Sig Requests

**Kromoh** · 03-13-2008 06:24 AM

Haha this reminds me I have a folder on my pc filled with Mes avys and sigs. I guess they reproduce on their own there.

btw mes I made the red signature you asked but you never replied lol

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Tomorow, free afternoon. Then I'll try my artistic rungs on a new sig for Mes. For now, let's behold the amusement of different coloured sigs. They're like different coloured Yoshis xD

**Taosaur** · 03-13-2008 07:12 AM

Anyone feel up to a Taosaur sig? Anything incorporating maybe a dinosaur image (not a raptor, but maybe a t-rex or one of the big herbivores) with some kind of black/white yin-and-yang theme would be great.

Maybe incorporate any one of these quotes:

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Alan Watts

God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Alan Watts

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu

Alternately, something with a lizard by a roadside and the text: Taosaur Lizard of the Way.

**tyrantt23** · 03-13-2008 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by Kromoh

Haha this reminds me I have a folder on my pc filled with Mes avys and sigs. I guess they reproduce on their own there.

btw mes I made the red signature you asked but you never replied lol

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Tomorow, free afternoon. Then I'll try my artistic rungs on a new sig for Mes. For now, let's behold the amusement of different coloured sigs. They're like different coloured Yoshis xD

hahaha... different colored Yoshis.

I was thinking more like a rainbow, but I like the Yoshi analogy.

ps. How did you do to change the color of just "Mes Tarrant" and the fairy clothing? I assume you're using photoshop, but would it be similar on GIMP? And yes... I'm a complete newb on these picture applications.

**Terrorhawker** · 03-13-2008 12:25 PM

GIMP?
That's not nearly as good as Photoshop.

Get Photoshop!

**Mes Tarrant** · 03-13-2008 02:32 PM

Photoshop costs money. GIMP free!

Thanks Kromoh!!

Yeah I got that PM, but at that time I was I think already contemplating getting rid of the avvy all together. Meh. But thanks! And yeah I already have these color changed ones saved on my computer. Hehe I had forgotten what a variety you gave me!

Thanks tyrantt!!

Omg that last one is beautiful.. brings a tear to my eye.

Edit: Whoa, 3

's in one post. Ohhh wait, that makes 4. I must really like this smiley or something.

**TheKingOfGlass** · 03-13-2008 04:16 PM

kromoh, I love the silver one it's gorgeous

**Man of Steel** · 03-13-2008 06:41 PM

I'll see what I can work up for Mes and Taosaur, if I have any free time. I still have to finish a story. Got three pages to write tonight.

**tyrantt23** · 03-13-2008 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Photoshop costs money. GIMP free!

Well, I actually have an erm... free copy of photoshop.

It's under my Windows OS though, and I've been trying to make the switch to Linux more permanent lately. I didn't want to boot unto Windows just to play around with photoshop, so I just played around with GIMP instead.

Originally Posted by Terrorhawker

GIMP?
That's not nearly as good as Photoshop.
Get Photoshop!

I've actually read that GIMP can be just as powerful as photoshop. The only difference is that the interface might be a little bit different. According to what I read, most people who are used to photoshop don't like GIMP because it's a bit foreign to them, a little bit different to work on. Feature-wise, though, GIMP is just as rich as photoshop... according to what I read.

I'm a newbie on both, so take my words with a grain of salt.

**Kromoh** · 03-13-2008 08:18 PM

tyrrant, I'll explain it simple:

First, you select only the bits that you wanna change. Then, you invert the selection, and copy those onto a new layer. You will have:

- pic with holes on the parts that you want changed
- base pic

Then, you create a colour adjust layer, just above the base layer. That way, it will change the colour of the whole pic, but then the topmost layer will correct the parts that you don't want changed:

- layer to mask what you don't want changed
- colour adjusting layer, making the fairy the way you want it to, but messing up the rest
- base pic: pink fairy, black background

If you want to e.g. change the hair to a set of colour and the dress to another one, there may be various ways of doing it. But I myself recommend doing it in two steps. First you do the step above with the dress, save the image into one layer, and then do the same process to adjust the hair.

Note that this is surely not the only way of doing it. Things like this are like a language: there are thousand ways of saying the same thing. You just need to know a bit of gammar and be creative.