John Ceta

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Awesome tutorial.

Snootch

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Looks good. Some suggestions:

1- Choose your font style/bevel/color wisely. Even though you might like a particular font, it may look like crap on a sig with a certain background.

2- When inserting a car into a particular background, the car might seem to stick out. This is probably because the reflection on the object is different than the background's color. For example, if you have a pic of your sweet Camaro which was taken in Virginia on a January morning, and stick it into a background of the desert highway in Nevada in the late afternoon, the car will have a bright, maybe bluish cast to it, while the desert background will have a yellow, orangish cast to it. The fix is simple; Go to Image>Adjustments>Photo Filter. Here you can add a 20-30% warm filter to the Camaro, and it will blend in better with the desert background.

3- Borders- Sometimes a border can help with a sig looking "plain". Simply create a new layer by selecting Layer>New layer. Then select the entire layer by going to Select>All. Next create the border by selecting Image>Stroke. Set the thickness of the border stroke, (usually I use 6-8 pixels) then choose the color. Hit "OK" then Select>Deselect to remove the selected border. Sometimes the border can be blurred by adding a Gaussian Blur to the border's layer.

FireSilverLullaby

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Thanks alot snootch those were some good tips. I couldnt find the photo filter, but i used the color balance and made the windows a little more transparent.

And i added a border, and got a new font and location, but im still not real sure on what font to use or where to put it.

Snootch

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That looks pretty good. I dont think I would of added the other pic of the back of the car on the left side though. Sometimes you want to add a little bit of something else that ties in the background theme or your screen name into the sig. For instance... when I saw your screen name "Black Demon" I instantly thought of the baddest *** demon I have seen in a movie- The "Lord of Darkness" in the 1985 movie "legend" with Tom Cruise. So I buzzed over to Google Images, and found a pic of an action figure. I cut him out, threw him in there, and removed some saturation, added a bit of red photo filter to him and put him on the left. I selected your car using the polygonal lasso tool and threw a yellow and orange filter on it so it blended into the background, then sharpened it using the unsharp mask filter. Then I found a good looking gothic-demon looking font over at 1001fonts.com, and put a inner red glow, an outer pale yellow glow on it using the Layer>Layer styles window. Heres the result:



Really all you need to do is play around in PS for a while, seeing what all the options do for you. BTW, the photo filter isn't in the "Filters" section, its under Image, then Adjustments- near the bottom. Youv'e got a hell of a good start, and what you've done looks great. Just play around with settings, and find a few things that can really make your art "pop". Good luck....

FireSilverLullaby

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Wow that looks amazing snootch. I just took some of your ideas and made a few more with ghost rider in it.





And i have an old version of photoshop i think its the 7.0 one thats almos 5 years old, so i dont think mine has the photo filter

jims73z

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Thanks for the tutorial
worked great in GIMP

monaro

Thanks for the cool lesson

Here's my Monaro pic's

Please if you have some comments to add just tell




And this is lowed

2000Hawk

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DAMN im pissed this thing is frustrating the hell out of me. Everytime i try making one its like things dont go like i read it.
-Joel

LILWS6

thanks this helped me make my sig pic. thumbs UP

pr95blackbird

sig test

2000Hawk

iTrader: (5)

My problem is in the beginning everytime i click to apply the transition nothing happens, and even when i hold the shift the photo doesn't stay in proportion. It sucks because i can't even get a pic of my car to transition into a 500x150
-Joel

99FormulaM6

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im having trouble getting one pic to fade into the other. im using PS7, and I try to erase one layer but its messing up the whole thing when I try and do it.

porksoda

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Make this thread a Sticky very worthy!!!

EAT-N-AIR

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just curious how do you even make the images big for threads like how you did? whenever I try to post photos in a thread they come up very small and you have to click to make larger