Do you have a sig maker?

[Bre'Cheye]

That's another of my hobbies and I'm always interested in seeing other's work.

[Jack Atlas]

AlterGate makes most of the sigs and graphics for our page. I'll have to ask the other members later to ask if they have any photoshop skills; I think Dathron from the Shadow Ninjas and EdElric have some talent in that area.

[Bre'Cheye]

I'll have to get with AlterGate to see what programs he uses to see if he uses what I have. It's always good to have added knowledge.

[EdElric]

I'm ok with photoshop. I use adobe photoshop cs3 and older versions of illustrator and imageready.

[Jack Atlas]

Knew it ;D

[Bre'Cheye]

I use Picassa3 and Gimp and Printshop 12. Each one has different things which sometimes a sig will require. With the Printshop 12, I am able to by hand, closely crop an image from another image then place it on still yet something else. An example of that would be (using a RL picture for the background):



or



With Gimp, I can add textures to the photo or "smear" areas or copy an area:

(added more flowers here and there)



or

(I removed her wings and added fern looking marks here and there)



(added more ripples to the water)


With the Picasa3, I like using that for the Fonts and placement of them:

(notice how it looks like his name is carved in his staff?)

[Jack Atlas]

*gasp* Those look superb! They're very regal-esque.

[AlterGate]

Nice job Bre ;D

I use an old version of photoshop but it still holds up well. In order to take out images to use as macros to put onto backgrounds I use the mask tool to make my selections like so:

Example 1: Original Image



I then make the mask using the mask button in photoshop and paint in my selection.

Example 2:



After that's done, I invert my selection to turn and it's now free to drop into any background like so.

Example 3:





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I used to make sigs on Pojo (this was where I first met Jack lol) Here are some works I made on that site:

Gundam 00 playmat (the background was a vectorized screencap and the two other layer elements were custom vectorized):


An old sig I made for StardustKnight:


One of my old sigs:


A sig I made for Varg the Legend

[Bre'Cheye]

Thank you Mr. Atlas

I'll have to try the masking to see if that's quicker than how I had been cropping. The Gimp program has a lot of features and I really haven't taken the time to try them all out. I guess a person gets comfortable with certain things from certain programs and never takes the time to see what else is there.