Signature Help/Tutorials

Originally posted by ThePittman
Never done it that way, I was refering to the Layer Style Stroke, didn't know that there was that other stroke. 🙂 "Now I know and knowing is half the battle" 😄

Indeed.

Kinda funny, I’ve been using PS for years and you get in a habit of doing thing a certain way and then you find an easier way of doing something or a tool that you never knew of. Guess I’m tool old school, been using PS since PS 4, guess I’m just getting set in my ways and you “young wiper snappers” (waves cane) just got to show me up. 😛

I've had PS for...5 years now, and I only just learned about that about 6 months ago. I used to make a new layer, fill with white, set to fill to 0%, and do the stroke that way 😛

Originally posted by quickshot
im looking for a bit of help on making a tut containing sig tips and tricks for begginers i've got a couple of tips (getting an image under 30kb,Creating scanlines,good looking borders etc) and could do with some more

I think that's a really cool idea...how about the basics of blending an image, how to place your image so you don't have too much empty space, and the basics of text?

great lana i'm putting text and blending renders in part 2, i've finished part 1 which talks about borders and starts the section on improving renders

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/2526/tutcopydo4.jpg

bear in mind this is my first tut

Not bad 👆 image quality's kinda crap, but tutorials can end up being quite huge if you do high-quality.

Put in something about Save For Web, I have to tell everyone about that 😛

In responce to the borders, I just get the rectangle tool, draw where I want the border right click and do the stroke thing, two secs

Originally posted by Lana
Put in something about Save For Web, I have to tell everyone about that 😛

Originally posted by Barker
You and you overexaggeration. sly

It's really not much of one.

Originally posted by Grand_Moff_Gav
In responce to the borders, I just get the rectangle tool, draw where I want the border right click and do the stroke thing, two secs

New Layer, Select All, Edit > Stroke is much faster.

Originally posted by Lana
It's really not much of one.

There's 6 Billion people in the world. Those 5,999,999,899 that you don't tell, and out of the 100,000 here, you tell maybe 20.

20/6,000,000,000

😐

👆 good analysis

here the second in my tutorials the third will deal with backgrounds and saving a file

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/5464/tutpart2tx6.jpg

Is there any other way to get a sig under 30kb on PSP than having to lower the compression? And how do you do it with a .png and .gif?

PNGs you can't lower compression on.

For GIFs, you need to lower the number of colors.

And nope, the only way you can lower filesize is to lower the quality and compress it more.

Originally posted by Lana
[B]PNGs you can't lower compression on.

Originally posted by steverules
😕 You can lower compression on .PNG files.

Only by making it a 8 color PNG, otherwise you can't. It's a lossless filetype.

Originally posted by Lana
Only by making it a 8 color PNG, otherwise you can't. It's a lossless filetype.

PNG compression is lossless, meaning that it will look the same regardless of compression level.

There are a few ways to lower the size of a .PNG file. Not just by changing it to an 8-bit indexed palette, like a .gif.

What the hell program is that in?

And compressing something will cause it to lose quality. It's what it does.

Originally posted by Lana
What the hell program is that in?

And compressing something will cause it to lose quality. It's what it does.

The program is called GIMP, it is free to download. You can also use PNGcrush, it is free as well.

'For image editing, either professional or otherwise, PNG provides a useful format for the storage of intermediate stages of editing. Since PNG's compression is fully lossless--and since it supports up to 48-bit truecolor or 16-bit grayscale--saving, restoring and re-saving an image will not degrade its quality, unlike standard JPEG (even at its highest quality settings).'

If you want take a look at the complete page look here. That might help you out a bit.

I'm having trouble with my PS, whenever I'm going to add my text, it wont show up, I have to save it first then add it.

any help with this problem please.

Originally posted by Thorinn
I'm having trouble with my PS, whenever I'm going to add my text, it wont show up, I have to save it first then add it.

any help with this problem please.