Unbelievably easy way to make really cool looking backgrounds for sigs

[MechaTC]

I was searching for a way to make a light colored "girly" background for my latest please teacher sig. It had to be very light colored and look good in pinks and purples. I was searching all over the internet until I found some incredibly easy tutorials to get some amazing results for backgrounds. These tutorials are fairly easy to follow if you already have the basics of photoshop down. You can get a very light background, a very dark background and everything in between.

here is a result I got in literally under 5 minutes of tinkering:
http://img203.exs.cx/img203/5953/untitled23sq.gif

I have three different colors going on at once which is something I had no idea how to do before and there is room for pretty much an infinite amount of colors (that would look really dumb though).

Sig BG Tutorial 1 (http://www.infinity-effect.com/forums/showthread.php?t=187&page=1)
Sig BG Tutorial 2 (http://s8.invisionfree.com/Infinite_Designs/index.php?showtopic=10)

Have fun!!!!!!!!!!!

[Silent Reality]

Sweet thanks for posting this Mecha TC *goes off and gets to work on a new sig*

[K'Dash]

Wow, nice find. Really helps with brushing too. Rep+ :)

[Sasukhan]

When i download new brushes, how to get them into photoshop?

[MechaTC]

When i download new brushes, how to get them into photoshop?

http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=17629

^that fully explains it.

[Jiraiya]

Cool, thanks a lot, MechaTC. +Rep.

[Sasukhan]

ah thanks :)

[darklide]

yay..you do mechatc!!!
Ive always been stuck on sigs...these tutorials will help me a lot...
thanks...
reps for u and when i finish doing my sig...i'll post it there

[Sasukhan]

What is colour blending?
The last part of the first tutorial you posted it says to apply colour blending...
help?

[Blackvoice]

my colors never come out right. someone help me...do you guys use the numbers or do you just adjust something else to make it vivrant.

[MechaTC]

What is colour blending?
The last part of the first tutorial you posted it says to apply colour blending...
help?


again, please go here http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=17629

That explains how to add color blending.

@ blackvoice. You just mess with the sliders till it looks vibrant. You might also want to take a look at the thread I posted for Sasukhan.

[Shinora]

w00t, awesome tutorials MechaTC, gotta try them out sometime. ^^ rep point for u ^^

[MechaTC]

So how did your experiments go?

[cloon]

i've got photoshop 6.0, do these tutorials apply to my version of photoshop?

[MechaTC]

i've got photoshop 6.0, do these tutorials apply to my version of photoshop?
Probably not, but you can still "adapt" to the tutorials if you're comfortable with your version.

[Neto]

the keys to all the different colors the the color balance
imgae>adjustment>color balance

[cloon]

can you load new brushes in photoshop 6.0 version

[kaitenjyuuken]

erm..? what is this thing?
what's it's use? i've been wondering since some of the gfxers' ones are not white but of other colours....

http://img79.exs.cx/img79/5500/n0zb.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Silent Reality]

The purple block is your primary color (the one your brushing with) and the white one is your secondary. You can switch color by pressing X.

[ShadowZ™]

Hmmm... i still understand. Please explain it to me easily