BF2S Forums Beginners guide to making sigs with Photoshop

Iminent wrote:

Z-trooper wrote:

UPDATE!!!, again..

oh well, I'm making a guide non the less, but I think instead of teaching people about some advanced techniques (which many of the "pr0"s in here will bash me for not teaching correct in the first place..) I have decided to focus on:

- Animation for beginners!

and some small things I do know something about.. so the new guide will be like this one Beginners guide to making animated sigs using photoshop + some other random stuff you can improve your skills with

you might be asking yourself.. "hmm I've never seen a animated sig from this guy" - correct. I do know how to animate sigs, its just that I've never been that fond of the .gif format.. only 256 colors and some other poor properties..
sorry to dissapoint some beginners that were hoping to learn some "advanced" stuff, its just that:

• I'm not that good at PS as you might think, so I'll have a hard time explaining some of the stuff
• There are some good guides and such out there from better PS users than me
• I tried to do some of it, but by the looks of it, that guide would have been 3x this one and I just dont have the time for such work

The things I DO have, I'll include in either the new guide or this one.. probably this one since it fits this one best..

yayyyy lol. i got this guide through google so i thought id sign up for the forums. i have problems with photoshop tho...dont even know how to use the brushes or anything. anyway i was doin the tutorial...n i got stuck when trying to erase a picture of beyonce i decided to use. but i got there eventually...n i added the fireworks image to the sig but it completely covered beyonce..so i was wondering how i could blend in beyonce with the background without it covering her. im confused.

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LightMagic wrote:

I made this from the Pic Iminent Posted



Shot at 1969-12-31

LightMagic wrote:

I'm into Star Trek as well as online games so I used your great tutorial to make a new sig for myself




Thanks again

Z-trooper

Zimmer wrote:

I honestly advise you veer away from cut-outs. Unless you are creating a special effect.

Zimmer wrote:

But a beginners guide doesn't have to contain actions that are not very nice in sigs.
You can still make a beginners guide without needing to show how to do a cutout.

TheEternalPessimist wrote:

Z-trooper wrote:

voodoosniper7 wrote:

i love this guide what do you think of this.
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w206 … psig-2.png
its my first PS sig. i used to have paint.net its really junkie

looks good.. really good glad that my guide could help you

TheEternalPessimist wrote:

Use the right shade of grey (#323232 for those who don't know), or make it transparent.

hmm dont know whats wrong with your screen but when I prt scr and sample the background color its #3838383 and his sig looks good to me, no visibles lines due to color difference here..

but please let me know if thats the case, it could be my comp thats having a problem - but I have tested it on all 3 of my comps, and no color difference.. all #383838

3000:1 contrast ratio = win, thats why it looks wrong, I just see more shades of grey then the average monitor.

and i got the color from print screen and checking the shade of grey in PS.

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rabee2789b wrote:

Why this is not a sticky anymore?

NooBesT wrote:

Z-trooper wrote:

NooBesT wrote:

For me it's #383838 at least...

BTW you should do the intermediate one.

thanks.. I might do that, but it'll be a while, because of my exams and the summer comming up. It takes a lot of time doing it.. but for intermediate/advanced some of the pr0's here have begun posting videos of themselves making sigs.. and like Ryan said, he might do a guide so I'm kind of thinking "why bother?"

Meh... Ryan fails.

• Hey good too see some new additions
• Good to see that people still use this guide!!