I thought Namless was pretty much there with the final design, however, it still had a few flaws that cannot be corrected in GIMP. I took it into Photoshop and did a few more touch ups to it. Please see the final version below. And feel free to tip me for my services at cashforlordtoshabi[at]coolmail[dot]com.
I was bored. So I made this:
I was thinkin of new ideas "on the fly" and the last one was to make it look like a frame from one of those old film rolls. Don't know how it turned out, what do you think?
I was thinkin of new ideas "on the fly" and the last one was to make it look like a frame from one of those old film rolls. Don't know how it turned out, what do you think?
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The text is hard to read, but besides that it looks pretty decent.
Try adding drop shadows, that can help readability in some cases.
Try adding drop shadows, that can help readability in some cases.
The_Nameless_Bard wrote:
Well, you can either change the signature size or use a little cheat I use for situations like this:
I simply duplicated the original image after I scaled it down, used the flip tool to flip it horizontally, and moved this duplicated layer so it slightly overlapped the original image (on the right side) without looking perfectly mirrored. Then, after making the duplicated image the same size as the image itself (in my case, 500X175) so there was transparency to smudge into, I used the smudge tool to smudge along the obvious line and in other places to make it just look like a "continuation" of the image. Then you can just merge the two layers together if you plan to edit the colors at all. Not perfect by any stretch on images like this, but it'll fool most people. It really works better on images with solid backgrounds though.
As for text, I'd use two fonts. A simple (likely sans serif) font in a smaller size for "bandaids don't fix" and a larger, more gritty font for "bullet holes". The one that came to mind was this one, because it looks like it was shot up, but what you used originally would work well too.
A simple way to just make sure the colors of your text match is to just set white text to overlay and duplicate it a few times for visibility. I usually add a drop shadow for further depth, but it works okay with out it. The other option is to make a new layer from the visible ones and use the color picker to pick up a color. The yellow from the explosion on the side, for example. Here's an example where I did both:
(this text placement kinda sucks though)
I simply duplicated the original image after I scaled it down, used the flip tool to flip it horizontally, and moved this duplicated layer so it slightly overlapped the original image (on the right side) without looking perfectly mirrored. Then, after making the duplicated image the same size as the image itself (in my case, 500X175) so there was transparency to smudge into, I used the smudge tool to smudge along the obvious line and in other places to make it just look like a "continuation" of the image. Then you can just merge the two layers together if you plan to edit the colors at all. Not perfect by any stretch on images like this, but it'll fool most people. It really works better on images with solid backgrounds though.
As for text, I'd use two fonts. A simple (likely sans serif) font in a smaller size for "bandaids don't fix" and a larger, more gritty font for "bullet holes". The one that came to mind was this one, because it looks like it was shot up, but what you used originally would work well too.
A simple way to just make sure the colors of your text match is to just set white text to overlay and duplicate it a few times for visibility. I usually add a drop shadow for further depth, but it works okay with out it. The other option is to make a new layer from the visible ones and use the color picker to pick up a color. The yellow from the explosion on the side, for example. Here's an example where I did both:
(this text placement kinda sucks though)
This one! Thank you for this!
(Just saw this hours ago, I haven't visited this thread for almost a week :P)
I took your advise and made another one (I'm tired of seeing Taylor Swift's face):
EDIT: Adjusted the font size of "bandaids don't fix" because I thought it was as big as "bullet holes".
Toshabi wrote:
ALL HAIL LORD TOSHABI, OR TOSHIBA, OR CROCONAW. WHATEVER, STILL ALL HAIL THE LORD OF GREATNESS.
Sig made by me!
Are you holding control when you scale images down? that'll keep the image from stretching in either direction
So, I officially give up with that Taylor Swift signature because that resulted my brain to a sh*tstorm.
So to calm myself up, I called on the god of kawaii-ness and I found Prinnies, lost souls who become penguins and explode when thrown. And I made a signature for that:
Comments regarding this signature is appreciated.
So to calm myself up, I called on the god of kawaii-ness and I found Prinnies, lost souls who become penguins and explode when thrown. And I made a signature for that:
Comments regarding this signature is appreciated.
Thanks OwenTheAwesomer for the sig!
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EDIT: HALP MEH! I need to move Taylor Swift to the left/right without stretching her! \(>3<)/
Here's the picture:
I simply duplicated the original image after I scaled it down, used the flip tool to flip it horizontally, and moved this duplicated layer so it slightly overlapped the original image (on the right side) without looking perfectly mirrored. Then, after making the duplicated image the same size as the image itself (in my case, 500X175) so there was transparency to smudge into, I used the smudge tool to smudge along the obvious line and in other places to make it just look like a "continuation" of the image. Then you can just merge the two layers together if you plan to edit the colors at all. Not perfect by any stretch on images like this, but it'll fool most people. It really works better on images with solid backgrounds though.
As for text, I'd use two fonts. A simple (likely sans serif) font in a smaller size for "bandaids don't fix" and a larger, more gritty font for "bullet holes". The one that came to mind was this one, because it looks like it was shot up, but what you used originally would work well too.
A simple way to just make sure the colors of your text match is to just set white text to overlay and duplicate it a few times for visibility. I usually add a drop shadow for further depth, but it works okay with out it. The other option is to make a new layer from the visible ones and use the color picker to pick up a color. The yellow from the explosion on the side, for example. Here's an example where I did both:
(this text placement kinda sucks though)