Former official sig image post

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  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
  • DeadalouSDeadalouS Join Date: 2002-10-19 Member: 1553Members
    Yo dudes.. anyone want to make me a sig n avatar... i think the last request kinda drowned... <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->
  • GingerGinger Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1043Members
    hey Dead dont you think we should get like a clan sig like the AUS clan have...  <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->
  • RazorKRazorK Join Date: 2002-08-02 Member: 1053Members
    Hey Carbon, nice sig... sorry haven't been looking at the artwork forums too much...

    I guess I'm only good as a sketcher... Can't use photoshop if my life depended on it...
  • MouseMouse The Lighter Side of Pessimism Join Date: 2002-03-02 Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    here dragonsblade
    <img src="http://img.ranchoweb.com/images/ps_mouse/dragonsword-avatar.jpg" border="0">
  • JammerJammer Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 728Members, Constellation
    I'd like a sig image please! :-) NS Marine Themed. I'd be much obliged.
  • DunsbyDunsby Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1042Awaiting Authorization
    I still need a sig, mine is fine at the moment just im bored of it. I dont mind what it is as long as its 1337 <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
  • BTS_SquirrelBTS_Squirrel Join Date: 2002-09-27 Member: 1351Members
    hey guys. im kinda bummed about my total lack of photoshop skills and or... the program. so if someone could do me a favor and gimme some kind of sweet avatar and sig... that would be sweet. thanks
  • DeadalouSDeadalouS Join Date: 2002-10-19 Member: 1553Members
    hmm i tried but it didnt turn out to well :/
  • Ghetto_RiceGhetto_Rice Join Date: 2002-07-01 Member: 854Members
    This is my first attempt at imageready for my sig so tell me what you think and what I should change or whatever.

    and i know the file size is too big but i need someone to tell me how to downsize the quality in imageready when you save it.
    <img src="http://ghettorice.tripod.ca/lcd-sig-animated.gif" border="0">
  • chubbystevechubbysteve Join Date: 2002-10-14 Member: 1496Members, Constellation
    Mmm..mmm.. just trying to cook up a good avatar for myself, see what people think, is it any good? and, when can I get rid of the sig image I once thought was good, right after this post methinks:

    <img src="http://www.parkway-capital.com/steve/sigs/avatar.gif" border="0">
    <img src="http://www.parkway-capital.com/steve/sigs/avatar2.gif" border="0">
  • chubbystevechubbysteve Join Date: 2002-10-14 Member: 1496Members, Constellation
    Wicked attempt ghetto:rice.

    I recon you should just have it as a solid image (not animated), and then the file size will drop surely.
  • MotherGooseMotherGoose Join Date: 2002-03-12 Member: 308Members, Constellation
    trying something.......
  • MotherGooseMotherGoose Join Date: 2002-03-12 Member: 308Members, Constellation
  • Ghetto_RiceGhetto_Rice Join Date: 2002-07-01 Member: 854Members
    Why thank you chubbysteve but I just realized that I dont really like it so I will be giving it away to anyone who wants it with their name on it, I want something more simplistic and artsy fartsy.



    Ok here it is but the file size is way tooo big, will someone like the almighty Fam, Alius, and others please help me out.
    <img src="http://ghettorice.tripod.ca/New-sig-low-qual.gif" border="0">
  • alius42alius42 Join Date: 2002-07-23 Member: 987Members
    Bah! I wrote a long drawn out answer but accidently closed the window.

    To sum it up, seperate the blurred sections from the background and keep it to as few layers as possible. You have 17 layers in your sig. Many of them are exact copies of each other. Keep the text and that object you blur on seperate layers and merge them when possible. Keep to the lowest number of layers as you can. Keep the layers given to the background low as well, merging when you can. Hope that helps. Look at my file if you need help understanding what I mean, I think it's either in this post or the banner one. Good luck!
  • C0nan_The_LibrarianC0nan_The_Librarian Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1039Members
    How the hell do you make these things so good! All I can do in photoshop is pixelating clouds!!!
    /me goes to the corner and cries

    Can I have some beginner tutorials?
  • Ghetto_RiceGhetto_Rice Join Date: 2002-07-01 Member: 854Members
    Hmm I kinda understand, mine is only 11 layers, with 17 frames and its still over 200kb, where as your has 20 layers and its only around 34kb? Hmm this is confusing.


    On a side note did u like the sig tho?



    EDIT: Conan see this ---> <a href="http://www.thewebmachine.com" target="_blank">Text Fx and Backgrounds</a>

    <a href="http://www.psworkshop.net" target="_blank">Everything Else Adobe</a>
  • C0nan_The_LibrarianC0nan_The_Librarian Join Date: 2002-07-31 Member: 1039Members
    Yes actually I personally think it is awsome, and im going to some day figure out how to make sigs like that.
  • Ghetto_RiceGhetto_Rice Join Date: 2002-07-01 Member: 854Members
    Thank you Conan that makes me feel phuzzy <!--emo&:0--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'><!--endemo--> , and did the links help you out any?



    BTW: I need a little more explaining or for someone like Fam or Alius to take my psd and smack me in the face with a fix to get my sig down in size. <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
  • Carbon14Carbon14 Join Date: 2002-07-29 Member: 1025Members, Retired Developer
    As far as I can tell GIF images, which is what I use on all of my animated sigs, have a compression system where it only refreshes the needed pixels. What I mean is that if you create a GIF image and only move 1 pixel in each frame you can make a 100 frames, because for the majority the image is remaining the same, and therefore very little extra data needs to be stored.

    However if the image has a large area of changing pixels, you are almost saving the entire picture for every new frame, meaning that the file size will increase hugely for each frame. Hope you understand all of that <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

    As for the compression, in my ImageReady to the top right of the screen there ire options such as the color depth, lossey and compression type.
  • BTS_SquirrelBTS_Squirrel Join Date: 2002-09-27 Member: 1351Members
    guys? anyone?

    i think my last post got lost.

    im currently experimenting with the photoshop trial version, but if anyone could get me a sig n avatar, they would be in my "A" book forever.
  • Ghetto_RiceGhetto_Rice Join Date: 2002-07-01 Member: 854Members
    Soon BTS soon, I just gotta figure something out.


    <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo--> no sorry I dont really understand, I did manage to get the gif down to 85 from 220 because i changed the lossynes but the immage didnt that clear anymore. Hmmmm I really dont understand what to do to get my image size down.
  • alius42alius42 Join Date: 2002-07-23 Member: 987Members
    Like I said in the pm just send me the psd and I would be glad to help. I'm not exactly great at explaining things.
  • SchutzstaffelSchutzstaffel Join Date: 2002-10-24 Member: 1581Members
    Hey first post <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo--> I just wanna see if my sig works right
  • Ghetto_RiceGhetto_Rice Join Date: 2002-07-01 Member: 854Members
    Sorry to see that it doesnt work, and as to your first post CONGRATS and welcom to the forums and very friendly NS community
  • alius42alius42 Join Date: 2002-07-23 Member: 987Members
    Hmm, it works for me. Looks good too.
  • GingerGinger Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1043Members
    i can see a sig BUT i dont think it is working right coz your name is Schutzstaffel and on the sig it is Solid Snake?  <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
  • DunsbyDunsby Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1042Awaiting Authorization
    Solid i think your sig is out of size.. check page one to see the sizes please.
  • dragonsbladedragonsblade Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1104Members
    i am sooo very happy i found my old sig and avatar on a foppy that fell behind my computer yay



    VERY HAPPY DAY

    mouse thanks for your effort thou i might use those sigs someother time
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