Hey guys,

As most of you know, I downloaded Photoshop's trial the other day and have been playin around with it. Anyway, I am having a hard time figuring out the text options. I saw one sig that I think Juice made where some of the text was flashing? Also I'm having trouble just making the text fit in to the whole scheme of the sig, ya know? It's hard to get the color schemes going and getting a good glare from the text, so any suggestions would be great.

Also, I was wondering about some background changes. Is there a way to do a black & white background of an image? And how can I make an image transparent?
Like this is one of my favorite sigs. The colors are great and the logos are transparent.

Again, any help for a beginner would be much appreciated.

When you're working on a sig, you will have a layers section in the bottom right of the window. Click on the layer of one of your images and above it you'll see it says "normal". Click that and there's about 20 different options to change the coloring of it.

Opacity is how you make it transparent. It should be set at 100%. Just move the slider down a bit till you get it where you want it.

Black and white is one of the tabs up top. Go to the "Image" tab and go down to "adjustments" I think. There you will find a black and white option.

I think for that juice made the text on 0% opacity but with a stroke on a different setting.
I dont know how it flashes.
you need to rasterize the text to put blending options on

I'm using Photoshop CS3 at work, CS2 at home. Both have an animation feature that allowed me to create the flashing text. It's hard to have animation and keep it under 75kb though, that sig had a simple animation so it worked.

You can make images Black and White several ways, but I go to the Hue/Saturation window under Image>Adjustments. Turn the Saturation down 100% and it'll be B&W. From the same window, you can also colorize an image, giving it a particular hue throughout by clicking on the colorize button and adjusting the hue.

If you have any questions, I can take screen captures and show you exactly what I mean.

Other than that, there's plenty of tutorials out there online. Just google search: Photoshop tutorial and w/e you're trying to accomplish.

Or keep coming here, I have no problem helping people out.

Hey Juice -




Could you shed some light on how you make the outlines of the players like that? Do you use a white stroke and then blur it a bit?

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Originally posted by Tippmann98:
Hey Juice -




Could you shed some light on how you make the outlines of the players like that? Do you use a white stroke and then blur it a bit?

It looks to me like he used outer glow and lowered opacity, increased size and changed the colour

You can increase size of the outer glow? I never knew that. Just goes to show you how much there is to discover with Photoshop.

yeah, click on the word instead of the box when you select the blending option, it brings up a menu for the effect

Yeah, each box that you can click on in the layer styles window has a separate sub-menu, where you can adjust a miriad of options, from size to opacity, color, wether or not the glow is a color or the stroke is a gradient, etc.

But yeah, it's just a white outer glow set on screen, which is the default setting.

Alright cool. Thanks guys!

can anybody give me a light effects lesson?

What do you need to know? Just mess around and find the best spot for an effect.

i did but its tough.
is there any way to have a spotlight without darkening the rest of the layer?

I'm not sure. I don't really mess around with it too much. I just keep whatever setting it is on.

i was almost sure that you had used lighting effects in some of your sigs

You're right I do. What I meant is I just select a lighting effect and use it. I don't change up the effect much at all. Just use the default setting of each lighting effect until you get used to it.

but whenever i do that, the rest of the sig goes dark

If you only want a certain layer to do it then select that layer. Like a logo, select the layer that the logo is on and use an effect. It'll only do it for the layer that is selected.

yeah, the rest of the layer goes dark though, thats what i meant earlier