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Stealthboy50
Joined: 04 Jul 2009
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 Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:00 pm Post subject: Very Quick, Easy and Nice Signature Background |
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This is a simple signature background tutorial, that can be used by anyone.
WARNING! DANGER! Follow my opacity changes if nothing else, because they are important.
Step 1. For a signature, make a document 800X800 with a black background. I know that you would want it about 200 X 400, but unless you do it like this, the effect is all wrong, and the colours do not come out right. You can crop it down later.
Step 2. Download this texture. This is a nice example texture, but this is where your creativity comes in, because you can select a tecture of your own, as well. Experiment and see what works.
Step 3. Open it and copy and paste it into your black document. Set the opacity of the layer to around 20-30%. I have mine as 20%.
Step 4. Flatten the image and duplicate the layer, setting the blending mode as normal. Now go into Filters > Pixelate > Mosaic and set the cell size to 35. Next, go into Filters > Sharpen > Sharpen. Repeat 3 times.
Now turn the layers opacity down to 65%. You should have something like this:
Note: This will vary slightly, but it should look about the same. Don't worry about the color as long as it's basically the same. Hurray!
Please note you can use a gradient with this or color it in to make all sorts of backgrounds. It looks really good with the rainbow gradient on overlay, trust me.
Step 5. Do the following steps. Unless I say to change something, keep everything as defaults.
Image > Mode > Index color (let it flatten the layers) > OK
Image > Mode > Color table > Black Body
Step 6. "THIS LOOKS AWFUL!" Correct. But, it's not finished yet, oh no. You should have some rubbish like this:
Now be warned, if you've got the opacity wrong the image may turn out wrong - you really should follow the steps above.
Step 7. Now take an area like this like this one highlighted:
Final Step. Crop the rest of the image away, rotate it 90 degrees, copy it and paste it into another document - and you have your background.
If you need any help whatsoever with this, please let me know. |
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Patrick
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Joined: 14 Feb 2003
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Location: Harbinger, NC, U.S.A.
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THEMASK
Joined: 18 Oct 2009
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ArtAngel
Joined: 03 Oct 2010
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thanks for the information.
that was a great one.
i will try it sooner.
thanks guys.
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K-touch
Joined: 17 Jan 2010
Posts: 166
Location: Sydney, Australia.
PS Version: CS, CS2, CS3, CS4
OS: Mac OS X, Win Xp
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| Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:04 am Post subject: Re: Very Quick, Easy and Nice Signature Background |
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Good One, Stealthboy50 !!!!
I'll try it too.. thanks
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SarahPerez10
Joined: 30 Aug 2010
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Awesome job!!!
Thanks, |
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esprintguy
Joined: 17 Feb 2012
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I think it may be too much effort just to obtain such a background, but it's good to know nonetheless. Thanks for sharing this. |
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scrowley1
Joined: 06 Aug 2012
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| Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:34 am Post subject: Can use it |
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I have had reasons to use this before, and its simple enough to follow the instructions. thanks.
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