Custom Made Sig and Avatar [6]

Archie,
We must be on the same wave length as I was thinking of making a 9/11/2001 sig also...
Maybe even a wall if I get time.
Have a great day M8
Dennis

Britton30 said:

Hi Dennis, I have that only from Tools/Options, not on the tool bar. how do I put it in the tool bar?
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I've not checked in PS yet.

Gary, it is Nick's workspace ... which makes the life with CorelDraw much more easy . Haven't you applied it ?

The Howling Wolves said:

Archie,
We must be on the same wave length as I was thinking of making a 9/11/2001 sig also...
Maybe even a wall if I get time.
Have a great day M8
Dennis

Will wait to see it, Dennis ! I respect the saying ... you can destroy our buildings, but not our foundation . Here we are also a frequent victim !

Let's post up some new pics GFX team. Post a picture of you
Dennis, Arc, Chan,Jdobsy, and myself are already there....Nick?

@ Dennis, I found it, seems I have to click the Rectangle tool first...
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Britton30 said:

tom982 said:

The other day I made myself a sig for VF, but as you can see the edges on the rounded bits are a bit jagged

I'm using Photoshop Extended CS5 and anti-aliasing was on, but I can't figure out why the round bits are like that, any ideas?

Try making your image at 1300x300 then resize it to 650x150 and save. Or start with double the size of the end product.

I do that anyway Gary Thanks for the suggestion though!

The Howling Wolves said:

Tom, Gary and Athene,

In your set up for making the border ...do you not have these options?
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#1 is the shaping of the corner ...from a round corner,scalloped or chamfered corner
#2 is where you can shape any corner by increasing or decreasing the x and y axis.

Not sure you have these options with CS5 but I do in Corel Draw GS 5X

Dennis, I don't do it that way and I'm unaware of those features in Photoshop. What I do is make a rectangle (layer 1), duplicate the layer (layer 2), smooth the edges of layer 2 by say 50px, select layer 1, delete an chunk off two opposite corners to expose the layer behind, flatten the image.

It's kind of a bodge job really But it does the trick

Arc said:

tom982 said:

The other day I made myself a sig for VF, but as you can see the edges on the rounded bits are a bit jagged

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I'm using Photoshop Extended CS5 and anti-aliasing was on, but I can't figure out why the round bits are like that, any ideas?

Tom, I dont have any formal training in graphics .... still I am telling what I do , and those rough corners dont appear .

You are making a shape and work in it ..... after making the shape, ctrl+click on the shape to select the pixels of the shape, create a new layer, fill the new layer with paint bucket tool . Now hide the original shape , and work on the new layer which is an identical copy of the shape layer but doesn't have a shape path to make it look jagged .

If you find this method is childish, please dont laugh at me ... I am saying that I have no formal training .... so my methods are not formal. But it works .

I'll give this a go in a minute Archie, thanks for the suggestion!

Arc said:

Today I have made a new sig :)


EDIT : Sorry forgot to post the large preview !

Very nice sig Archie!

Athene said:

Your method is excellent, Archie

Did it work ? Is it able to remove the rough edges ?

Athene, Ctrl+click selects an object in photoshop or elements . For making rounded rectangles, use the keyboard command "U" for adobes products , and choose the rounded rectangular tool. But it makes a mask in the paths pallet , which cause the creepy corners . So I tried to avoid the mask .

Ctrl+click on the mask in layers pallet will select (not copy) the shape . now create a new layer and fill the selection with color .... which will make an exact copy of the shape, but not the mask .

If you work on it, it will be free from this unwanted things .

Well, tomorrow I will try to make a detailed post on it, step by step .