Die Nasty's Beginner Sig Tutorial

[dienasty]

Die Nasty's Beginner Sig Tutorial


ok this tutorial is going to show you how to make one of my previous sigs i have made its going
to be simple since many people on psp hacks are not familiar with the Photoshop software...
since i liked the sig I made for R3tard so i decided to make this tutorial on how i made it..
Of coarse its not likely you will get the exact thing but it will be very similar…

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/retard.png

things you will need..
1.Photoshop * im using Photoshop CS they are all similar so don’t worry if you have a different version..*
2.Some renders *i will provide the ones that im going to be using on this thread*
3.creativity
4.A mouse for your computer...
5.A monitor to view your sig
6.And also a computer...
the last three were intended to make you laugh....

ok now first open photo shop.... you will come to this screen

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/pic1.jpg



now you will need your renders you can download them on the bottom link.... You will probably need to shrink them since its up to you on how big your sig is…

RENDERS
http://rapidshare.de/files/30172917/renders.rar.html <-- rapidshare
http://www.sendspace.com/file/663vc3 <-- send space


now that you have your renders ....you have to start getting creative this tutorial is intended to get you
familiar with Photoshop how are you supposed to do that if don’t want to experiment?


ok now we start off with opening a new file you do this by going to FILE>>NEW>>and I made my sig size 450 *width* by 121 *height* that’s the max sig size for psp hacks and I like a big working space....


http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/measur.jpg


Ok now that we have our canvas paint the background black with the brush tool or pencil it really doesn’t matter.. Now we should have this…

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/black.jpg

now we grab a background i chose this one shown below..

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/movetool.jpg

it is called swirl in your render pack you download up top....

and with the move tool http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/movetoolpic.jpg we grab our render and place it over the black background lets call this layer swirl…

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/movetool.jpg

once you have the render positioned you grab another one and again place it over the previous one I used this as my second render name this gloss


http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/move2.jpg

Now we have this^^^^^


Now just one last layer… were going to add the layer called sharp


http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/paste3.jpg

Place it over the rest of our layers and we should have this ^^^


Now adding the layers is done woot woot now its time to start touchups and blending

First Blending…

The blend tool bar or box whatever you want to call it is located here ….

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/layerblending.jpg


These are my blending options

Click on any layer you want and switch it around..... I set my layers to this….


Swirl = normal
Gloss = vivid light
Sharp = overlay

Now we have an ok.. Background now we add our gaming render you will most likely have to shrink this image To shrink the image go to IMAGE>>IMAGESIZE I set my properties to 320 width and 307 height…

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/toolbox.jpg


Now place the soldier image over the background layers and place it how ever you may like…I came up with this…

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/cameupwith.jpg


Now once we have our soldier in place we click on our sharp layer and when we do we have to choose the option of color balance press this button shown below then choose the option of color balance…

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/colorbalance.jpg


Once you have selected that option you go to the top lever and raise it to 100% then you just leave it alone..

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/100.jpg


Now once we have completed that its time to say bye bye to that blue background…
To do that we need a new layer so go ahead and create a new layer ....

This background should be tan since the soldier is tan… so I took the dropper tool http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/dropper.jpg and I clicked on the soldiers hat because I figured that was the best color for a tan look….

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/wheretoputdropper.jpg


Once you have your tan color selected bring out the brush and with that new layer brush then tan all over to create this…..

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/tan.jpg

Ok now we need to merge this layer to the color balance layer…. to do that move your cursor right between the two layers and press ALT and you will get a cursor that looks like an eye just go ahead and click and the layers will look like this….

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/notice.jpg

Now its time to blend again..

Your new layers blending option should be = NORMAL
The color difference should be set to = Color
And the rest of the layers are fine

You should have this now…

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/almostfinal.png

Once you have that you add your text…

Be creative lets see what you get I’ve gotten you this far =)

And then if you want to go the extra mile add a border by grabbing the pencil tool
*you can use it by right clicking the brush tool* the pixel set I use for borders
Is set to 4 px ……..remember if you press shift your lines should stay straight….

This is your final sig YAY!!

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/almostfinal.png


If you mess around and add more renders you could end up with this…

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/dienasty_2006/tut/final.png

I hope this helped some one out a bit =) if you have any questions go ahead and ask
ill answer them for you …. And also if you take this tutorial please post what you ended up with… I want to see how I could improve my tutorials… thanks for taking the time to read this …Die Nasty….

[Foxhound]

sweet, this is exactly what I need. thanks man.

[dienasty]

^no prob i hope you can still see the details in the pics if you cant you can easily press properties then copy the link and put it in the adress bar

[Joe88]

~STICKYED~

[RaiderX]

awesome tutorial dude! im gonna have to remember to makie some tutorials soon and post em here! :D Great work!

[dienasty]

ty ^^ lol wow my first sticky =) its also the first post that took make 45 mins to complete lol i hope whoever follows the tut likes it...

[LyGht]

Home-run dienasty! Such a beautifull guide for all us photoshop-newbs. Thanks a bundel dude! :bucktooth:

[Joe88]

yes very good

maybe even I could try working with a pic

mostly I work with gifs
and when I try to edit a jpeg I have no idea wtf im doing :lol:

[Man.]

going to try this out

thanks

[1God1King]

thanks dienasty appreciate it alot . off i go to make a sig . thanks once again

[p0Wer]

Cool, good tutorial.

Although a lot of pictures have a white background around them or somethis behind them... :/

Perhaps you could explain how to get rid of the background and just end up with the part they want?

[dienasty]

Cool, good tutorial.

Although a lot of pictures have a white background around them or somethis behind them... :/

Perhaps you could explain how to get rid of the background and just end up with the part they want?
hmm i have no clue what you meant their? :/ ^ lol you mind giving me an example... :)

[R3TARD]

Nice tut for a badass sig ^^

[sticky]

anybody mind uploading dienasty's renders on sendspace??? i cant download from rapidshare....

thanks in advance

[HookBott]

Awsome tut, it is very noob freindly

[dienasty]

anybody mind uploading dienasty's renders on sendspace??? i cant download from rapidshare....

thanks in advance
look up top i added the sendspace link...........

[sticky]

heres the one i made following your tutorial

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1647/untitled1fb4.jpg


one problem: i did not add the gloss render as i cant drag it into the layer.. when my cursor reaces the layer with sharp and swirl, it gives me a "stop" sign, which means im unable to put the render in.. dunno whats the problem...



anyway, heres a frozen pic i made from a tutorial i found

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7690/stickydp0.jpg


thanks for the renders!! please make more tutorials, your tutorials rocks!

[dienasty]

ok i know what the problem is........ you know that pic that wont let you move go to the top and next to file... go to IMAGE>>MODE>>RGB COLOR and that will fix your prob i better fix that.......... thats my fault * updated the renders work now if you want to redownload...*

[sticky]

^^ thanks.. gonna try making it again when im free,, :D

[p0Wer]

Cool, good tutorial.

Although a lot of pictures have a white background around them or somethis behind them... :/

Perhaps you could explain how to get rid of the background and just end up with the part they want?
hmm i have no clue what you meant their? :/ ^ lol you mind giving me an example... :)
Say if they wanted a car on their signature, and got an image from google images e.g this one:

http://motor.tuportada.com/img/wp/lamborghini-gallardo-12.jpg

You could explain how the noobies can get rid of the black background outside the car and put it on their sig so the black background isn't there.

Lol sorry if it sounds confusing.

[sticky]

Cool, good tutorial.

Although a lot of pictures have a white background around them or somethis behind them... :/

Perhaps you could explain how to get rid of the background and just end up with the part they want?
hmm i have no clue what you meant their? :/ ^ lol you mind giving me an example... :)
Say if they wanted a car on their signature, and got an image from google images e.g this one:

http://motor.tuportada.com/img/wp/lamborghini-gallardo-12.jpg

You could explain how the noobies can get rid of the black background outside the car and put it on their sig so the black background isn't there.

Lol sorry if it sounds confusing.
one word: HAWT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Man.]

to cut out pictures i use a lasso tool, takes time but its worth it

[dienasty]

Cool, good tutorial.

Although a lot of pictures have a white background around them or somethis behind them... :/

Perhaps you could explain how to get rid of the background and just end up with the part they want?
hmm i have no clue what you meant their? :/ ^ lol you mind giving me an example... :)
Say if they wanted a car on their signature, and got an image from google images e.g this one:

http://motor.tuportada.com/img/wp/lamborghini-gallardo-12.jpg

You could explain how the noobies can get rid of the black background outside the car and put it on their sig so the black background isn't there.

Lol sorry if it sounds confusing.
lol you mean rendering.... i coulda done that but remember this is supposed to be a quick simple sig that looks good maybe ill make another tut later on and ill show how to render =) thanx for clearing that up power

[p0Wer]

lol i know how to do it it was just 4 the noobies and maybe another guide will be useful?

[sticky]

yup.. many many guides would really help noobs like me. i always have to refer to tutorials in order to do a picture, sad... im such a n00b......

[fimmy]

Dienasty you have a awesome sig :O...
im tryna make my own...ill post my result..

[chaos_xx]

mm i guess here..

could you make me a sig with the background of sepultura's chaos a.d. cd cover with my name somwhere?

[mz_as_ace]

Oh my god! Dienasty you are so fucking good at this! you are the fucking man dude! Make another tutorial man. I learned how to make sigs from this. I'll try to post what I came up with using this tut. :mrgreen:

[mz_as_ace]

I couldn't do it. :( I couldn't get the tan color. :(

[sukhvail]

im ur basic noob at photoshop. i got up to the step where you said to set your colour difference to =colour. how would i do that?? its probably really obvious because everyone else seems to not have any probs. but like i said i am a photoshop noob =)

[DayWalker]

Thanks, this was helpful

[Vampiro93]

ive done evyrithng except one.. and its the main 1 !! lol got a problem when i have to change the color to the hat tan i got the same window of layer but tthe thing is it doesnt change colour on the sig, i mean i dont think i know where the color difference thingy is

thx

[fimmy]

ive done evyrithng except one.. and its the main 1 !! lol got a problem when i have to change the color to the hat tan i got the same window of layer but tthe thing is it doesnt change colour on the sig
lol, make a new layer then brush on.. see if that works ;)

[Vampiro93]

done that too its just where is the color difference

[fimmy]

hmm i think i got stuck on that bit too..

i just skipped it lol :P

my sig came out pretty good though :/

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l94/fimmy_2006/fimmytut1.jpg

[Vampiro93]

lol yeah its awesome but now im really stuck, i closed it and tried it again but now in the colr balance of the soldier i get it going completly red and its so differnt to the tut, wat did u do to skip it?, i got till brushing the new layer now how do i get it to blend i can do that alt thing but nothing changes

alright ... die nasty can u add some stuff while blending it for the last time to help newbies man i cant see why it doesnt work :|:|

[fimmy]

i mean skipped that step and went on to the next one lol

and whenever you make something on photoshop always save the psd, thats the first file that comes up when you go to 'save as'
that way when you click on dat psd it opens your image up with all the layers and stuff and its easy to change then..

and to blend... just go to the layers box, bottom right hand side..
and click on what ever layer it says in the tut and then above that layer box it should have all the blending options, click on the layers and change them all to what it says in this tut..

post back ya result no matter how it comes out... :)

[Vampiro93]

man i know that its just than it wont do it ( imean the background wont come in that colour thats it no matter what i do here the result:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/Vampiro93/My%20Sigs/Untitled-1.jpg

why cant i get the renders on the background

i tried more and i got this even with the other layer painted on :
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/Vampiro93/My%20Sigs/Untitled-1part2.jpg

[dienasty]

set the blening mode to hue or overlay.... if you dont know what it is ill post a pic... good luck =)

[Vampiro93]

look it goes like this... ur guide, i did : gloss sharp swirl soldier all correct on top of each other, blend mode done looks the same as the guide, balance control of this soldier looks same i chose the tan and brushed over... and it was like the image above the 1st one, then my problem is to merge the layer to the balance control layer... dont get a thing there

edit : when i set the blend mode of the new layer to hue it does this :
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/Vampiro93/My%20Sigs/Untitled-1part3.jpg

lol one thing i forgot to do is set it to color but even though when i do that this is what i get, why cant i get the right color??
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/Vampiro93/My%20Sigs/Untitled-1part4.jpg

edit again... hehe well man u confused me now in only one part, the thing where u say se color difference to color i change the blending mode to color, maybe im wrong cause i didnt know what color differnce was, well anyways great guide: my result:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/Vampiro93/My%20Sigs/Finishedsoldier.jpg

[fimmy]

look it goes like this... ur guide, i did : gloss sharp swirl soldier all correct on top of each other, blend mode done looks the same as the guide, balance control of this soldier looks same i chose the tan and brushed over... and it was like the image above the 1st one, then my problem is to merge the layer to the balance control layer... dont get a thing there

edit : when i set the blend mode of the new layer to hue it does this :
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/Vampiro93/My%20Sigs/Untitled-1part3.jpg

lol one thing i forgot to do is set it to color but even though when i do that this is what i get, why cant i get the right color??
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/Vampiro93/My%20Sigs/Untitled-1part4.jpg

edit again... hehe well man u confused me now in only one part, the thing where u say se color difference to color i change the blending mode to color, maybe im wrong cause i didnt know what color differnce was, well anyways great guide: my result:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/Vampiro93/My%20Sigs/Finishedsoldier.jpg
lol came out good ;)

[Vampiro93]

thx... btw man how do i make gif sigs urs looks great

[fimmy]

thx... btw man how do i make gif sigs urs looks great
imageready ;)

takes some time but its worth it...

btw i didint make that sig

...SHAD0W... made it for me ;) lol

im having trouble with animation awell

:o :o :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :surprised: :rolleyes: :o :o

[Vampiro93]

do u know any tut for it

[bigballa0722]

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h256/bigballa0722/sig.jpg

this is mine tell me how it looks...

[Vampiro93]

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h256/bigballa0722/sig.jpg

this is mine tell me how it looks...
pretty good!!! theyre actually great images :)

[devilman]

this is a really good tut it helped me alot when i first started nice 1

[dienasty]

came out good for a first sig ty for using my tut =)

[Vampiro93]

here is another of my results
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l88/Vampiro93/My%20Sigs/KingSig.jpg

Edit : btw die nasty wat is the font u usedin ur guide.. i ca nt seem to find simple fonts...got 4200 but they suck!!!

[Splitz]

GREat tutorial, took me a little bit but i made it great tut

[ratchet]

heres the outcome i got http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome.png

[FamilyGuy]

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome.png
http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/9558/huhhhey7.png

Um, thats nice but i...

[ratchet]

Whole collection

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-halo.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Ratchet.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Zelda.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Sonic.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Metroid.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Mario.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Skyline.png

[Dr34ds]

Whole collection

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-halo.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Ratchet.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Zelda.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Sonic.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Metroid.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Mario.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Skyline.png
:posessed:

[fimmy]

Whole collection

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-halo.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Ratchet.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Zelda.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Sonic.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Metroid.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Mario.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Skyline.png
:posessed:
:twisted:

[ratchet]

Whole collection

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-halo.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Ratchet.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Zelda.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Sonic.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Metroid.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Mario.png

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i211/sly-_-man/Outcome-Skyline.png
:posessed:
:twisted:
:lol: :lol: :P :P ;) :D :D they look nice :) i can give away some of them ;)

[Vampiro93]

hey ratchet .. wats the font u used.. and plus where do u get ur renders..??

[ratchet]

www.gamerenders.net and the font is dark crystal i give you one of the sigs if you want ;)

[Vampiro93]

www.gamerenders.net and the font is dark crystal i give you one of the sigs if you want ;)
no thx man but theyre good :)

[ratchet]

ok you wanna make on your own ;) good luck they were easily made

[MooL]

Hi Sorry to bring up a old thread;) But can someone reupload the render pack that comes with this tut plz :)

[Invalice]

you need to upload the renders again

[Jain7th]

you can use any render/c4ds for that tut. it really doesn`t matter, did that myself too

[emotechie_03]

the renders can't be downloaded anymore.. pls upload it again.. thanks..

[Nacos]

The fact that noone has posted here in over a year wasn't a give away that the links might be dead?

[HookBott]

The fact that noone has posted here in over a year wasn't a give away that the links might be dead?
He must have looked at the sticky, found this tut and then posted.

Check www.planetrenders.net