I hate GIF compression.

that. is. awesome!!!

Mr. J would be proud.

Also, Protip: If you put in < center > image url < /center >, it centers your sig.

Nice man. You're getting better Espio keep at it. I'm still learning the ropes myself. Have to explore everything Photoshop has to offer.

@ AwesomeTaco good to know, thanks.




Thanks so much man, very appreciated:) I need to get Photoshop soon, I've been using its ghetto cousin a.ka. Power Point

Your sigs are pretty amazing, your Freddy one (believe it or not lol) had one of my favorite background designs, it was simple yet awesome.

I also need to learn how to do my own cut-outs, it'll give me a lot more options.

You could also get Gimp. It's not as good as Photoshop but MUCH better then Power Point. It's free too.

Squares are nice.


Yuck.
I hate doing cut-outs. Especially when the backdrop isn't one solid color.
I suggest searching for .png's instead, it will save chunks of time.

I'm not sure how in the world you use PowerPoint for sig making, but if Photoshop is not an option, get GIMP.


Hard to believe.

Hard to believe.

lol agreed.

yeah i got into it for real like starting summer

i used to play around with it way before but never really got serious

And i mean i believe i have gotten better but still i have lots to learn

maybe one day i will get photoshop

but for now i wit for the next version of gimp

This is something I just made as a joke but turns out that I will be using it for a while, considering that I hardly want to put any effort in signatures.

I Love this sig awesometaco. Its just freakin awesome.

Thanks!

I just randomly made this today fuckin around in photoshop. Its like Kanye sang flashing lights to Mileena.

The absolute best, and quickest way to do a cutout is to find a render with a solid colored background, doesn't matter what color it is. As long as the background is a different color than the image, for example,


This image would not work, since the background is too close of a color to the render:




Once you've found a render on a solid (or mostly solid) color background, you can use the "Magic Eraser Tool" in Photoshop to easily clean out the background. You might need to duplicate the render on your signature and change blending options if it doesn't cut out the render perfectly. If you're cutting out an image that doesn't have a solid color background, it's good to usually start with the "Magic Eraser Tool" to see how much you can get rid of. If you're still left with a lot of excess material, use either a path tool to outline the render and remove it from the remainder of the image, or use a mask on the render and paint over the excess material with black to eliminate it. You can also use the "Quick Selection" tool followed by the refine edge option. With the refine edge option you can change the settings to get rid of excess selections or even add to the selections depending on which way you slide the various parameters. Whenever a render doesn't get cutout 100% the way you want, duplicating the layer and changing the blending options will hide the minor imperfections such as hair jaggies (very common problem). I'm still trying to get a lot better at rendering, but I think I'm better at rendering than I am at sig making. If you're using GIMP, I pretty sure there isn't a magic eraser tool though, so the path tool is the best method of rendering on GIMP.

I still need to experiment with new styles and such.

Wow MINION! Those are super kick ass! That's the reason why you're still my favorite sig maker on here! I wish I could do something at least half as good!

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT. Kicked all the sigs I've made right in the siggy ass

A new style I'm experimenting with. What do you guys think?

@AwesomeTaco:

That Ermac sig is pretty good! I like the style of it.

@Cagedrage:

I like the experimentation of the second one with Robin and I like the feel that the first one has.

I've got to start experimenting with my own style. I've been playing around with distortion filters and blurs along with smudging, so we'll see what I can eventually create. Here's something I just made:



Here's another one:

nice stuff