickJoda]

OK!

here is once i got after i used all that feedback




I did it in about like 10-15 min. i thinks its pretty good, compared to my others, i played around with some lighting and stuff this time, if i could change one thing it would be the colour the "SickJoda" because you cant really see it that good with the Lens Flair there, but ya thats about all i want to change, but i dont know how so..


Cheers!

SickJoda
 
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QUOTE(metaldevil @ Mar 25 2006, 04:13 PM)

Is this Margaret Thatcher?
Funny stuff.

No, This is..



 

[CattyKid]

I've got a few reccomendations.  For the text, I'd put a 1 or 2 pixels Stroke around it.  It almost always spices it up and separates it from the background, as well as spicing it up and making it more readable.  Also, you might want to go around the edges of the render (picture) with the Blur tool at, about... 50% to make it look smoother.  
I like the lens flare in this one, but make sure to use it sparingly.  Often times it can look pretty cheesy.  Finally, try brushing the background a little to spice it up.

VERY good for a new sig artist, though.  I started a month or two ago, and have gotten much better thanks to all of these guys.

[SickJoda]

QUOTE(CattyKid @ Mar 25 2006, 10:00 PM)

I've got a few reccomendations.  For the text, I'd put a 1 or 2 pixels Stroke around it.  It almost always spices it up and separates it from the background, as well as spicing it up and making it more readable.  
I like the lens flare in this one, but make sure to use it sparingly. Often times it can look pretty cheesy.  Finally, try brushing the background a little to spice it up.

ok, here just one more i made, its not very good, but i used a brush, only "Clouds" and not "Different Clouds" so ya, and also, i just HAD to use the Lens Flair to make Jesus look more holy, lol. but i tryed everything u posted, tryed atleast.

one question, where do i change the pixel stroke? & also, can u get a tut on making the boarders?

k here is the sig..

[SickJoda]

QUOTE(awal @ Mar 26 2006, 03:18 AM)

Thats a start My suggestion is to try a tutorial at http://www.pixel2life.com and then post the result here

i couldent find anyting too useful there, mostly broken links..
here IS what i got out of one site on making boarders.  

im still having trobles doing things like 3D Effects and stuff but heres that sig..



and heres just one more i was fooling around with..



..lol i got like 30 new Fonts so.. i need some new Brushes aswell, i need a link or something


Cheers,
SickJoda
 

[CattyKid]

MUCH better.  MUCH.  No comparison to your first sigs.
I really like the spawn one.
In the Spawn one, what font did you use for your name?

For brushes, keep on looking on Deviantart.com, the have ALL the brushes yuou could ever want/need, also the Seagulls thing will give you a lot of cool stuff.

For the Border on the text, the "Stroke," look at this image, from Awal:

Click on the "Stroke" box, select it, and the rest is self-explanatory.

As for the border, check on this page
Click Here
It's how these guys taught me to do borders.

I'm going to encourgae your to read over that thread, there is a lot of teaching going on in there. That was my first Photoshop thread, much like this is for you.

I think you have gotten MUCH better, keep up the good work and keep them coming!

[Modderxtrordanare]

Go get flock, theres a thread on the gfx forums with a link to it, it has all the brushes and fonts youll need.

[SickJoda]

This next sig is sorta Busy, its hard with the text i used, being all capitals all the time, and also the 2 pictures..

This PC is the one im building right now, and im selling my Xbox to finish it, then im buying another used xbox. then gunna mod it with a Xecuter3, ANYWAYS!, heres this sig..



just wondering where i install Flock too? i just put it in the Photoshop CS2 folder..?

Also, can i add effects to my boarder? because ive seen cooler boarders then this, its quite simple to do this one, but how would i do the FX on it?

[juanman]

yeah im pretty sure you install it to the cs2 folder
good job on the sigs, if i may add something, i think you should change the font on the megaman sig to a old 8-bit era font to keep with the visible pixels in the megaman pic
just go to dafont.com and search for some fonts under like techno blocks or the one retro,
just look around till you find some fonts that fit in with the megaman era
but good job on the sigs, big improvements over the first
and one of the ways i do sigs is to use the rectangle marque tool to select a rectange in the pic with equal area all around, then you go to select and inverse, so the opposite area is now selected and you can fill it with gradients or other effecfts and filters
good luck

[Modderxtrordanare]

Flock installs itself.

[SickJoda]

k ill look around and try to Figure it out..



Any more tips or anything?!

[juanman]

theres my nes one i just got done making, i think a font like the one i used would look nice on the megaman one
back to mine, i tried for about 15 minutes to round the corners on the grey boxes to match the controllers but i realized after i did them, the smb cartridge covered it up.
o well, but how does it look?