[Resslerd]

This tutorial is for Photoshop only. I may make these same lessons in GIMP if I install it later on.

Text is one of the easiest, yet most important, parts of a sig. I see that a lot of people have been making horrible text, or no text at all. In this tutorial, you will make a sig that is NOT meant to be used, but the important thing is that you learn how to make better text.

Save multiple times during your sig making ALWAYS, just in case Photoshop freezes.

This tutorial will not tell you what I did in steps, but rather different methods used for making text.

Always limit your text to a few words at most, otherwise it will start to cover the whole sig. Make your text small for the same reason. Make it subtle, but noticeable so it doesn't detract interest from the render. Try to put the text in a boring part of the sig to liven it up a little.

To do this the easy but good looking way, you can make a black or white text and lower the opacity to make it blend.


Another easy way is to make the text color a little different than the surrounding sig, but still a color thats in the sig.


One of the best ways is to make a clipping mask with the text rather than a brush or those bars.


MAKE SURE YOU SAVE IT RIGHT NOW AS A .PSD

FOR THE FINAL STEP, LOOK AT SINX'S GFX LESSON NO. 1, or you will be missing an important step.

My final product after borders and lighting, which were SinX's two tutorials you needed to see:


YAY you are done with my fifth and final tutorial.
~Thank you.

You can PM me to request that I do a tutorial as well.

I would love to see outcomes if any of you do all of my tutorials

[SinX]

Hey Ress shoudn't a text go with the flow too????(Just wondering) anyway great outcome gotta try that myself XD

Argh! Lights too bright XD LoL

Haha Yoshi is like running for his life cause hes like being absorbed by the flow XD

Thnx for advertising too haha LoL

[wahnoob]

1 thing to say, nice Job!!

A question, how long did it take to make all these? must have taken lots of time

[SinX]

Well if you know what are the right things to do and have planned what to do then it would take less than an hour or an hour ^^

[wahnoob]

Originally Posted by SinX

Well if you know what are the right things to do and have planned what to do then it would take less than an hour or an hour ^^

lol, I meant the tutorials. ;D

[SinX]

Well Resslered put this up in more than an hour or maybe it was less than an hour since there was the uploading of these images just to let us people see the results and etc. ^^ I may be not Resslerd but tut making does really need time ^^

@Resslerd

Can I borrow some pics you used for your tuts?

[Resslerd]

It took me ~3 hours total to make all 5 tutorials. They were actually my first, so I had no idea what I was doing.

SinX, of course you can...as long as you aren't gonna rip my sig or something.

Also, the text doesn't have to go with the flow. Sometimes it just looks weird going with the flow, like this time it would have been odd to have text just in the middle of the sig.

[SinX]

Originally Posted by Resslerd

It took me ~3 hours total to make all 5 tutorials. They were actually my first, so I had no idea what I was doing.

SinX, of course you can...as long as you aren't gonna rip my sig or something.

Also, the text doesn't have to go with the flow. Sometimes it just looks weird going with the flow, like this time it would have been odd to have text just in the middle of the sig.

Thnx and dont worry no RIPPING here anyway yes I do agree with that but some sigs do look better going with the flow to 100% show the flow of sigs which gives the sig its natural effect.