I am having a big problem making a siggy, I cant get the the pixels even close to the right amount that is aloud here. I seem to get get like 900x600 and about 50kb, I look at other siggys and they are way bigger than mine, I will post the picture if you want me too. Btw, probably its because im really not sure what pixels is. :roll: Any help would be appreciated.

If your talking about making a sig from scratch, then most programs let you set a size before starting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alt

Oh, well im trying to make one in ms paint should i get a better program?

Try searching for Graphics Gale, mind you download the free version, that will help, or a little amature trick I use in paint is to completely shrink the canvas, then copy and paste a sig that has the correct sizes, and white it out, whallah, save it as a template.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alt

Umm..Thank you very much. I will try this out, I will ask for more help if I need it. Thanks again. :)

No problem, and nice to see another pixeler, done and finished works yet?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alt

Dude, Alt, you can just find the corner and drag it in, watch the bottom of the screen and it should tell you what your dimensions are while you're dragging :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J272

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just trying to save you some time :D

Thanks both of you :)

I know, the bottom corner, but whenever I did that, I never got it spot on, dunno why, it's as if MS Paint was laughing at me, still, I though I was being pretty intelligent with my little method.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alt

Another question, which type of file is it best to save in?

Well, if your using MS Paint your best off with .bmp, anything else goes distorted, if your using Graphics Gale, .png is better.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the signature size limitation for this site is 300x150 so in ms paint just click on image at the top (along with File edit and view) and then go on attributes and you can set the screen size to 300 length and 150 height (look at the thumnails above :) ).. just draw on that size until you've done something pretty decent and save it as a PNG format, only a png format cus it maintains the quality and keeps at a good filesize (jpg distorts it, bmp makes it a giant filesize and a gif on paint makes the picture loose colours and you dont want that :S).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Go to http://www.imageshack.us to host the signature and after youve browsed the saved PNG file signature copy this over into your profile or into any forum post to show the image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course there are a load of tutorials and threads about how to do all this, try http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=100097 good info there and some tutorial links at the bottom..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope I helped :?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~Ter

oops oh well, btw, Im just trying to make a decent siggy now, and maybe go for more better looking things later.

Wow that helped me, cause Im still having a problem, The picture meets tip its requirements, but when i save it says a larger number, I try and crop, copy, open new ms paint, and paste. then save.

Thanks for that Ter, I never knew that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alt

Wow, I didn't know so many of you didn't know about that. :shock:

Try searching for Graphics Gale, mind you download the free version, that will help, or a little amature trick I use in paint is to completely shrink the canvas, then copy and paste a sig that has the correct sizes, and white it out, whallah, save it as a template.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i went into graphics gale and whats that bloddy language??? oh my god i thought i got a S.Q.L injection lol.

I never needed to know about it lol, mine always opened up to about 300x100, or something easily changed to 300x150 :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J272

Btw, probably its because im really not sure what pixels is. :roll: Any help would be appreciated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok this is one term that anyone doing any type of cg graphics needs to know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pixels are the dots that make up the image. A computer doesnt read image as a whole, but rather as tiny little dots each a seperate color. All graphics you see on your monitor are made of pixels. Resolution is the amount of pixel in that are Ex. 800 x 600 means a grid of 800 pixels in length 600 width.

 

 

 

So the total pixels to fill that area would be 480,000(800 x 600). Which is a very low resolution and will produce lower quality images and if your monitor is set to that then everything will be big. Set it to something like 1280 x 960 (my montior) The quality will greatly increase as i can hold more colors and detail. And with your monitor set to that things will appear smaller (such as text, and icons, blah blah).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If im confusing you, which most likely I am just google the word pixel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now MsPaint is fine for pixel and isometric sigs, which have a kind of cartoony feel. But for these other types youll need something like Adobe Photoshop (couple hundred $$$$) or Jasc Paint Shop Pro. Possibly even a 3d modeling program such as 3ds max, maya, or bryce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for landscapes you can use the free terragen. To find the download just google it.

Thx aldeon, Im still working on a style of sig to create. They are harder than i thought lol.