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Danman03

Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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Location: Oklahoma


PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:33 pm    Post subject: Confusion with creating a sig.... Reply with quote

So I am really new to photoshop. I am using CS5 on a macbook pro running snow leopard. I was reading through some of the tutorials about making a signature. I decided to give a try. Right off the bat I am confused. The poster of the sig threads said to open up a background. How exactly do I do that? Do I open up the image I want and make it the background layer or drag it to the background layer? I just started getting confused because when you open up a new document it already gives me a background layer and I don't know how to make my image I want the background layer. Any help or maybe a link?
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thehermit

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

As pretty much a golden rule leave the background in place and create a new layer above it, start working on the new layer, never work on the background (there are loads of times to break rules, but.....). You are correct, creating a new document does indeed already place a background layer into the canvas.
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Danman03

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, thank you. That makes sense. Now I just gotta figure everything else out lol.
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