Giveaway: M2:TW signatures.

**Snite** · 05-03-2007, 02:02

Excellent stuff. I'm tempted, but I would prefer to use my own creation were I to make one.

Very good work Sinan.

Snite

**Shahed** · 05-03-2007, 02:45

Thanks.

Well if you want to use or improve any that are here, please help yourself.
I'm learning Photoshop, what a great program. Am a newbie though and it takes a while to get grips.
There are also a lot of screenshots here which you can use:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=33

I'm using some, with permission.

Salute !

**Ars Moriendi** · 05-04-2007, 07:55

Excellent shots, Sinan. You have something of a pro photographer...

About your questions :

smaller size - open the image in IrfanView (you have it, don't you?) and save as jpg - it will open a dialog box letting you adjust the compression level, just drag the slider to the left, about 50-60 should do it for a 500x100 pic.
If that's not enough, remember that jpeg compression works best when :
- the image has large portions of a single color (so use "emptier" screenshots)
- there's fewer colors (adjust color tone until you get it)
- not many sharp edges (blur it a little)
You'll lose sharpness and quality, but eventually anything will fit in 10kb - see samples below.
The last image is one of yours, brought under 10 from 32kb. It doesn't look as good, but it's okay for a sig. The text isn't very readable, so you might want to use thicker/larger fonts and better contrast for the quotes.

borders - well just drag a rectangle in whatever color making sure the size fits the image and the fill is disabled ; for more elaborate borders, you could, for example, crop out the inside of an image, leaving just the outer 5-10 pixels on each side ; then place it over your picture setting the inside color (black, white, whatever) to be transparent. Or do something else entirely

EDIT : I forgot about his - I have a question of my own : Does anyone know how to get the camera lower than it's default minimum height ? Some screenshots need to be taken almost from the ground level.

NOTE : I don't plan to use the images below so if anyone wants them, they're yours. If you want to customize them, send me a message and I'll post a clean version (without text & my name on it)

**Shahed** · 05-04-2007, 13:30

Very impressive sigs. Thanks for the tips !
Can I have this one in clean version please ?

You can zoom a lot closer. You'd have to install the unofficial 1.20 and enable the movie cam. I've read some conflicting reports about how well it works. I don't have a link handy but will do a search and repost.

**sapi** · 05-04-2007, 13:42

@Sinan - sorry it took me a bit to reply - didn't notice the thread yesterday

If you want to add a border in photoshop, create a new layer, select all (ctrl+a), edit > stroke > outside (1px) should do it.

**Shahed** · 05-04-2007, 13:47

NP bro. Got it ! Thanks :D
I got a sig request in the meantime. I want to finish that one first as it's a "delivery".
After I finsih that I'll come back to that HRE sig and improve it.

**Ars Moriendi** · 05-04-2007, 19:43

@Sinan : I'll post that image in this thread as soon as I get home... which unfortunately could be a few days from now (I'm writing this from somebody else's computer).
Don't lose patience, I'll be back.