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General Discussion => Art => Topic started by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 12:35:35 pm

Title: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 12:35:35 pm
Well, I just started making signatures yesterday and have been enjoying myself.
If anyone wants one made by me, feel free to request it here.
All my signatures are usually about 300x100px in size (because of another forum's limits), but I can try other sizes.

Anyway, here's all I've done so far. (Note: Yes, these are my first ones ever and they DO get better as I go along.)

1. Katsu2. Epic Katsu3. Blood
(http://tehnyaar.com/sig.png/1stfox.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/sig.png/2ndfox3.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/sig.png/blood.png)
4. Assassination5. xHaseoKunx Request | Light6. xHaseoKunx Request | Dark
(http://tehnyaar.com/sig.png/APsig.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/sig.png/xHaseoKunx.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/sig.png/xHaseoKunx2.png)
7. Eeems Request8. Knighty9. Techno
(http://tehnyaar.com/sig.png/eeems3.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/sig.png/knighty.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/sig.png/APtechno2.png)
10. Becky (Headphones)11. Becky12. Fading Scarlet
(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png/mtbecky.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png/mtbecky2.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png/fadingscarlet.png)
13. Minnie14. Cooliojazz' Request15. Bioshock Challenge
(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png/minnie.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/nerd3.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/bioshock.png)
16. The Black Reaper17. Banisher of the Radiance18. Geekboy Request
(http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3706/nyaardtbsig.png)(http://removedfromgame.com/RFG.png)(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6091/solarflare.png)
19. Dynamic Rumia
(http://userbars.removedfromgame.com/images/aps-sig-final.png)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 23, 2009, 12:43:32 pm
YAY!

I kinda like the small format, because you can have more images and/or text in your sig  without breaking most rules :) I don't mind larger ones too, though, but yeah, as you could see, my banners tends to be very small when put in sigs, but I'm just too lazy to do a separate sig for forums with no sig rules so I just use the one where forums got sig rules x.x

My favourites are the 3rd one and the two last one. I can't tell if I like 5 or 6 more, though x.x, and I also like 4th, altough it would come behind. Nice job on all of them :)

TIMGUL banner is pretty much the best I can do, but I really hate messing with advanced softwares like Photoshop or The Gimp, so I just use Photofiltre Studio.
You should make more ^^
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 01:04:28 pm
wow, those are epic, I wish I could get photoshop working on my computer soon, not that  I'm that good at it....
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 01:16:43 pm
Hey, I just started making sigs for about 7 hours yesterday.
If I can do that, anyone can learn! =D

For now though, if anyone wants a sig made, they can come to me.
Just tell me what you want on it, if you prefer any color scheme, and any text you want displayed.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 01:23:10 pm
hmm, I'll take you up on that, how about black and red, with some sort of Emo like thing in it?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 01:25:35 pm
Yay! Fun colors!
Hm... 'emo thing' might be hard to find though.
Mind being a bit more specific in exactly what kind of 'emo thing' I should be looking for? ^_^
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: tifreak on June 23, 2009, 01:28:09 pm
what is that first one of?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 01:31:05 pm
The 1st one is a Baby Katsu Fox from the free MMO Ether Saga Online.
The exact picture is fanart from someone on Deviantart. (can't recall the name)

The second is the same thing, just different pose.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: tifreak on June 23, 2009, 01:36:18 pm
heh, well it is cute. Might have to look and see if I can find the author later
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 01:38:45 pm
Here's the link I was given to find it. (just checked again)
http://www.deviantart.com/#order=9&q=kdxy

Enjoy~
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: tifreak on June 23, 2009, 01:40:55 pm
Thanks ^^

Once I get home and on my faster internets, I will give it a look. =]
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 01:43:21 pm
Quote from: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 01:25:35 pm
Yay! Fun colors!
Hm... 'emo thing' might be hard to find though.
Mind being a bit more specific in exactly what kind of 'emo thing' I should be looking for? ^_^
I don't know...a rose with blood on it? A thorn with blood on it? I don't actually know
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 23, 2009, 01:56:20 pm
doesn't emo primarly refer to people with brown/black hairs where they completly block one of their eye and in most case wearing tight clothes?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 01:59:11 pm
Emo can be shown in a LOT of ways.
That's why I was asking him to be a bit more specific.

I'm working on a bloody rose sig now, Eeems.
We'll see how this come out~
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 23, 2009, 02:12:36 pm
yeah true. There's a emo music style. There's an emo clothing fashion/hair style. There's a emo way of life (I don't know everything, but it involves people cutting their wrists without the intention of killing themselves) and there's the figurative form of "emo", also prejudices at the same time, where either anyone who feels like killing himself is labelled as "emo" or as an even worse prejudice, anyone who shows any sign of sensitiveness or is seen crying is labelled as "emo". Basically, most 4chan/b/ users thinks anyone who's sensitive is "emo" and cut their wrists on a daily basis :P
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 02:33:36 pm
Okay, I'm getting close to being done.
What text do you want on it, Eeems? Just your username?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 02:33:47 pm
Emo's don't cut, cutters do. I'm not really emo, but I kind of do have the hair :P
thanks {AP}
EDIT: nice ninja, sure, just my username
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 02:52:18 pm
Okay, here's 4 versions.
It's easy enough to change the effects on the side of the rose however you want and I can do something else with the text if you like.
Just tell me what you want done to which one.

1. Both Effects2. Neither Effects
(http://tehnyaar.com/eeems.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/eeems2.png)
3. Left Effect4. Right Effect
(http://tehnyaar.com/eeems3.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/eeems4.png)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 02:54:58 pm
I'd have to say that I like 1 and 3 the best, I'm still unsure which one I like better
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 23, 2009, 02:57:05 pm
i like 3 the best
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 02:57:26 pm
Well, if there's any changes you want to be made, just tell me.
It's my first actual request and it's hard to know exactly what the customer wants. =P
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 03:11:09 pm
I think I'll go with the third one, thanks =)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 04:09:10 pm
Glad you like it!
I'm open to do more requests anytime!

(P.S. Updated the first post to include the one you picked.)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 04:35:35 pm
sweet, hope to see more of your work.
btw, what are you using to do this?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 04:42:13 pm
Photoshop CS4 but I'm not doing anything that couldn't have been done even on Photoshop 7. (which is what I used to use for things but I never got into making signatures until... 12 hours ago?)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 04:46:58 pm
ah
well I have Photoshop CS, but it doesn't work on my Vista, so I have to use GIMP, which I really suck at. so I'm guessing you just splice images together?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 05:09:00 pm
Well, it's more complicated than that. Here's the main tutorial I used at the start.
From there, I just use it kind of as a guideline and apply other techniques taught to me and just learned from experience.

All credit for tutorial given to Jedge. A friend of mine from another community. ;P
(Yes, I have his permission to post it.)
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs42/f/2009/137/9/3/Tutorial_by_xJedge.png)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 05:33:42 pm
hmm, I'll have to try this sometime, looks cool though
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 05:49:42 pm
I've been having fun with the process of signature making in general.
After the first couple, you can start messing around more and develop your own style and techniques.
Definitely need to spend some time gathering fractals and brushes though... they make a difference.
If you get more interested in this, I can give you the brushes I have and you can get plenty of good fractals and renders here (http://planetrenders.net/).
Unfortunately, you have to register there, but it doesn't take long.

I'll contact you on MSN and you can ask me anytime you need anything.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 23, 2009, 06:09:55 pm
kk, I'll probably start in a few days or so, exams are over tomorrow, so I'll have some free time
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 24, 2009, 12:15:59 am
wow nice tutorial. I generally just add portions of images together or modify old images I had and put them together. I'm not too much into advanced settings, though. I just prefer using more limited but easier to use softwares. Also easier to use softwares tend to take less time to start up on my slow PC :D

For Omnimaga banner, it will simply be putting edited images together and making sure they blend well (usually using gradient based transparency and the like)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 27, 2009, 04:27:03 pm
8. Knighty
(http://tehnyaar.com/knighty.png)

New one I made to help keep my mind off of what was going on last night.
Fighting. Police. Omnimaga leaving. No contact with my love. Etc.
Not going to go into detail about it.

New one coming by tonight... I think.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 27, 2009, 05:24:06 pm
wow that looks epic! I've noticed that art and stuff is really good at keeping your mind off of things...:/
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 27, 2009, 05:31:02 pm
Thanks! ^^

If anyone ever wants one of these sigs with just the name replaced with theirs then just ask.
Replacing names is easy. ;P
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on June 27, 2009, 05:38:27 pm
sweet! I think I'm just going to stick with the rose one for now (thanks again btw) but who knows I may ask for another in the future...
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on June 27, 2009, 05:43:36 pm
No problem!
The rose was fun to make actually. I had to jump through a couple loops and tried a LOT of new things for it.

Okay, I'm going to work on a new one now.
BBL.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 02, 2009, 05:21:40 pm
Well, made a new one while blasting techno in my ears and trying to feel better. (problems + sick)
(http://tehnyaar.com/aerotechno.png)
Experimenting with some new techniques and stuff.

Hint: There's an easter egg in it. Cookie to the first to point it out~
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 02, 2009, 05:55:18 pm
it says nyaar on his arm? or is it the nc on the other arm....
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 02, 2009, 05:57:02 pm
Haha, didn't even notice the "NC" but yeah, it's the 'Nyaar'.
Didn't make it all that difficult to spot. ;P

Have an 8-bit cookie (http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/super_mario_cookie.jpg).
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 02, 2009, 05:59:38 pm
YAY!
nom om om
/me  thinks cookie tastes good!
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 02, 2009, 09:56:50 pm
I made some modifications to the sig.
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 03, 2009, 08:24:14 am
oooh I like that background a lot and the eye effects :D
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 03, 2009, 12:52:10 pm
looking good there {AP}, love it!
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 06, 2009, 12:34:11 pm
Newest stuff.

10. Becky (Headphones)11. Becky12. Fading Scarlet
(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png/mtbecky.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png/mtbecky2.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png/fadingscarlet.png)
Not too happy with the first 2 here. Did them while half-asleep.
Also, it seems I'm naturally better at dark stuff.

As for the third... it's so simple, but I love it.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 06, 2009, 01:39:06 pm
the first two aren't that bad, but I love the third. You do seem to be better at the dark stuff :)
great job {AP}
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 06, 2009, 01:54:35 pm
On another note, I've been playing with an avatar and signature rotation code.

Here's an example set-up I'm using at another forum.

Avatar:Signature:
(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarav.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png)

Every time you refresh it shows a randomly picked avatar and signature (there's no combinations here, all random) from the folder they're stored in.
There's currently 6 avatars and 6 signatures. Um... cool?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 06, 2009, 01:58:56 pm
sweet!
what is the code? I want to steal it and start using it
EDIT: hmm, and this could work for me, I do have a website that I could use for hosting.....
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 06, 2009, 02:02:56 pm
Well, for it to work, you're going to need a webhost that allows PHP.
You'll also need to be able to create a folder there.

Also, the code isn't my work. Just something I picked up via google and have been putting to good use.
If you have the above stuff though, I can give you the code.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 06, 2009, 02:03:39 pm
yep and yep
so what is it?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 06, 2009, 02:17:05 pm
First, create a folder called "name.png" (replace name with whatever you want)
So, an example of my folder from above is: http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png

Next, you need to just upload the attached files (after unzipping them) and all images you want to rotate into that folder.
(http://tehnyaar.com/sigrotator.png)
From there, just use the folder's URL in the IMG tags and that's it.

Example:
Code: [Select]
[img]http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png[/img]
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 06, 2009, 03:20:41 pm
ok, I'm going to test this:
(http://empforum.freehostia.com/sigs.png)
EDIT: ok, I am requesting a new sig, something like what you did last time, but with a bloody dagger instead of a rose
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 06, 2009, 05:24:57 pm
Oooh nice AP, but PHP is not allowed in signatures for non-Admins I think. I'm not sure, but I think HTML is disabled for them. Also I'm unsure if this forum  allows PHP avatar. Idk how to enable them if it's even possible. If it is, I would be willing at one point to have my avatar rotate through old Omnimaga logos and the new one (3 in total, though)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 06, 2009, 06:11:56 pm
actually all the PHP is site side, so it will just generate the image over there and Omnimaga just grabs it, so it works, try refreshing a few times
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 06, 2009, 06:54:49 pm
ooh ok, I was sure you had to use a .php extension for the image. Seems good, then
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 06, 2009, 07:07:30 pm
yeah, I'm already using it for my sig. I'm rotating through 3 images, the one that {AP} made, and two versions of one that I made
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: cooliojazz on July 11, 2009, 12:30:51 am
Hey AP, can you make me one?  Something that says "Nerd".
Maybe throw in a rubiks cube, maybe a calculator?  Hmm?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 11, 2009, 09:21:18 am
Sure thing.
I'll get to it as soon as my schedule clears up a bit.
Lots of stuff has been going on recently. >.<
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: JoeyBelgier on July 12, 2009, 08:15:32 am
AP can you help me with something? :o
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 12, 2009, 08:23:39 am
Um... maybe.
Depends on what it is. ^^;
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: JoeyBelgier on July 12, 2009, 08:28:13 am
I have some pic's but I don't have folders to put them in xO
I need 3 :o
Can you plz make the folders for me? =o
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 12, 2009, 10:18:41 am
Sure, I guess.
Just give me the pictures.

Unfortunately, if I have to do it then you'll have to PM me every time you want me to update the folder.
Can't just give you access to my whole server. ;P
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: JoeyBelgier on July 12, 2009, 10:32:56 am
EDIT: I have sent them to [email protected] ^^
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 12, 2009, 10:52:39 am
Er... @yahoo.com ;P
I got them though.

Genius idea.
Here ya go~
(http://tehnyaar.com/L.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/M.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/R.png)
Code: [Select]
[img]http://tehnyaar.com/L.png[/img][img]http://tehnyaar.com/M.png[/img][img]http://tehnyaar.com/R.png[/img]
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: JoeyBelgier on July 12, 2009, 10:54:21 am
yeah, I meant yahoo ( pure automatism :p )

the pics aren't correct (yet) but that can wait xD
it's fun enough like this lOl

thx for hosting ^^

edit:I repaired and resended you the 7M part
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 12, 2009, 11:28:39 am
No problem~
Changed it out for you.

I'm noticing that the code isn't very random somehow...
It seems that the same combinations come up a lot.
I did get 777 once though. =P
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: JoeyBelgier on July 12, 2009, 11:32:24 am
Quote from: {AP} on July 12, 2009, 11:28:39 am
No problem~
Changed it out for you.

I'm noticing that the code isn't very random somehow...
It seems that the same combinations come up a lot.
I did get 777 once though. =P
Thanks
Yeah, I haven't won once yet xD
But that's ok, real slots aren't random either x]
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1079259/how_to_win_playing_slot_machines/
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 12, 2009, 11:44:34 am
Okay, editing the code slightly.
The left image won't work most of the time for a bit.

Sorry for the inconvenience. ^^

(EDIT: Finished. The code is now better randomized. Have even MORE fun. =P)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on July 12, 2009, 04:14:10 pm
sweet, too bad I only won once...
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: cooliojazz on July 12, 2009, 09:53:30 pm
Thanks AP. Don't care about how long it takes, I just think it's awesome your willing to do that.  (To making me a sig):)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on July 12, 2009, 09:58:30 pm
No problem at all.
Sorry about this wait.
I've been kinda sick (no idea how much I've said this... but yeah) for awhile so I'm kinda working REALLY slow on everything.
Only reason Necro's was done so fast is that I didn't have to make the pictures and the coding was 99% done already. =P

Anyway, hopefully I'll get to it soon. It's high on my to-do list. ^^
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: JoeyBelgier on July 13, 2009, 06:03:18 am
gee, I haven't said THX yet
so here I go :D TnX man ^^
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on July 13, 2009, 10:40:31 am
if u can can u make me one im tottally stumped on what pics i should do
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 22, 2009, 06:44:59 pm
Do you do animated sigs?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 25, 2009, 08:15:04 pm
For some reasons, most images on the first page no longer load, and NecroFuckk's sig images sometimes randomly don't, either
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Iambian on July 29, 2009, 01:17:58 pm
I'd like a sig, but that's if you're willing to go off on ...whatever.

In your mind, think of a red dragon with a peculiar "flavoring" associated with it. Happily ripping apart farm animals and then having those chunks delicately sautéed, then slathered in a sweet and sour sauce. The flavor is savored for as long as it takes for the farmers to notice what has happened to their animals, which takes a while since they're all out to market. When they get back, they have a hard time trying to figure out whether they should attempt to slay said dragon, or accept the offer to partake in the meal prepared by such a beast. A gentle"man" in some respects. Likes RAWR-ing atta random peoples. Magic? Can do every bit of it except getting a computer keyboard to float. I don't know what's up with those things, but they seem resistant to any levitation thingies put on it. Personality always has a seriousness in the undertone, but is sometimes random. My color is red, but I do enjoy a mix of blue as well. Who knows? I prefer darker colors.

What I described isn't what's going in, but it's the general *feel* of what I'd like. That's more important, and I'd love to see what you can come up with based on the feel of a description rather than the physical description of the object itself.

But if you really want something concrete, it should have a bottle of sweet and sour sauce in it. Slightly cherry-flavored.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on September 21, 2009, 04:45:57 pm
Sorry about any requests I haven't gotten to.
I haven't messed with Photoshop at all in quite some time.

Recently I was looking through my sigs and found a .psd that I never finished but was looking pretty good.
So... I finished it up and here's the result:
(http://tehnyaar.com/nyaarsig.png/minnie.png)

Well, I may continue doing some more soon. Maybe not... I've been horrible at managing my time so far. (hence my inactivity here)
We'll just have to wait and see.

Again, sorry for all the unanswered requests. I still know of them... just got to make time.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 21, 2009, 04:49:44 pm
oh wow nice again! Like this one a lot.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on September 21, 2009, 08:14:40 pm
Thank you!
I like this one a lot too. It involved the most creativity as far as what I did with the effects.
Original is this: (resized and cut for the comic)
(http://tehnyaar.com/ominnie.png)

So... as you can see, I did a lot to it.

Anyway, I think I'll try doing one of these requests now.
Had a friend over most of the day but I think I have enough time to get something done.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 21, 2009, 08:38:16 pm
Nice. Sometimes I got troubles removing an image from another. Usually the issue is transparency. I always end with some weird crappy white borders or something. It depends how complex the image is, though.

I'M still thinking about ideas for a new Omnimaga banner. I just need to capture more static images from our games and blend them all together in the background. However I still don't know for the rest of the banner...
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on September 21, 2009, 09:48:51 pm
If you get all of the pictures you want for it, I think I can put together something.

Also, I've been working on Cooliojazz's request.
I think I've come down to these two possibilities.
(http://tehnyaar.com/nerd.png)
(http://tehnyaar.com/nerd2.png)

If you want a different color/brightness, that's really easy to change. So just tell me.
Picking colors for others has always been a issue for me.

Also, placement of stuff takes no time either. =)

More importantly, if you don't like it at all, you can specific exactly what you want more.
I have no problems with doing so. Things like the picture you want in it, fonts, style, etc.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 21, 2009, 10:24:37 pm
nice ^^

EDIT: For the files, I would need to make some static images from the animated screenshots I got now.

This is weird. Back in the days, everyone complained about the lack of a working animated gif screenshoter for TI calc emulators. Today, we lack a static screenshot one o.O (printscreen does the job, but not as conveniently)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on September 21, 2009, 10:39:13 pm
lol, yeah I know what you mean
use lightscreen :D it's easier to clip it
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: cooliojazz on September 21, 2009, 11:30:03 pm
Lol, I think it looks awesome AP.  I love the background. 1 question, could you add a Rubiks cube behind the calc, chanage the Calculator cover to blue, and change the calc pic to this:
(http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af192/CoolioJazz/UPCubeCalc.jpg)
If not, thats okay too... but I mould love it if you could.  Thanks man!
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on September 22, 2009, 12:00:22 am
No problem!
Which one are you wanting me to change though?
First or second?

(I have to head to bed so I'll get this done tomorrow easy.)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: cooliojazz on September 22, 2009, 12:05:38 am
honestly, I can't tell a difference other than the second one is a bit lighter, so i'll go with the first one.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 22, 2009, 12:19:39 am
Second one is a bit more gray-ish
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on September 22, 2009, 04:08:35 pm
How's this?
I was unsure of whether to keep the cube it's normal colors or shades of blue... so I saved both.
(http://tehnyaar.com/nerd3.png)(http://tehnyaar.com/nerd4.png)

Once again, any little detail you'd like me to change, I'll be happy to. =D
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on September 22, 2009, 04:44:18 pm
*geekboy personnaly likes the first one the best


amazing now i need to get a idea for me ........

*geekboy goes on a bla..brainstorming run to figure out what he wants :)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on September 22, 2009, 09:29:52 pm
Working on a new one for fun.
It's up for grabs to anyone who wants it. All I have to do is change the text.
It feels a bit empty to me and I'm not too sure I'll be keeping the render or color... I just like the effect.
Well, here's what I've done so far.
(http://tehnyaar.com/heretic.png)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: cooliojazz on September 22, 2009, 09:39:33 pm
O.o, thats awesome!  I lek the first one better.  It make it look one of htose ice cubes.  Yay, thanks {AP}!
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on September 22, 2009, 09:58:12 pm
No problem!
Glad you like it! =D

Off to play with Photoshop more~
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 22, 2009, 11:30:25 pm
nice ^^
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Builderboy on September 23, 2009, 12:03:46 am
Hmmmm, I might ask for a signature or an Avatar at some point.  I will have to brainstorm what i would want though :P
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on September 23, 2009, 07:37:05 pm
hmm i like the heritic one as it is but do you think you could put a calc in for the gun and change the word to geek?    if you could that would be awsome :)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on September 29, 2009, 03:44:59 pm
Haven't had a lot of time to work on these at home (secret project), but I do get to do some at school.
Unfortunately, most sites are blocked and I keep forgetting to bring most of my materials so I work from limited resources.

Anyway, here's my newest:
(http://tehnyaar.com/bioshock.png)

Now... off to the doctors. Be back later.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on September 29, 2009, 07:17:41 pm
wow that looks great! I'd love to have a version of it, if you wouldn't mind
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on September 29, 2009, 09:03:28 pm
Not a problem at all.
(http://tehnyaar.com/bioeeems.png)
(I don't have the same font on this computer so I just used a different one. I don't like it as much but it works. If you want to wait a day, I'll change the name on the other computer.)
I never planned on using this sig anyway. I do love how it turned out though.

Little background: I've been teaching this kid in my Video Tech class how to make signatures.
He's a quick learner and all, but he decided to have a competition with me. He found a render that had both Big Daddies from Bioshock standing side-by-side and said that he'll do the one with the drill and I'll do the other. So... in that one class period, I made that.
All I had was Photoshop and the render too. I'm so proud of me.

Anyway... enjoy the sig~
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 29, 2009, 11:02:23 pm
Nice stuff AP

I also noticed that one uses the same fonts we used in the Omnimaga banner prior this one (the one that had Reuben and Link in it), I always liked these fonts
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: cooliojazz on September 29, 2009, 11:37:38 pm
Nice one AP.  You're great at those.
DJ, what font are you talking about. The first or the second?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 29, 2009, 11:58:00 pm
The second (that says Eeems). Actually it might be slightly different, but still very close

(http://www.omnimaga.org/oldsite/banner.gif)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on September 30, 2009, 06:00:35 pm
Thanks {AP}!
I like it as it is, but I don't know, I guess I'll find out which one I like more when you show me the other one
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 10, 2010, 12:28:14 pm
It's been awhile... but here's my newest signature. Unfortunately, I'm working on too big of a project to make anymore for people yet...
I'll get around to it eventually though. Unless you guys leave first. O.o

Anyway... here it be:
AvatarSignature
(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=506;type=avatar)(http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3706/nyaardtbsig.png)

It was really more of a way for my to make sure I still knew how to do stuff in photoshop. x.x
It's been awhile...
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on January 10, 2010, 12:54:48 pm
Wow! Looks great! You've definatly still got your Photoshop skills.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: ztrumpet on January 10, 2010, 01:05:07 pm
Wow, nice!  Will you have any Nyaar progress as well? :)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 10, 2010, 01:08:24 pm
Thanks guys. =)

About Nyaar... I forgot that I only told DJ about that... I'll explain in the appropriate topic.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 10, 2010, 02:30:33 pm
Hey AP welcome back. Awesome sig/avatar :)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 16, 2010, 02:09:09 pm
Another one. I realized I needed a Yu-Gi-Oh! based one. So... here it is.

AvatarSignature
(http://removedfromgame.com/RFGav.png)(http://removedfromgame.com/RFG.png)

Not my best work... but good enough. ^^
Tried a couple of new things and the text gave me so much trouble... I usually have a darker background so getting anything to look right was a pain.
Oh well, all-in-all a good learning experience.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on January 16, 2010, 04:41:34 pm
hmm nice {AP} although may i ask what monster is in it ??(i dont know that one)

edit : nvm accidentaly deleted my clip board X.x
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Eeems on January 16, 2010, 04:46:54 pm
(link is broken D: and I also fixed part of it :P)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 16, 2010, 04:49:15 pm
That would be the Banisher of the Radiance!
One of my favorite cards. =)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on January 16, 2010, 04:58:38 pm
ah never heard of him :/
 think you can make me a signature with solar flare dragon in it when u get the chance ??
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 16, 2010, 05:34:02 pm
I'm actually almost done. This one was WAY harder because I didn't have a render, I just used the picture here (http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Flare_Dragon).

Want a matching avatar? (also, what name do you want on it?)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on January 16, 2010, 06:03:52 pm
i would love a matching avatar :)

and for a name  GeekBoy   would be loved


ty so much XD



edit: whats a render ????
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: calc84maniac on January 16, 2010, 06:12:06 pm
Quote from: Geekboy1011 on January 16, 2010, 06:03:52 pm
edit: whats a render ????
It's when the background is cut out.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on January 16, 2010, 06:14:50 pm
ty calc84maniac never new that XD 
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 16, 2010, 06:44:19 pm
Calc84maniac is correct. More precisely, a render is a character, creature, item, etc without a background.
Used heavily in graphic design due to how easy it is to place anywhere you want and then manipulate.

As for the request... here ya go. (I had a bit too much fun with the fire. Sorry. ^^;)

AvatarSignature
(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/4231/solarflareav.png)(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/6091/solarflare.png)

If there's anything you want changed, just tell me. I'll see what I can do. =)


Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on January 16, 2010, 07:43:51 pm
i love it XD



ty so much

*geekboy now needs a account on rfg and im set XD
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 16, 2010, 08:04:02 pm
these looks very nice ^^
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: ztrumpet on January 16, 2010, 08:12:35 pm
Those look nice, although they seem a little too bright for me. (Remember that my opinion means absolutely nothing if you don't like it. :) )
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 16, 2010, 08:17:21 pm
Oh, they're WAY too bright for me. I never work with anything this bright.
Still... it was a nice set of attempts. Thought I'd try something new. I'm just too dark all the time. =P

(They look pretty good on darker skins though. The contrast just works.)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on January 16, 2010, 08:36:04 pm
i really like it and the only thing i think could be better is if it had a darker flame i guess (to add more contrast to it and such :) ) 

other than that i love it and for not working with bright colors alot its amazing XD
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 16, 2010, 09:15:48 pm
Here's a slightly darker flame for ya. Use whichever version you like. =P
(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6091/solarflare.png)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on January 16, 2010, 09:26:18 pm
omg i love it thats epic (yeah the dark flames make it look so much more amazing XD ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ....srry :P)

thank you :)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 16, 2010, 09:57:02 pm
Haha, no problem at all, mate.
I aim to please. =)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: TIfanx1999 on January 17, 2010, 07:43:35 am
You do really nice work. Maybe I'll pester you for one at some point. ;)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: ztrumpet on January 17, 2010, 10:28:15 am
Yes, indeede you do really nice work.  I'm glad that someone with such great skills will make avatars/sigs for others.  :)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 17, 2010, 11:06:51 am
Aww... thanks guys!
It's not just for others though, I gain a good deal of experience with each of these I do. =)

Just wish I always had time for requests. Geekboy was lucky because I already had Photoshop open when I saw his post. =P
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Geekboy1011 on January 17, 2010, 11:51:17 am
yay :)

best thing is my yu gi oh deck is fire based (well my irl one i mean :P )  so it will fit perfectly as well at rfg :)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 17, 2010, 11:52:39 am
What does RFG stands for?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: TIfanx1999 on January 17, 2010, 11:56:35 am
In Trading card games; Removed from game or Remove from game. In this case he's referring to AP's website "Removed from game". =D
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 17, 2010, 11:58:53 am
oh right yeah his site name x.x

Also AP you may want to fix your Skype description, because it says removedfromplay.com instead of removedfromgame.com, so it leads to a 404 not found message
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 17, 2010, 12:00:45 pm
Oh... thanks DJ. x.x
Was not thinking at all when I typed that...
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: jojojakes on January 18, 2010, 09:46:16 am
I don't feel like reading through 9 pages for the answer so I'll just ask.
{AP} how much time did you spend getting on this level of awesome signature making skillz? And how much time do you spent on a signature (like Geekboy's request)?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 18, 2010, 10:00:43 am
Hm... well... I start last summer... but I don't really make signatures daily or anything.
In fact, if you take a look at the first post, that's all I've ever done in the order I did it.

As for how long... it really depends, but in most cases it's about 2 hours for each one.
Some early ones were faster, but that's because I didn't experiment with them as much and just stopped at a certain point. (The Bioshock one is a RARE exception that I finished in 45 minutes and turned out great.)
A couple of them were much longer. Usually due to having to start over because of things not looking right or something. I'd say the longest one took about 6 hours.
Really though, a good half of the time is getting the signature made, and the other half is spent doing whatever I can to make it better.

Still, I definitely haven't been at this for very long in terms of days I've actually worked on signatures and I believe almost anyone with the right resources could do the same. (I had a tutorial and someone who helped teach me during the days of the first couple signatures. That teacher also gave me some brushes, fonts, and c4ds to help out. Oh... and time. You need some time on your hands.)
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: jojojakes on January 18, 2010, 10:33:47 am
Ok, thanks  ;D

I usually have time friday after school. So I'll give it a try then :)

Do you have a link to the tuturial you used?
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on January 18, 2010, 12:00:33 pm
Note, this is for Photoshop. Any version really. I think he used 7.
If you want the second one too, then I'll have to PM it since I don't have permission to post that one here.

Quote from: {AP} on June 23, 2009, 05:09:00 pm
Well, it's more complicated than that. Here's the main tutorial I used at the start.
From there, I just use it kind of as a guideline and apply other techniques taught to me and just learned from experience.

All credit for tutorial given to Jedge. A friend of mine from another community. ;P
(Yes, I have his permission to post it.)

(Image too big. Click the link.)
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs42/f/2009/137/9/3/Tutorial_by_xJedge.png
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: Builderboy on January 18, 2010, 12:13:36 pm
Once again, amazing work!  Props to the AP man!  If wasn't the type of person who doesn't like pics in sigs, I would ask you for one right now ^^
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 18, 2010, 02:46:32 pm
I bet I could maybe do such stuff in Photofiltre too, I would probably just need to find the equivalent functions really. I may give this a try one day so I can do a new site banner, altough my drawing skills aren't as great
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on August 06, 2010, 11:23:11 pm
Weee~ It's been awhile since I opened Photoshop. I really just did this because I had the idea in my head for a code and needed something to test it out with. This is just a test of some code that will be available on the userbar site sometime in the future. This uses a script to generate the picture one time and then after that it's just a normal picture so there's no scripts loading on every refresh. Also it has text centering. The centering is kinda buggy right now, but I hope to fix that later.

Anyway, all I have to do is go to a form, type in the new words for the bottom part, and it generates a picture. The beauty is that is keeps the original URL so you never have to update your profiles to change your signatures. (especially good if you use the same signature on a lot of different sites)

This feature isn't available to the public yet but now you know that there's progress.

The signature:
(http://userbars.removedfromgame.com/images/aps-sig-final.png)
Yeah, it's not my best work as far as the look of the signature... but again, I just did it quickly for the code.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 06, 2010, 11:31:15 pm
O.o nice, I like the code idea. It would allow people to quickly create sigs without having to ask people and stuff (although it's hard to beat people like you in sig image drawing since you are awesome at it :P). Will it use some weird URL code or will it use an actual image? It may be nice to have the later for forums with scripts disabled (although it may take more diskspace).

Also, I lost x.x
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: {AP} on August 06, 2010, 11:45:04 pm
It will work like the current userbar generator but instead of giving you the weird URL it will just be:
"userbars.removedfromgame.com/images/someimagename.png"
and it doesn't load any scripts while on pages. Instead, to update the userbar you will have to log in to my userbar site and update the information then it automatically updates the userbar.

Also, while logged in you will be able to make another userbar or update/delete one you already made.

First thing I have to do is make the log in system and then I can get everything else done quickly.
Also, I'm not sure yet if I'll make this work for signatures too. For now, just doing the userbars is easiest... but we'll see.
Title: Re: AP Signatures
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 07, 2010, 12:51:17 am
Aaah good. It should not take too much server load then in terms of script execution if several posts contains such sigs.

Good luck on the project!