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Old 2003-04-16, 04:42 AM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Photoshop -- Sig HELP


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.
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Old 2003-04-16, 07:00 AM   [Ignore Me] #2
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Hey because I am such a nice dude I painted/shopped you a nice sig. I hope you like it.

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Old 2003-04-16, 09:54 AM   [Ignore Me] #3
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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.
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Old 2003-04-16, 02:08 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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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
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Old 2003-04-16, 03:10 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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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
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Old 2003-04-16, 03:11 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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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.
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Old 2003-04-16, 03:12 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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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.
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Old 2003-04-16, 03:22 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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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.
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Old 2003-04-16, 03:28 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Try www.1001fonts.com thats where i got a few of mine.
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Old 2003-04-16, 03:30 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Playin with photoshop, Hamtaro comes on. I love Hamtaro. How can you not like the intro. Kill me now please.
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Old 2003-04-16, 04:28 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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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.
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Old 2003-04-16, 07:12 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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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
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Old 2003-04-16, 07:18 PM   [Ignore Me] #13
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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
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Old 2003-04-16, 07:20 PM   [Ignore Me] #14
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I suck at photoshop
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Old 2003-04-16, 09:11 PM   [Ignore Me] #15
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You suck at everything Skweeky, lol JK
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