Simple Siggie Tutorial 2

**Leesa** · 03-23-2009, 02:37 AM

Quoted from guildie forums again XD (There are some things I don't go into much detail because its included in this tutorial)

Originally Posted by Leesa

These r pic thumbs!! make sure to clicky on them :P

This teaches stroke, pattern overlay, drop shadow, pen tool, and some creative ways to make a cut off pic look good =D

Open a pic and select the pen tool (You also need to unlock the layer, I forgot to show that and accidently went to paths)

click and hold where u want to start, then drag it to make it fit.

k, so, u see that little square in the middle of the two "lines"? I want u to hold Alt and click on that. This will make it so that it starts a "new direction" ad doesn't curve around.

Keep doing that around the thing you want to cut out untill u reach the area where u started.

Connect the last thingy u made and the first thingy u made, and zoom out, now you'll see that a very thin line has appeared around the thing u cut out.

Now right click (while the pen tool is still selected i think) and click on "Make Selection"

Make it either 0 or 1 px

click ok and woah!! u get marching ants around the object!!! =D Thats exactly what you want. Copy it.

Open a new thingy and paste.

Use the pen tool again and delete the stuff "inside" (Like parts of the background showing through the hair or w/e)

Resize by click Ctrl+T while the layer with the object in it is selected. Hold down Shift and draging the "point" things in. (i haz bad vocab XD)

Now u see that its oddly cut off at the bottom, to make this look better get the Rounded Rectangular Tool.

Select a color.

Make a new layer. On that layer you: Click/hold/drag to make a nice sized rectangle.

Optional: For this pic, some of her hair was cut out, so what I did to make it just a bit better was to get the eraser tool and kinda erase part of strands of hair and try to make it look better.

Go to layer options for the rectangle layer by double clicking the layer thumb.

**Leesa** · 03-23-2009, 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by Leesa

Click drop shadow, Stroke, and Pattern Overlay. Play around with the options to make it how u like.

add some text

click on layer options for text, make sure u do not click on the layer thumb. That will let u edit the text itself. U can go to layer options also by clicking around where it says "layer *blahblahblah*, not on it or else it'll let u change the name of the layer.

Add a stroke/drop shadow. Make it look nie ;o

make a new layer under everything.

add soem brushes!! (the heart added near the text was made on a layer on top of everything)

YAY! Now just delete the white background and save it as a .png (alrdy taught u how ;D)

it fails but its only meant to teach u XD

Done x.x tell me if you need something to be explained or w/e

**cillia** · 03-23-2009, 02:42 AM

lol our guild forums have alot of siggy stuffs.. maybe i should make a siggie creator guild forum... :>

@.@ now if only i had that tool...

darn you outdated photoshop elements >.<;;

**Leesa** · 03-23-2009, 02:44 AM

Lol XD

Gaaaaaah I wish you had PS Elements 7 or sumthin x.x

Btw, the pen tool needs getting used to. It took me a while to be able to use and I'm still learning new things I'm able to do with it x3

**cillia** · 03-23-2009, 02:47 AM

i think i know how to use it... i think... because Sony Vegas 7.0 (and 8.0) have the masking thing and it uses the pen tool.. o.o so idk if they are the same.... x3

**Loveless** · 03-23-2009, 03:10 AM

Nice.

Trust me, once you get used to the pen tool that's all you'll be using.