Photoshop -- Sig HELP

[WeaponssBug]

I have seen a lot of pretty nice looking sigs on these boards, as well as others, and want to know what I can do to spice mine up a bit.


I have Photoshop 7.0
I want to make .jpeg sigs from screenshots, etc.


I have a....few....questions.


To start -- How would I cut part of an image, transfer it to another imagine, ie, on top of it.

Also, how can I generally improve image quality and sharpness, and also, where can I find some useful tool tips?

Sort of broad, yes, but anything else plus this I should know.

[cynicalscope]

Hey because I am such a nice dude I painted/shopped you a nice sig. I hope you like it.

http://www.geocities.com/jarottman/WBsig.gif

[Ginzue]

Um, that second question of yours is easily said buy not done, to cut out a picture get the lasso (or line lasso) tool and trace around the picture tne Ctrl C (copy) and Ctrl V (paste) it into your pictures, press Ctrl T to move and transform it.

[Deadlock]

work on the composition. let some things overlap and bring them in so theres not as much background. also, cant ever go wrong with contrast :D

[WeaponssBug]

Were you talking about the sig I made or the paint picture Ginzue made? hehe


So what does everyone think of my first run, first try Photoshop sig? =D Not much, but I like it.


Need a few pointers

Fonts! -- 3d fonts I see around here, where can I find? In addition, how do I make the edges of something glow a particular hue, the outter edges, but not the inners.

If anyone has some handy tools or fonts I might like, lemme know =D

[Airlift]

My first suggestion would be to use a more legible font.

To do image adjustments the old school way, select the layer you want to modify and go to image > adjust... > and choose how you want to make the adjustment.

Now forget what I just said, because one of the buttons on the bottom of the layers panel makes new adjustment layers, which truly-effing pwn. I don't have time to tell you how they work, but play around with all the buttons on the bottom of that panel, because every one of them is the greatness.

[Airlift]

glowing edges, layer stroking, color overlay, all these and more can be found on the blending options button which is the little F at the bottom of the Layers panel.

search for free fonts on google, there are a ton of them.

[WeaponssBug]

Oh wow, okay. Thanks a lot bro.

On the fonts thing, I tried that but got a bunch of pay sites ( for fonts? wtf this isnt pr0n ) and a bunch of really lame hard to read fonts, hence the best one I could find is there.

Any sites in particular?

Also -- anyone use Corel KPT Effects? I need...."assistance" in installing the program.

[Venom]

Try www.1001fonts.com thats where i got a few of mine.

[WeaponssBug]

Playin with photoshop, Hamtaro comes on. I love Hamtaro. How can you not like the intro. Kill me now please.

[WeaponssBug]

Also -- Photoshop mentioned something about the "scratch file" should be put onto a physical drive for better performance, instead of the default windows paging file.

I understand this, but should this be done AND how would I go about doing it. Didn't see any non graphics technical options anywhere.

[Airlift]

It depends on your setup, but it is recommended for performance reasons. Photoshop is a horse. Just for fun, I tried launching Photoshop while alt-tabbed out of planetside. Instant CTD when I switched back (I bet Photoshop ate memory that planetside wanted during startup). Then I went back and launched planetside again with photoshop open and I got both of them running at the same time, but neither one was happy about it. I shut it all down, restarted windows, and apologized to the machine ;)

[WeaponssBug]

How do I direct it towards my HD as a scratch then? =D Can't find it under preferences, mebbe Im just lookin in the wrong place.

Sig is lookin nice, thanks for the advice and the tips, so many intricasies =D

[Squeeky]

I suck at photoshop

[Dharkbayne]

You suck at everything Skweeky, lol :) JK

[dopey]

http://www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials.html

Thats one of the best site out there. For fonts I use fontfreak I forgot the url so google it. Also just play around with it. You wont get anything good out of it unless you use it.

[1024]

Check this out (http://www.spoono.com/tutorials/photoshop/) for a bunc hof tricks in photoshop