Sig question

[Colonel Z.e.r.o.]

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm199/c...ebrabannerb.gif

I've been wondering for years....How did you guys go about making your sig pics pop out of the border like this? (yes I know u use pngs with em).

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[Nikolaus]

transparency?

[Culebra]

Yeah take your "background" pic and put it on a larger transparent layer. This transparent layer is the real background but you cant see it. This lets you drag the ships or whatever off the apparent background and onto the real one wich is transparent. Then save as a gif image.

Thats how I did it but I am a photoshop newbie.

[Etaphreven]

Err, in Photoshop.:D

Let's say the whole image is 1000x1000 pixels

Layer 1 has the background (till that border), like in Culebra's sig. The background is smaller than the size of the image, let's say 800x800. The rest to 1000x1000 is transparent. (Select his sig here on your browser so that you can see what's transparent aswell.)

Layer 2 has those ships that come out of the sig, for example. Now remember, the whole image is 1000x1000 while the visible background is only 800x800. The ships are placed on the edge of the so-called background, but on this layer.

Another way to think of it is to imagine that layer 2 doesn't overlay layer 1. Imagine that layer 1 is 800x800, and that layer 2 is around it and transparent. Now imagine putting something a ship render for example so that it's on both layers.

... does that make any sense?:P

[Exile]

It does, actually. Thanks for that, was just trying my clueless hand at it too.

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[Colonel Z.e.r.o.]

Err, in Photoshop.:D

Let's say the whole image is 1000x1000 pixels

Layer 1 has the background (till that border), like in Culebra's sig. The background is smaller than the size of the image, let's say 800x800. The rest to 1000x1000 is transparent. (Select his sig here on your browser so that you can see what's transparent aswell.)

Layer 2 has those ships that come out of the sig, for example. Now remember, the whole image is 1000x1000 while the visible background is only 800x800. The ships are placed on the edge of the so-called background, but on this layer.

Another way to think of it is to imagine that layer 2 doesn't overlay layer 1. Imagine that layer 1 is 800x800, and that layer 2 is around it and transparent. Now imagine putting something a ship render for example so that it's on both layers.

... does that make any sense?:P

I think I tried that by increasing the cavas size. But what do to borderline it like you have? Also how do you make your ship look all clean like that?

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[Etaphreven]

Err, use the selection tool. Select the thing you want bordered, and right click on the image. Then click on stroke.

EDIT: That is, if you want a simple border, like mine. Mine's 1 pixel black.

[ioha]

I think I tried that by increasing the cavas size. But what do to borderline it like you have? Also how do you make your ship look all clean like that?

Get a render of what you want or - eeeeek! - mask the image yourself. I hate the latter. Cause I'm lazy.

Transparency is a general winner, anyways. Makes prolly anything look 150% better.

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[Colonel Z.e.r.o.]

Mask?

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[Etaphreven]

Mask?

I've no clue what he's on about.:P