MAKING A SIGN - This is a tut for begginers:

SCARFACE · 02-10-2005, 03:14 AM

This is a tut for begginers:
I will show you how to make a simple signature for anybody to understand easily and for any noob to beggin making signatures.

Step 1.-: save this image to you hardrive

Step 2.-: Open photoshop. *note* If you don't have photoshop Forget about the whole tut thing and go to our request section ad request one from our designers lol.

Step 3.-:Now that you have your image save, open a new document size 350x120 trasparent background.

Step 4.-: Now Go to :Filter: then go to :Render: and finally click on :clouds:. you shoulw have this image now.

Step 4.-:lets change the color of the image by pressing CTRL+U it will briing you to the HUE/SATURATION screen click on COLORIZE and type in these settings HUE 189 SATURATION 40 and hit OK.
Step 5.-:Create a new layer and name it gridlines or leave it as is and go to :EDIT: then scroll to :FILL: and it with this pattern

once fill change the oppacity of the gridlnes to 12 % or whatever you feel looks good.
Step 6.-: Now make a new layer and then go and Grab your marque tool located on this image here

and do a selection like so:

now grab your bucket tool and fill it with color white:

now double click your new selected layer and do a 1 pix black stroke to it and click ok.

Finally deselect the layer by going to :Select: and then scroll down to

eselect: and now change the layer to :OVERLAY: and oppacity to 50%.

Now it's time for the pic to come in place
Step 7.-: Open the Spawn picture and drag it in the sig document and place it somewhere like so:

Step 8.-: Now it's time for the font to come in place click on your Font type tool and select any font you want i used the font :Impact: or yu can use any font you like your choice and type in the name which you want to name your sig i just name it Spawn.
Now double click your font and click ON :COLOR OVERLAY: and use this color settings :BAD6FE: and then click on :STROKE: and do a 1pix black stroke to it so that the font will have nice lookin black stroke. now go to :Bevel and Emboss: and use this settings:

finally click on drop shadow and hit OK.

Step 9.-: For the fianl touch put a stroke :Border: and you will be set to go, if you did this whole tut right you will have something like so, Finish Product:

SCARFACE · 02-16-2005, 03:43 PM

Has this tutorial helped anyone at all ? I need some feed back if possible please. I have several more tutorials on how to create frames, boarders, special efects, fonts, colors, animations, etc. but I need to know if anyone from the Chop Shop group or anyone that has Photoshop is even interested in checking them out cuz I sure don't want to waist my time trying to help if it's not wanted.

SCARFACE · 02-16-2005, 03:48 PM

by the way, I did it last year and I'm considering doing it again this year but not just yet. I'm talking about taking requestes for signatures for anyone from the forum that needs one or wants one, I start with the people that don't have one first using their own car pics or any other pics they want, coming soon, so be on the look out for that...

oh! I notice we have many more sign designers now compare to last year, depending on the demand for signs maybe they can also help out if they have the time of course.

peace!

vshayes · 02-17-2005, 12:54 PM

your pretty good at it.

I had tim make me one, and then I lost it!!!

mdvaldosta · 02-17-2005, 01:03 PM

Since you took the time to write this, I took the time to sticky it.

SCARFACE · 02-17-2005, 07:10 PM

Thanks! by the way you think the admin would consider creating a new sections specifictly for Signs, Avatars, Etc. --- Sign making is different from Chop shop, just a suguestion.

mdvaldosta · 02-17-2005, 07:50 PM

no I doubt it

dan · 03-21-2005, 01:36 AM

nice one man, thanks

dc_mann8 · 03-21-2005, 01:46 AM

hey it helped me im alright with pohtoshop and im gonna try some signs. but when u made my sign, u did the trick with the headlights and made it a gif? how can i learn to do that i wanna make smoke come from the nostrils of the horse

SCARFACE · 03-21-2005, 06:02 PM

I used a program that comes with photoshop called image ready. Depending on how many requests I get for that I'll make a tutorial to show you how to do those special FX's. I usually make the sign JPG when I don't put animation and GIF when they do have animation.