Please teach me how to make sigs~~!

• Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-17 04:27
  Can someone please teach me how to make sigs? I don't have anything fancy, so I may have to use some of them free programs :gloom:. Though I have no idea where to start:what:. So I have come to search to study under a master of the Arts of the Sog :thumb:BELIEVE IT~~!
• Frawmus wrote on 2010-04-17 04:38
  Google GIMP
  Become Familiar with it
  Make a pictuce/sig a decent pixel size
  Upload it to photobucket/other sites
  copy img code into signature.
  BAM
  Got yourself a sig :D
  
  Thats the simple way. I don't really know the complex way
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-17 04:41
  I was looking for something more detailed, :oops:sir~~. Though ty that clarifies somewhat~ish@_@~~:D.
• Fumy wrote on 2010-04-17 04:43
  Read some GIMP tuts and learn how to use GIMP :3 I really can't explain what you gotta do to make a Sig cuz theres so many ways to make a sig (Like c4d)
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-17 04:43
  On a sidenote~~, I may be dumb, so I've been told, but downloading GIMP is kinda complicated D:~~.
• Fumy wrote on 2010-04-17 04:48
  Download GTK+ and GIMP installers for Windows from SourceForge.net for XP SP2/SP3 Vista and 7
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-17 04:49
  Tyy :D~~!
• Taycat wrote on 2010-04-17 06:45
  Also, NEVER use a bad quality image.
  
  If the stock isn't good, don't use it.
  
  If it's jpeg, NEVER use it.
  
  PNG only.
  
  Also, when you save on GIMP to load up and edit later, you put .xcf and .png for when you're done.
  
  Get it?
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-17 07:15
  kinda, i got a background now, but I need something to put there D:~~.
  EDIT: Someone gimme images for this

  [Image: http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/rr82/kev_619_29/Background1.png]

  
  
  Also,is it good for a first time~~?
• Chiri wrote on 2010-04-17 07:36
  It'll be more personalized if you think of something you wanna put there yourself and then make it all fit together xP
  Making a sig just to have one is no fun!
  
  A good resource for making different things tends to be deviantart.... You can poke around this link:
  deviantART: where ART meets application!
  
  Though most designers use Photoshop and not GIMP [photoshop is not as free as GIMP >.>] I think the tutorials are mostly translatable between programs.
• Paul wrote on 2010-04-17 07:51
  I can't really say what you should use with that, I'm horrible with sigs, no skill at all. But from what I've seen, it's usually find the main picture first then work on the background to blend in, although you could do it that way too i guess...
  
  I don't exactly know what I would put in that picture, but if you find one, to add on to what Xiyamae said, you should learn how to render images, its very helpful. Basically, taking the image you want out of the picture you need with no background and just the picture. Renders are always in PNG format. Not sure what tool you'd use on GIMP but PS its the pen tool. Here's 3 renders I did myself a while back, wouldn't say they're excellent but they're doable.
  
  They're fairly big so I'm not posting the image themselves.
  
  http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb40/Toupaulthao/TarlachHuskyExpress.png
  http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb40/Toupaulthao/RuairiHuskyExpress.png
  http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb40/Toupaulthao/MariHuskyExpress.png
  
  Although I'm not saying you should use them in the background you've made/obtained.
  
  Plenty of sites you can find too, although all the decent ones usually require registering.
• Cannibal wrote on 2010-04-17 08:01
  If you get bored with GIMP, let me suggest Paint.NET and PhotoScape. I've used neither of them, but a friend of mine recommended them to me before I got my Photoshop.
  
  Also, I'm not sure if it'd been said yet, but I think Adobe offers a free 30-day-trial of Photoshop, which would be useful. You should check their website.
• Taycat wrote on 2010-04-17 14:17
  To what Paul was saying, the equivilant of the pen tool on Photoshop is the Wand tool in GIMP.
  
  If you want, I can make a small signature tutorial that will help.
  
  Also, Deviantart is where you want to search for brushes. GIMP now can use any brush format, so don't worry about that.
  
  Also, the site I use for wonderful stocks is:
  
  Planet Renders v4
  
  They also have a forum so if you can't find a particular stock, you can request for somebody to render it for you.
• Byte wrote on 2010-04-17 14:22

  Quote from Xiyamae;6889:

  Also, NEVER use a bad quality image.
  
  If the stock isn't good, don't use it.
  
  If it's jpeg, NEVER use it.
  
  PNG only.
  
  Also, when you save on GIMP to load up and edit later, you put .xcf and .png for when you're done.
  
  Get it?

  
  
  Erm... you can use a Jpeg, there's no major difference between PNG and JPEG.
• Fumy wrote on 2010-04-17 14:43

  Quote from Knocturn;7064:

  Erm... you can use a Jpeg, there's no major difference between PNG and JPEG.

  
  
  PNG often has better quality