Hello fellow tip.it'ers and welcome to this small post of mines. I recently made 2 signatures for forum use etc., I'm a big noob with Photoshop and even though I sometimes really try to get things straight I just don't succeed in getting everything from Photoshop that it offers me. Tutorials are mostly complicated or contradictive, and seem to require already some decent knowledge about the program. Well I just gave it a try and here's the result, just say what you think from them, what should be improved and things like that, cause I really want to use everything that is possible with Photoshop, it's an amazing program.

 

 

 

 

This one is quiet and contains some screens from dragon drops and some random images on RS, the background is pretty unclear, but it is dharok's tomb, behind this there's even another background (hard to see it), some sort of spirals.

 

 

 

 

This one is slightly less chaotic and I made it yesterday. I prefer it over the first one, I like the blue colours more and it has more simplicity. Like I said I'm a noob with Photoshop, I still don't even get exactly what a brush is since several people give different explanations. Also I have used just what the content of Photoshop offered me, just a background of our beloved planet earth, a bit of brushes in the right top corner (it is in Photoshop already, I didn't download/import anything in photoshop). Also the text is just from Photoshop, I didn't download it or anything (if anyone can explain me how you can "import" those fonts from those sites such as http://www.dafont.com please tell me!). It is a very basic signature tbh with a small animation. All I done was work a bit wit the opacity, brush and outer/inner glow/shadow. That's all. No blur or gradients. When I look at friend's signatures the background can already astonish me, and they all made it themselve,s and I think, how the heck! They mention to get brushes from the internet and things like that, however here's probably where I miss the point. How does this 'downloading?' of brushes and text fonts work, how can you 'import' those into your Photoshop? If anyone could be some sort of tutorial (or link) for this I would be really thankful.

 

 

 

Any advice on the signatures or Photoshop in general would be very helpful and I appreciate it alot, thanks.

fairly good work just crop in a little more detail when you are erasing the parts with the eraser tool just make sure you adjust the brush size so you can get rid of all the background bits of the pictures you don't want in the image

fairly good work just crop in a little more detail when you are erasing the parts with the eraser tool just make sure you adjust the brush size so you can get rid of all the background bits of the pictures you don't want in the image

 

 

 

I did that, I extracted it pixel for pixel and it always still gives me those white scars on the edges. However is there an easier way to extract images, what I done with this image was first take an ingame screen, then in paint I erased everything around my character so that everything around my character was white. However when you want to extract in Photoshop you still need to extract pixel for pixel, isn't there some sort of button (like in paint) that when you paste an image (with a white background) that only the image will appear and that you will not see the white background? I mean if you can do that in paint than Photoshop should surely be able to do that.