I always see people with these super neat sig pics. And I know that usually someone like Alex or the Atog guy makes them.
I was wondering if anyone could give me some info of what programs they use to make them, and like some tips on making them once i get that program. I totally want to try to make my own lame ass sigpic. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
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Use photoshop for most of the image work. The key to good sigs is in being familiar with working in layers and getting those layers to work the way you want them to. Great sig pictures can be made just by lowering the opacity of a few layers and dropping some text in. For fading images into one-another, learn about layer masks. There are a million ways to produce the same effect in photoshop. Often you will find one way that you just can do faster, or gets the results you want. Play in photoshop frequently, and try out new things. Good-Tutorials.com is an awesome site, as a lot of the tutorials there are pretty much pointless, but will teach you about using certain tools (working with vectors, for example). My sig, for example, is (I believe) 8 images, with the only "real" photomanipulation being the replacement of the Fight Club Soap with the Morphling. Overall, I believe it is probably about 20 or so layers, text on seperate layers, the fishnets on a layer, Edward Norton on a layer, the morphling, a misc. layer to clean up the hand around the morphling, the lips layer, a few grunge layers (I believe 3 or 4), a background layer and a few other fine-tuning layers (for color, etc). Each of these is set to different modes (overlay, etc) and almost all of them are masked so that I can get the blending the way I wanted it, etc. Overall, its pretty darn simple, but merges to form something that doesnt look too bad.
Your best bet, as long as you know how, is to use photoshop to produce the highest quality things. There's a reason Photoshop is the industry's ONLY image creating/editing program.
I don't have photoshop... I just have a bunch of photoshop knockoffs. Granted, they're not all that bad (the Roxio Photo Suite, the Microsoft software I used to make my original sig pic, and the photo software I got with my scanner... don't remember the product name... are all really simple and are rather forgiving if you've never used a photoediting program before) and are exponentially cheaper than Photoshop (assuming you buy your products).
MS Paint is secret tech. You just have to worry about having your images totally distorted and messed up if you decide to save them outside of the .bmp file format. If you don't have the time to learn a new program, the money to buy a new program, or the patience to go about trial-and-error with a new program, all you need is a steady hand and MS Paint can be a king among photo-edit/creating software.
Anyway, I know I'm not king of making images on the computer like Tog or Alex (all my experience is trial, error, and limited amounts of practice), but that's my advice on making your own images for stuff.
It's illegal if you don't purchase it yourself. The software itself isn't illegal, pirating it off the internet is.
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Adobe Photoshop is what just about everybody uses I would think. If you want some tips on just random things for signatures and what not you can go here
I was wondering if anyone could give me some info of what programs they use to make them, and like some tips on making them once i get that program. I totally want to try to make my own lame ass sigpic. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Rasputina - A Quitter
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=2752
he proves that you don't need fancy programs to do quality work.
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Cool stuff here.
Heh, that's pretty good.
I just used Photoshop to make mine.
I don't have photoshop... I just have a bunch of photoshop knockoffs. Granted, they're not all that bad (the Roxio Photo Suite, the Microsoft software I used to make my original sig pic, and the photo software I got with my scanner... don't remember the product name... are all really simple and are rather forgiving if you've never used a photoediting program before) and are exponentially cheaper than Photoshop (assuming you buy your products).
MS Paint is secret tech. You just have to worry about having your images totally distorted and messed up if you decide to save them outside of the .bmp file format. If you don't have the time to learn a new program, the money to buy a new program, or the patience to go about trial-and-error with a new program, all you need is a steady hand and MS Paint can be a king among photo-edit/creating software.
Anyway, I know I'm not king of making images on the computer like Tog or Alex (all my experience is trial, error, and limited amounts of practice), but that's my advice on making your own images for stuff.
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It also comes with an animation editor so I did my avatar there, too.
MS Paint: For cropping
JASC Paint Shop Pro: Blending, ect..
JASC Animation Shop: Animating, transperency
It's complicated, but you get used to it.
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It's a freeware program that you can use to make animated .gif files...
I used to use that until I bought something better...
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