Photoshop Lessons and Sig MAKING Help

[Vice-President Rufus]

thanks

[Rengori]

How would I do an effect similar to the one Red Wizard does in this 8-Bit Theater strip where he's charging his blast?

[Pheesh]

where do you guys get cool fonts. I've only got lame ones.

Stay Essential
EE

[Mittopotahis]

In Photoshop (I am using the trial version of CS2), is there an option which allows you to auto-animate something? As in, just say I want some text to scroll from right to left. Is there an option which will do that automatically for me?

[Cybele]

How would I do an effect similar to the one Red Wizard does in this 8-Bit Theater strip where he's charging his blast?

You mean the stars? Brushes. If you have photoshop, it comes with a single star brush that you can put on there a bunch of times and get that effect. The stars over the mage are probably on a new layer with the opacity dropped.

where do you guys get cool fonts. I've only got lame ones.

Stay Essential
EE

I get mine from Dafont Just download them, unzip, then install them into your font folder which you can access through the control panel.

In Photoshop (I am using the trial version of CS2), is there an option which allows you to auto-animate something? As in, just say I want some text to scroll from right to left. Is there an option which will do that automatically for me?

Nope. You have to do it manually in Imageready, which should have come with photoshop. Jasc animation shop has a bunch of auto stuff though and I know you can have animation shop do that automatically.

[Nick Schovitz]

Oh man, first I ned to know where I can download it.

[Ashley Schovitz]

Is Gimp free?

[Cybele]

Is Gimp free?

Yes.

[Ashley Schovitz]

Okay I've downloaded it now and I'm al confused, I thought it would be simple but even when i click on help it says that the help is not available and check your inmstallation, what now?

[Rengori]

How do I get to the star brush?

[Leeza]

Okay I've downloaded it now and I'm al confused, I thought it would be simple but even when i click on help it says that the help is not available and check your inmstallation, what now?

If you require help with Gimp, please the the Gimp Help thread.

[~SapphireStar~]

I really want to be creative more with my signatures and Im loving Casteal's current creation:

And these from some old forums I was from:


It would be helpful cause I so want to experiment more, but I havent got a clue on how to start with these designs

[moogle maniac]

ive made a sig and i try in upload onto photobucket but it says the file type has an invalid format how do i change that

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

ive made a sig and i try in upload onto photobucket but it says the file type has an invalid format how do i change that

If you are using something like Photoshop you have been saving them as Photoshop files right?

Keep on doing that if you want to come back and edit it later, but also save a copy as JPG/GIF/PNG

Preferably GIF if you are using it here seeing as it tends to give you the smaller file size. PNG tend always to be way too big and JPG you have to play with the quality level.

Now to do this, after you saved it as a project (The photoshop .psd for example), so back to File>Save As... This time under file type, open the drop menu and select ".gif", ".jpg" or ".png" Then when you do it will automatically add "copy" to the file name. Then hit save. For ".gif" you just click okay to everything, unless you want to play around with some settings. With ".jpg" you can lower and raise the quality and on the bottom it will tell you the file size. With ".png" you will have two options, leave it on its default. ^_^ Hopefully that helped...

[~SapphireStar~]

Can someone please help with my problem? Its 2 posts up.