[TUT]How to make your sig "Pop Out"[GIMP|Beginner]

Very simple tutorial on how to make your signatures appear to be 3d or pop out on the screen instead of being a flat image.

Example:




Step 1:

Take if you use regular sig sizes like 400x130 then open up a canvas of about 500x300. Copy your sig and put it on a new layer. Delete the background layer.

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Step 2:

Duplicate the layer then layer it to the image size(lower layer).

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Step 3:

Move the layer a bit down and to the right. Do an alpha to selection on the layer and color it black(lower layer).

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Step 4:

Do a gaussian blur on the lower layer at about 29. Move it around til it looks about right for you.

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Optional

Since most sites have a signature size limit you don't want to have a 500x300 canvas for just a 400x130 sig. So this is what you gotta do to resize it.


Step 1: Merge all your visible layers together.

Step 2: Do an alpha to selection.

Image=>Crop to Selection


Original Product:




Final Product:





****NOTE**** You can play around your darkness levels for the back layer for different backgrounds of sites. If you noticed this site didn't have a very good background for what I did so I might have made the lower layer a bit darker and smaller. I could also have lowered the blur level and moved it a bit closer over the sig. If you want more examples PM me.

Good tut. I knew what this was, just didn't know how to do it. Learned somthing new today.

Nice. My gimp noobishness is astounding me. Can you do a tut on how to get a glossy finish on a picture?

Good job i always wondered how your tags appeared that way. thanks