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Alright im here to teach you the basics of signature making.

1. Lighting
Lighting is a pretty important factor in signature making, it gives the signature a realistic look.

How to locate lighting
Its very common for people to get confused and put the lighting coming in through the wrong side of the signature. To locate where the lighting is needed, you need to identify what part of the render or focal is the brightest, some renders dont have a brighter part, in those cases you can always use the dodge and burn tool to create a bright part and a dark part

How to create Lighting
To create lighting you will want to use a soft brush, and simply brush around with the layer mode in soft lighting.

2. Flow
Now personally i think the most important thing after depth is flow. Flow is obtained by making all the effects go in the same direction.

How to create Flow
Flow can be created by identifying where the renders actions or movements are headed too if the render is going from bottom left to top right, you might want to do the same with the effects...

3. Depth
Whats depth
Depth gives us a feeling of how far away an object is and it a visual ability to perceive the world in three dimensions.

how to create depth
Well depth can be obtained with two key factors
-Background Blurring
-Light source
By blurring the background you give the signature that 3D effect.
Now depth can be enhanced with some dodging and burning
example of depth: You must login or register to view this content.

4. Text
Let me start off by saying that text isn't always necessary, you can leave a signature as it is. But the thing is you can't just slap on text, it needs to make sense.

How to place text
Well there isn't really a spot where text HAS TO GO IN but you always want to make it so the text doesn't mess with the flow of the signature. You can check out Caspa's tutorial for more info

Other Tips on text
Well this is a pretty small part but if you can't get the text to blend, you can always use clipping masks.

5. Border
Ok, border is what messes up people the most when they make signatures. Most people slap on a border to their signatures, what they don't know that borders, as well as text can make and break a signature. The problem with bad borders is that it messes with the signatures depth.

How to determine if border should be added
Well there isn't really a way to determine if a border should be added, its more of a thing that comes with experience, when you master all three basic key factors of signature making, you will know if border should be added

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thank the topic and nominate hahaha jk but feedback is appreciated

well there you go those are the basics of signature of making, by applying those concepts to your signatures, you will achieve your dream tags

You must login or register to view this content. Kinda like that "/

Oh this is not a tutorial for people to go on read word for word and create a certain tag with it, i was trying to highlight the most important factors of signature making so people can apply this concepts to every day signature making

Thanks but what program do you use?

Think he uses gimp.

gimp but this isn't a tutorial for a certain program

Dope i really like your sigs and all but some of this is copy and paste :/

dude the depth picture is copy and paste thats all

thanks. ;-]

That sig is dope bro , I like it alot! Gonna try an make one now.