Advanced signature tutorial for gimp users

[noobie]

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/tut1-2.jpg
http://www.signaturebar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2992
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/tut2-2.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/tut3-2.jpg
http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/applications/gimpbrushes/?order=9&alltime=yes
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/tut4-2.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/tut5-1.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/tut6.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/tut7.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/tut8.jpg
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/sigtutorial.png

[Ares]

Again thanx noobie

[firechameleon]

nice tut noobie.... ty...... :)

[noobie]

No problemo...dont forget, if you follow it and get a cool sig, then post it in here :D
Makes it all worthwhile lol...making tutorials can grate on me sometimes lol, take ages and i love seeing the results :D:D

[firechameleon]

noobie, i really like the brushes u used. could u post their links........... :)

[noobie]

Im not too sure on the brush i used on this one, in my gimp,. its called something daft like ... d3672 or somethying like that....but i forgot what it was called when i downloaded it from deviantart...ive tried searching for it again, but no luck, ill have another look now and see what i can find :D

[noobie]

Ooo, i found it, the brush set i used was

http://galnexus.deviantart.com/art/Destiny952-Brush-Set-118-52601461

And in gimp it comes up as D118

I also love these brush sets too, theyre very similar to the one above

http://getfirefox.deviantart.com/art/Radon-Brushes-48713534

http://iceytina.deviantart.com/art/GIMP-Brushes-Wall-Grunge-27840192

http://project-gimpbc.deviantart.com/art/Keep-Dreaming-Ultimate-Vol-2-32942558

http://droz928.deviantart.com/art/Bash-Brush-Set-12-32257240

http://project-gimpbc.deviantart.com/art/Xsel04-Abstract-2-0-37294203

My fav deffo has to be the top one though, as theres tons of them in that set, so you can use them for a lot of the sigs you do, without them looking too much like the same.

[firechameleon]

tyyw noobie......... :D

[Ares]

Cheers for the cool brushes noobie

[noobie]

No probs :D

[Ares]

Heres one i made using the tut
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa17/The_Assaultr/PrinceOfPersiasig-1.png

And cheers for it. And i was wondering if you could give me some links for the txt you use on some of your sigs plz.

[noobie]

ooo nice one...thats looks ace!!
I get all my fonts from http://www.dafont.com
Or do you mean links to specific fonts i use, if so then show me a sig with the font on and ill get ya the link to it :D:D

[noobie]

Was the tut easy to follow, or could i have made it eaier somehow?

[Ares]

Yer it was ok, at the start i was wondering wat the dropper was but i remembered. I felt like a dumb*** lol

[noobie]

Haha, brain block lol, i get that all the time lol

[tradedemon]

thats a really cool tut noobie..

[noobie]

Thank you :D

[firechameleon]

my try........ :)

http://www.signaturebar.com/uploads/images/17170.png (http://www.signaturebar.com/)

[Ares]

very nice :D , how long did it take you?

[noobie]

ooo brill FC, nice one

I think following tutorials can take ages sometimes, but once you get to grips with it and do a lot of the same style, it gets a lot quicker

[firechameleon]

ty.......... :D it took me around half an hour...... if u consider the time it took to redo the whole thing after my gimp crashed............ :)

[lokifeyson]

gimp and photoshop are pretty similar, i think this tut could even help people with photoshop! good job noobie!
Nice sigs everyone! :D

[noobie]

thanking youuuuu :D

[fiqe]

were do u put the downloaded brushes?

[fiqe]

aaah now i get it....

[lokifeyson]

lol, yea the site probably had instructions

[Beast]

Here's my result:
http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x199/Krimson_Beast/Signatures/assasinsig.png

[Ares]

I like the BG and the render, i just dont like the text sorry.

[lokifeyson]

same here, looks good though! :D

[Beast]

Nah, don't worry. I couldn't find a good text to fit. It's the Iced Earth font and I wanted to try it out.

[noobie]

Thats really good, maybe the text would look better in black.
But an ace sig :D Thanks for posting the outcome :D

[Storm]

one thing i cant do on that sig was make the background color black i did it once but lost the pic can you plz tell me how to make it black plz noobie or anyone

[Storm]

and also how do i put my new brushes that i download into gimp so i can use them

[fiqe]

put the black backround behind the render....

[Storm]

ok i just figured that out but what about my second quistion?

[chews]

Storm,heres your answer to your 2nd question.
1.Download your brushes using by unzipping-either winzip or winrar
2.Extract all ur downloaded brushes to -local disk(C)
-program files
-GIMP-2.0
-share
-gimp
-2.0
-brushes <---extract ur brushes to here
3. Done! Now you have new brushes :D
4.When at gimp,just click refresh brushes & those new brushes you have just installed which will come up,and u can start using them!

[Storm]

thanks chews

[Storm]

hey this is my result of the tut i made it for a mate so this one is'nt much
i cant seem to do what loki told me to when i show an image so heres the url
http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=84162117ms5.jpg

[lokifeyson]

looks good :D

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6171/84162117ms5.jpg

ok i did this by clicking on your link to the image, then go to direct link (or you can right click on it and get it there 2)
then when you go to post it, put img tags around it, there is even a button for it when you post, make sure to put one before and after the link :D

[Storm]

cool thanks loki!! i got it that time lol
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6171/84162117ms5.jpg

[CloWn]

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd106/hughesy777/Rikkusig.png

What ya's reckon? =P

[lokifeyson]

looks good except for that fact rikku is totally pixelated, was it just that bad of an image?

[CloWn]

Yeah, I tried desperatly to fix her but somthing went wrong a long the way. Nothing I did fixed her so I hadta settle. =P

Any pointers on what would have kinda, drawn away from the pixilation?

[lokifeyson]

yea, lol go here and use this render of her! http://planetrenders.net/renders/displayimage.php?pos=-12233

if your not a member I suggest you become one, its free and it is worth it! :D

[CloWn]

haha kool, thanks bro. So appart from that, any other suggestions?

[lokifeyson]

do you use gimp?

[CloWn]

I do

[lokifeyson]

haha, then no, lol

umm.....a blur effect maybe :?

[noobie]

well if the pic started off pixilated then, i suppose a blur would help, or very careful smudging maybe on a low opacity
A good clear picture from the start will always make a hell of a difference though, and the sig will be more eye catching, but its a very cool sig

[CloWn]

It was clear at the start and recently I found out what I did wrong. The render was way to big to slap strait into a sig, so I scaled it down, but then it was too small so I made it bigger.

After my recent sig makings I have relised that if you make a pic smaller in GIMP and it turns out too small, you need to undo and then shrink it again, or else you get that pixilated look...

Just a little tip for anyone that had the same problem and didn't know why.

[lokifeyson]

oh lol, well yea, I could have told you that, hehe :D
glad you figured it out :D

[CloWn]

haha, woops still have my flashing colours sig on, sorry if it gave anyone a headache.

[lokifeyson]

hehe, you messing around with animations :D

[CloWn]

haha, no. That was the slackest annimation ever. I just made 4 slides and put random colour on them. lol

[lokifeyson]

so you have been playing around, lol :D

[CloWn]

haha, yeah I guess. Arg, can't figure out how to add fonts to gimp, anyone know how?

[noobie]

you just add font to windows....
go to control panel
go to fonts folder
put the fonts in by either dragging and dropping in, or click on file, instal fonts, find it then ok :D
Then reopen gimp up and they will be in there

[CloWn]

Yeah I figured it out.=P I was looking in my GIMP folder, like for adding brushes. But you don't hafta close GIMP, I just hit the refresh button and it was good. =P

[noobie]

oh kool, i never knew that, thanks :D:D

[CloWn]

Any one doing this tut, I strongly recomend you learn and master it. I use this tut on almost every sig (except experiments) and then just add some twist to it. If you wont that real abstract shiny look, like this.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd106/hughesy777/CloWncloudsig.png

Then treat this tut like your bible. To get the effect that I get there, just play around with the settings till it turns out hardcore. ;)

[lokifeyson]

you heard it folks! Hard! Core! 8)

[CloWn]

That's right. I'm pretty hardcore, so I like my art to be hardcore!

www.myspace.com/lostinthedark77

Oh yes, my name is I Am Hardcore!

[lokifeyson]

awesome! :twisted:

[noobie]

Hehe, yeah i use this way to work quite a lot, and add and change things to make them different, different brush sets make a huge difference too, i even use this way in photoshop too :D

[CloWn]

I like using different bushes but I find it hard to leave my favourites out of a sig. The end product with them in it is awesome, but it leaves small variety between sigs unless I dramatically change the modes. It's strange how fast you get attached to brushes. :D

[Vintage]

Noobie, Can ya help me with this:

1.I download a brush, say its name is 666
2. Where do i put it lol
Im using GIMP 2.4.4 btw

[noobie]

go to

c drive
documents and settings
then your computers username
then gimp folder
then brushes folder
put it in there

im not so sure if its the same place with 2.4 tho, but it should be.
then restart your gimp, and your new brush set should be in there :)

[Vintage]

THANKS NOOBIE!!!!

[Vintage]

A little question,

When i open my render as a layer, sometimes on PLanet REnders they have those names next to them like: RENDERED BY BOB or something. How do i get rid of that text? I just went over it with a black brush and then when i try brushing over it it misses it and stays black, how do i get rid of the text without stuffing up my brushing?

[diesel]

erase it

[Vintage]

Using the eraser? Good idea! Thanks diesel

[-bH.munky]

Here's what I got with this(Divide made the colours a bit wierd but I think it's nice)
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg37/Munky6666666666/gearsofwar.jpg

[noobie]

oo funky background hun, im not so sure the render goes so well with it, just the colours are so so different, but the background is brill, really ace work

[-bH.munky]

Yeah, it looked well until I divided it then the background looked cool but not with the render. I used a mix of neverinwter and nitro brushes.

[noobie]

did you have a play with the other options rather that divide...screen might have worked?
but i likes it, its cool.
least now you get the jist of what that sort of way of doing it does....did that make sence lol

[-bH.munky]

Sort of :lol:. Yeah I messed around for 30 mins testing what would look best. Most of the time the colours didn't even change but I thought I'd use divide because it made the background look the best. Only just realised this was an advanced tut lol.

[Op_Hawk]

Really nice tutorial noobie :D , I tryed making a sig with this tut, here it is
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh86/Op_Hawk/Sig.gif
my 1st sig. Im not sure if i got all of tutorial down, but i think got most of it.

[noobie]

Ooo nice one hun, thats brill for your first sig. Keep it up :)

[Op_Hawk]

Thanks noobie, I'll try making a few more sigs today with the tut, it helped me alot :) .

[Raditz]

ahhh i found it,i found it!!

now i can add a glowish effect,thanks for the tutorial :D :D

[hackgod]

that last part didnt work for me :oops:

[Storm]

that last part didnt work for me :oops: it didn't hmm you mean the buring?

[hackgod]

i tried it again and this time worked for me :oops:

[Storm]

ok lol you want some more tuts then ask me i know a whole site if you haven't already found it lol

[hackgod]

what are you waiting for?? :P

well post the link or PM me :wink:

[foggy]

tis is my 2nd sig not following ur exact instructions but eventually i came up with this thx !
http://www.signaturebar.com/uploads/images/31546.jpg (http://www.signaturebar.com/)

[conza111]

thanks a lot. this helped me try one, still turned out rubbish!

[Rapidexcel]

Here comes the good stuff thanks for the tutorial noobie.

[HustlerxXXx]

i dont rly understand the last part...how can u do those settings with layers?...i mean length and everything thats written there!

[Eliix]

Heres what I came up with. I'm selling this between my friends, so theres no name on it.

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb186/BananaSlicer/sig2.jpg

[Slag2]

A truly brilliant guide! I liked it a lot! :lol:

I made my signature about a week ago using the same basic idea. What do you think?

[Draconigena]

tyvm noobie. I used this tut to make this, my 1st attempt at a signature

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/5949/my1stsigku5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[FlyGuy]

i downloaded some brushes but dont know how to find and use them

[shaothemerciful]

[img]http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/farrah2108/tut3-2.jpg


Okay- here is my problem- I have my render selected, and I pick the dropper from my toolbox. I click on a color, and it opens a READ-ONLY version of the pallette editor, and doesn't select my color that I want to use for the background brushwork. I've tried several locations on the render- different shades of the color- and get the same result....

A little help?

[shaothemerciful]

Wow... I mean, WOW! I Figured it out! I'm such a noob! lolololol.

Anyway, here is a sig I'm actually proud of... CnC it up, plz (yeah, yeah, I'm still a beginner, it's very basic, blah, blah, blah... :roll: :wink: :D )

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc34/shaothemerciful/Forum%20Sigs/ShaoGIMP2.jpg

EDIT: Oh! Noobie! This Tutorial is SOOOOOooooo PRO! TY so much for taking the time to educate us noobs, lol :D

[boykuripot03]

thanks for the info.. realy could use it

[caberon]

nice works of art

[Carlos]

noobie where do i put my fonts that i download i mean where to put them in gimp

[AznBrotha101]

Thanks for the tutorial and the links :D
My gimp skills have improved by 1%

[LordDark92]

wow so nice

[Jako3000~fg]

yay, i could follow this one all the way trough...had problems with the bg but i think it came out nice

here are the two versions (couldn't decide how i liked the border)

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/Jako_3000/sigs/playinaround-1.png

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a203/Jako_3000/sigs/playinaround-2.png

which one is better?

[Orich]

ok, so got my new PC re-downloaded GIMP, then followed this TUT to make


http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff308/deathsage666/subzerosig.jpg

to get the hang of making the sigs again, i made this one, very lame, very simple, just practice


http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff308/deathsage666/dwarfsig.png


i do have a question, how do you select two different paths to remove the first time you make the path, for EX in http://planetrenders.net/renders/displayimage.php?pos=-22646 between the first and second horn there is a little black space, im my rendor i used pencil to fill it up, how do i select it with the rest of the path im deleting?

[Bickyz]

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh72/bickyz_man/bickyzavatar.jpg

i made this after a play around :) using my avatar from Xbox Live. its my second ever sig :) i quite like it.