This is a tutorial on how to make sw33t borders. It works better on bigger sigs, but it looks ok on small ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 1

 

 

 

Take the image that you want to put a border on. I used part of an old render.

 

 

 

Step 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok now right click the lasso tool and select the option Polygon Lasso

 

 

 

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Step 3

 

 

 

Select the outline of what you want the border to look like, for straighter lines select the shift key.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now go to select, then press inverse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make a new layer then fill in the area with white.

 

 

 

Step 4

 

 

 

Change the foreground color to a light shade of gray, and the background to a dark shade of gray . Now go to Layer, Layer Style, Bevel and Emboss.

 

 

 

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Leave those settings as they are, but click on gradient overlay, then change the gradiant to Foreground to Background.

 

 

 

Also set the angle to -90 for a better look.

 

 

 

Then click on stroke and set the size to 1 and the color to black

 

 

 

 

 

 

Slap on some text, and you have yourself a nice sig :D.

 

 

 

Here is what I came out with:

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have any questions, just post them right here.

Pretty good tut, you left it very basic and easy to understand. The pictures pretty much explain how to make the boarder by themselves. You should maybe add on there how to make a transparent boarder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

very good job :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jamie

lol my brother had made a transparent border tutorial, it was on the sticky. im gonna see if there is any record of it on my computer.

Could use a noise filter with a motion blur to make it look more like metal.... right now just looks like a b&w gradient... (which it is)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before and After

Very nice tut *gets on PS to do it*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seen one similar on http://www.good-tutorials.com but this one is easier ;).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The one I tried before had it's own metal texture, but I can't get it to work :(.

nice.. too bad i dun have photoshop :(

ok lol that noise thing is great idea, i will change when i stop pking.. and btw if anybody wants a sig like the one i just made, pm and i will make one (not for free)

This is what I managed to produce, didn't follow the guide at all though, lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My first sig ever made:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little bit too big though, so I'll have to save it as a .gif insted.

nicey, suggest it to http://www.good-tutorials.com 8)

Nice and simple, people should have no trouble following it

nice tut! :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I could not make same size borders on each side... :roll:

Very nice tut *gets on PS to do it*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PlayStation? :lol:

Photoshop m8. Not PlayStation. :wink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:twisted: F!r3$70r/\/\ :twisted:

Nice tut, the pictures aren't working for me right now but you can easily follow it from the text.

it didn't work for me :cry:

be more specific

i followed it step by step and there was no metal border

i followed it step by step and there was no metal border

 

 

 

dude u must be doing sumthing wrong, show me what u came up with