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Okay, so I downloaded GIMP and tried to make a Sig....

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Does it look okay?

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Wed May 30, 2007 2:16 am
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It does look okay and pretty cool too.

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It's quite good.


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It's good but the word"Deidara" should be in a different color.

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It's good. Just make "Deidara" a different color.

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Wed May 30, 2007 7:51 pm
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Thanks for the comments guys. I kind of like the color that Deidara is in, even though its hard to read. Everything else I tried looked too harsh against the kind of soft background and image.

Anyways, I made another one:

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I have a feeling it will have the same problem with the font.

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Thu May 31, 2007 4:40 pm
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Well done downloading GIMP. You obviously know how to do basic stuff, like putting images in there, so I suggest your next step is blending the image with the background. There are tons of ways to do so, and it looks a whole lot better when you do it. Just ask me or someone that's expericed or go to the GIMP basics guide and find some tutorials. Your bound to be better.

The first one is the coolest, the tect is cool even though you can't read it at once. Good job.


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Well, on this Sig I lowered the Opacity of the image, does that count as blending it with the Background?

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Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:56 pm
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Yes it does, but that's probably the simplest way of doing so, and it often makes it look too ghost-like and it's generally not the best way of blending. An easy alternative would be to do the following:
1. Select your render layer in layers dialog
2. Take out the free select tool, set feathering to around 10 -20 (or more, depends)
3. Select around the edges of your render
4. Ctrl + I (for Ice cream) and hit ctrl + K until it looks good. One time should be enough.

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I do think your sigs are good. :D I've always wanted to do this, but I think I wouldn't be good. I have pretty good artistic skills, but nothing in graphic designing. I should try if I'm interested though. What do you think? :?

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i think they are good too, i personally prefer using photoshop, but it does cost close to $800....

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Okay, I just whipped this up in about five minutes.....

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I did a terrible job with the Gengar render, oh well. I'll probably have more today....

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Ewwww its so good its sick haha. hey if you have time can you PM me a link for GIMP and teach me the basics of it. Thx in advance if you do i've been waiting a long time for someone to have an artistic sense


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Not too bad, the Gengar-Rotom-one sucks, no offense. If you want help just pm me and I'll send you instructions. When taking the black or white out of a picture, click on the white/black and drag it outwards to make the marching ants go in some more. Then press Ctrl+X to delete the white/black stuff.

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Yeah, I agree, the Gengar/Rotom one is terrible. It was just kind of a way of testing out SpagettiMonster's blending method. And normally I just use the "paths" tool for doing renders, but I'll try your way out.

Anyways, just some of the effects of random boredom:

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^Sig for another forums I'm at, I only had sprites available for the images though.

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^I didn't do the correct blending method with this one either, but I love that picture of Mudkip

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^Me testing out the new blending method

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^Another Sig I just finished

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