Signature Requests

[Drex]

That looks really good

[thaKEAF]

I've got a little request for you guys.

I want the colors to be the colors of the Memphis Grizzlies, and I also want the Memphis Grizzlies logo on the banner. For the pictures I want Kobe Bryant (I'd prefer him to have an all-star jersey on), Pau Gasol, and Shane Battier. For text I want 'thaKEAF' in small letters and "DYNASTY" in bigger letters.

Thanks to whoever can make me this banner.

Will do, I saw what you have right now and thought he needs a sig.
I'll see if a jersey switch on Kobe works well.

Haha, thanks alot man.

I want one thing changed though, could you replace Kobe with Iverson because I traded Kobe for Iverson in my dynasty. Thanks so much for this, I'm 100% your banner will rape my MS Paint thingamabob.

[Anthony15]

Hey can i have a sig with McGrady, Prince and Alston on the red/purple background and at the bottom it says Anthony15's Raps Dynasty?

Thanks!

[FendeR`]

I'm not going to gobble up all the requests if someone wants to take Anthony's (looks at Goat/Colin/Habbukafaifjowehfow)

[FendeR`]

New sig with some techniques from some tutorials I've seen, any comments?

[thaKEAF]

I think you should change the font, it doesn't look good at all. And I'd move Big Ben up a little bit, it's nice though.

[The GOAT]

Looks good, and I agree with what he^ said.

Post up the tuts, I love that background.

[Colin]

I'm home sick and have nothing better to do, so I'll type up a quick tut on backgrounds.
No detail here, sorry n00b's.

Hit D, sets colours to default (black/white), render clouds until you get some good ones. Brush over that layer with a grunge brush in black, next layer a different grunge brush in white. In the next layer take a abstract brush of some kind and brush white if you want a lighter background, and black if you want a darker background. On top of that do more brushing like the first two layers, switchign colours everytime. You can change the blending style or opacity to the brushing layers for a softer/harder effect. I prefer to change opacity so you don't lose some of the brush detail so randomly. Over top of all that now, use another render-clouds and set it to overlay/soft light/whatever you want. Experimenting is the key here. Now if you've got a plain b&w background that might look kind of boring. On top of all that stuff make a new hue adjustment layer. Set this to the colour you want at about 40 opacity (you can vary of course). On top of this a colour balance layer makes the effect soooo much better. Let's say you have an orange background. On midtones you would slide the bars towards red and yellow (leave green/magenta alone), slide shadows a little over to blue and cyan, maybe a bit of magenta to keep the reddish ornage tones, and finally slide highlights to yellow and red a little moreso than what you did for midtones. Generally you shouldn't move the sliders past 30, but if it gets the effect you want do whatever you want. Now you have a good background. On top of this you can also use a brightness/contrast adjustment layer (3 adjustment layers!!!) and fiddle with contrast to get a softer/harder effect.

There are a lot of variations on this as well. You can use difference cloud filters on the cloud layers, you can have multiple hue layers and fade them into each other using gradients/brushing on the layer mask that automatically comes up, and it goes on.

And nice BG fender. But like has been said the text is bleah.

[FendeR`]

Well, I still varied from what this guy said a bit, but here it is. http://www.climb-x.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2898 I just found those forums searching around for stuff one time, I think it might be pretty decent even though it's small for some tutorials and stuff. And if you're wondering where to find this Metal guy is that he said makes great brushes (which he does), here's his whole da account. http://metal-cx.deviantart.com/ Btw the abstract 92 brushes are his best, but if you download the ones he converted to PS7, I found they're really low quality looking. I happened to use Flamix's Hard Grunge 5 brushes off of deviantart (they're pretty far back in the brushes list now).

[Mentally Hilarious]

Re-did somethingMafias avator. Don't knopw if it's better but I had to do something else then that d-a-m-n wall.

[-BHZMAFIA-]

I really like it and my name is on it this time Even though it has no diamonds on it, it looks better than the previous one. Thanks

[Jay-Peso]

Was messing around today and tried some new stuff.

I don't get the brush stuff yet but yeah.

Here's my newest work:

[Jackal]

Were you meaning to keep the redwine outline or could you just not get rid of that?

[FendeR`]

I don't get the brush stuff yet but yeah.

Maybe I can quickly sum it up. Go to the brush tool on the tool palette (left side). At the top you can change to some different size brushes. Most of the are square or round, generally boring. Which is where custom brushes come in. People make interesting brushes so you can create much better backgrounds and different effects (ad: check out my new sig). Try searching google for Photoshop brushes. Or, a much better way, use deviant art, a design site to find brushes. Just send the .abr file to C:\Program Files\Adobe\<yourversionofPS>\Presets\Brushes

There are 2 main types of brushes, grunge and abstract. Grunge makes sort of a dirty effect, while abstract could be basically anything interesting. As far as actually using the brushes, just put different ones onto a background in whatever way looks good, and tada. Then you can press ctrl+u and check the colorize box, and scroll through the different option bars to get what color you want.

Of course, there are much more complicated ways of using these brushes, but start off like that. Right now I'm looking at this board for different types of techniques, but some of those are problably too advanced. This is way longer than I hoped for, but hopefully it helped.

[FendeR`]

I just made a huge post to try to help James, but I just made a new sig that I'm wondering about. I just got Metroid Prime 2, so that's where it came from.

[Mentally Hilarious]

I like it alot, but maybe the higlight right about the R should be toned down, detracts from the text.

[The GOAT]

I like it

I feel like something's missing in this one...maybe you guys can help me out...



EDIT: Version 2.

[FendeR`]

It feels kind of like a red blob (lol). By that I just mean that everything is red, and there's nothing to contrast. I'd change the Nas picture back to it's original color, and maybe change text to black. I think the bg would also look better if there was more texture to it (it seems like there's a little bit next to Nas's face). Try some grunge brushes that have a little more texture.

[The GOAT]

The original pic is in black and white.

[FendeR`]

Oh, OK. Well, I like that new one considerably better than the first one. The colors just mix pretty well together for grunge.

[Anthony15]

Fender, can you make me that one that i asked?

[Jay-Peso]

Were you meaning to keep the redwine outline or could you just not get rid of that?

I didn't mean to keep it. I wasn't sure how to get rid of it.

I am so new to this stuff but thanks to Fender for the help. I will play around with it tommorow possibly.

Thanks again...

[Colin]

thaKEAF, here you are.

[thaKEAF]

Whoa, words can't describe how tight that is. I love everything about it, you are truly the man.

Edit: There's one problem, I can't put that in my signature. When I tried to put it in they said it was too large in size.

[-BHZMAFIA-]

Wow Colin, you made me jealous. Now I want another sig and avator for my Sixers dynasty