Avatar & Sig

RuadRauFlessa · Post by **RuadRauFlessa** » 31 Aug 2004, 16:00

Watcha think i've been doing for the past couple of months

Post by **wit_skapie** » 31 Aug 2004, 16:01

RuadRauFlessa wrote:Watcha think i've been doing for the past couple of months

Well done!

Kher-za · Post by **Kher-za** » 31 Aug 2004, 16:07

does any1 know what happened to Bondi? all his posts have been edited out.

jee · Post by **jee** » 31 Aug 2004, 16:08

wit_skapie wrote:
RuadRauFlessa wrote:
jee wrote:
wit_skapie wrote: Don't you miss your dragon?
very very much.... I feel almost nekkid without him *sigh*
Oooh interesting.
Sounds like we need to keep this dragon away

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:10

So Anakha, I hope you like this one.
I had fun making it.
Matching Avatar and Signature.

<IMG SRC="http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/421549220/0.jpg" BORDER=0>

<IMG SRC="http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/421549220/3.jpg" BORDER=0>
</A>

Here's a quick tutorial on what I did.
I did everything in Corel Photo-Paint

2) THE BACKGROUND
I took the background image and
cut a rectangle out so when I resized
it to scale it wouldn't distort.
Then obviously I resized it to 120x160p
I just inverted the colour to make it blue.

3) THE WIZARD
Used magic wand to select only the wizard
and then feathered the edges.
Resampled him to fit nicely in the centre
of the background.

4) THE TEXT
Just standard text with a drop shadow glow.

5) THE SIG
Pretty much the same here. Just a mission
to cut out the dragon (time consuming)
I gave the dragon a slight drop shadow glow.
The text I gave a plastic effect with a
drop shadow glow.

More tutorials coming soon.

jee · Post by **jee** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:27

Bio-Hazard, what does it look like if you take the shadow away from the font? It feels like I have a smudge on my lense when I look at it, and detracts from the rest of the sig.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:30

I don't understand. Are you talking about something I have done?

Oh ok Will work on it, thanks.

jee · Post by **jee** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:37

What I am asking about is the text - its a bit hazy and makes it difficult to read.. Is that due to the shadow glow or is that due to the background? I always have a problem with my text being very in your face or unreadable

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:41

Edited above in original post. Better? what do you think?

Post by **Anakha56** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:44

I love it. Its beutiful. Words just dont do it any justice thankx. Am going to have to buy you an e-beer.

jee · Post by **jee** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:44

Yes, brilliant! so what did you change?

Post by **Anakha56** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:48

Ummm me going to sound a bit of a newbie here but need to ask how do i use the sig?

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:49

I had the plastic effect but you were right. Basically it was just the lighting from the effect that was too high. Anyway I totally changed it to a beveled effect, made the glow white and smaller.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:52

Anakha56 wrote:Ummm me going to sound a bit of a newbie here but need to ask how do i use the sig?

go to www.photobucket.com and sign up.

basically you will browse for the file on your pc and upload it to photobuckets server. Then just copy the link it gives you and paste that link into your signature box in your profile.

jee · Post by **jee** » 01 Sep 2004, 07:54

Great thanks, I will knock on your postbox with my nexty try...

Post by **Anakha56** » 01 Sep 2004, 08:04

Again thank you its bril.

Bio-Hazard · Post by **Bio-Hazard** » 01 Sep 2004, 08:05

Anakha56 wrote:I love it. Its beutiful. Words just dont do it any justice thankx. Am going to have to buy you an e-beer.

Glad I could help. It definately is an improvement from your original.
see you all later.

Post by **wit_skapie** » 01 Sep 2004, 09:33

Bio-Hazard well done! That looks awesome! :biggrin:

Also thanks for the tutorial :biggrin:

Post by **wit_skapie** » 01 Sep 2004, 13:25

ssssssticky.... :biggrin:

Narkath · Post by **Narkath** » 01 Sep 2004, 22:33

wit_skapie, I like your source image, your positioning, and your mirror imaging between avi and sig, but I think the text is a bit too bold—the letters are “bleeding”. May I suggest not putting it in bold, and using a different font or font color? Or even a lighter color font with a dark stroke. The flames coming out of the mouth looks damn cool though.
Idea: I can’t remember exactly how to use GIMP but how about putting smaller text inside a semitransparent, white, rounded edge, stroked, box that is smaller than the surface area of your current text?

Post by **wit_skapie** » 02 Sep 2004, 09:29

Narkath wrote:wit_skapie, I like your source image, your positioning, and your mirror imaging between avi and sig, but I think the text is a bit too bold—the letters are “bleeding”. May I suggest not putting it in bold, and using a different font or font color? Or even a lighter color font with a dark stroke. The flames coming out of the mouth looks damn cool though.
Idea: I can’t remember exactly how to use GIMP but how about putting smaller text inside a semitransparent, white, rounded edge, stroked, box that is smaller than the surface area of your current text?

Thanx for the suggestion - i also thought the text was a bit "hard" compared to the rest - but it was late and i was sleepy

The idea about putting the text in a smaller surface sounds cool. I'm busy working through some GIMP tutorials, "Grokking the GIMP", they have some awesome stuff there.

I'll post Version 2.0 of the sig and avvie after the weekend - this time i'll spend a bit more time on it.

:biggrin:

btw Narkath - you've also got an awesome sig & avvie combo!

Hman · Post by **Hman** » 02 Sep 2004, 12:13

Okay, Supertwit wanted me to describe my sig & avvie, so here goes:

First off I use Photoshop 7, so I came across a wallpaer of a warcraft 3 night elf, while listening to Linkin park, and had this idea. So I simply made a new file to the sig size, then resized the wallpaper to fit the height. Then I copied and pasted it to the new file and moved it to the right hand side. I then filled the bckgrnd with solid black, and painted rough strokes in four colours. I then filled it again with black and faded it to darken the strokes. Next came the text and a 35mm lens flare in the left top corner. To finish I put a 2 pixel frame around the sig, and color dodged the joint between pic and bckgrnd. The avvie was a simple paste of the pic and the addition of a black frame. And there you have it.

Post by **wit_skapie** » 02 Sep 2004, 12:36

Looks really good!

SoulErazor · Post by **SoulErazor** » 02 Sep 2004, 13:17

yeah, that night elf is fine

Narkath · Post by **Narkath** » 02 Sep 2004, 21:51

thanks wit. when I have the time I think I should brush up on my GIMP-fu.
*Really* like it hman, especially the avvie.

You people do know that you have 120x160px to play with as far as avatars go, don't you?