Sig

[Fatal TurnTable]

hey i was wondering if anyone with photoshop could help me as far as a sig goes.
i have Gimp and picasa not sure if it can be done in either of those.
i really know very little about this though so any help is appreciated.

[Assassin 10k]

I've got photoshop but I'm a lot better with gimp what kind of sig did you have in mind?

[Fatal TurnTable]

Just a forum sig similar to yours,
how do you go about doing that in gimp?

[Assassin 10k]

I first learned Gimp from some of the guys at Podtacular. Watched a lot of tutorials. The thing with Gimp is the text options are really limited and most don't blend well with the sig. Heres a link to a pretty helpful tut. http://podtacular.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19865&highlight=tut

[Fatal TurnTable]

you made yours in gimp?

[Assassin 10k]

No I made mine in photoshop. I've only had photoshop for a couple of days so I'm still kind of getting the hang of it. Oh yeah if you need good renders check out www.planetrenders.com. If you want I can throw something together for you.

[Fatal TurnTable]

I wouldn't feel right using someone else's i will do my best to figure this out.
the resources you gave me are helping alot.

[Fatal TurnTable]

my very first sig!
i followed a tut to an extent but started to get the hang of it and went off on my own.
this program is suprisingly like photoshop how does it manage to be free?


http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/fatalbrainfreeze/sig2.jpg

[guywholovesrice]

optimus is staring at me with his glowing blue eyes O.O

and what program is it, i'm down with anything at the moment besides paint because i forgot to install photoshop onto my computer

[Fatal TurnTable]

Gimp,
its a free download.
if you want i can send yo ulinks to a bunch of tutorials too.

[Kinjutsumaru]

Not bad for your first sig.

[Fatal TurnTable]

Just made another one, not much better but this one i rendered the image myself as well.

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s212/fatalbrainfreeze/mech.gif

any criticisms or advice is welcome :popcorn:

[Assassin 10k]

Very nice! Looks way better then my first attempt! I love Gimp its so much easier to use than photoshop, only reason I switched to photoshop is I plan on going to college to become a graphic design artist so I figured I'd get a head start. Only tip I would offer is when you place your render. Use the smudge tool, set the opacity fairly low and go around the outside of your render lightly. It helps blend your render into the background. Other than that great job it only gets easier from here on out.

[Fatal TurnTable]

Thanks alot, if you havn't seen it yet i posted an even more recent one in another part of the forums!

[guywholovesrice]

yes please

[Fatal TurnTable]

Yes please?
what is wrong with you rice man!

[guywholovesrice]

oh hahaha i didn't read the comments on page 2 >_< i was responding to the other commenting about giving me the links to gimp and the tutorials

[Fatal TurnTable]

first, the download:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

next, the tutorial(s) for making sigs:

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Full-Tech-Sig-Tut-1790-1.html

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Full-Sig-Tut-1283-1.html

http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/topic/Full-Sig-Tut-7768-1.html

next, render site, join it:
http://planetrenders.net/

last, to get fonts and brushes:

fonts-
how to download:

http://www.1001fonts.com/popup.html?q=install

site:

http://www.dafont.com/

YOU MUST RESTART GIMP IN ORDER FOR THE NEW TEXT TO POP UP

BRUSHES~ you dont need them tho-
but it sure helps

http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/applications/gimpbrushes/

How to put the brushes in gimp, first dowload them, then open the brush, and WinRaR should come up, extract the brush files to the following in this order:

1. click c drive

2. click program files

3. click common files

4. click GTK

5. click Gimp 2.0

5. click Share

6. click gimp

7. click 2.0

8. click brushes

9. you should have extracted them to c drive+ program files+common files+ GTK+ Gimp 2.0+ Share+ Gimp+ 2.0 + brushes

there ya go, everything you need to get started, found this info from threads over at podtacular.
if you need anything else let me know.

[guywholovesrice]

mm thanks man, i'm gonna try to make some kickass cod4 and rb6 sigs with this :)

[guywholovesrice]

actually for the extracting it went a bit different for me, instead of winrar it went to a compressed folder so i extracted all the files, then i tried to manually transfer them but after i clicked GTK there was only a 2.0 folder and inside the 2.0 folder theres only a themes folder

edit: nevermind i got it now its just in a different folder

[guywholovesrice]

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r294/guywholovesrice/Cod4Sig1.jpg?t=1200015851

my new one =)

[Assassin 10k]

I've got a Mac so I had a hell of a time finding Tutorials and nice looking text to import. Photoshop has been a godsend for me.