BF2S Forums Well, I've made my first sig with a transparent background...

Last edited by siciliano732 (2007-06-22 11:42:24)

Step 7: Saving

Right now its time to save your work so it fits the bf2s forum and rules..

A while back we made that gray bf2s background.. we did that so we could see how it would look here while we were working on it..
Now its time to wave bye bye to that layer, cause we want it to be transparent on every surface, not just the bf2s forum.

so we make the background layer invisible, by removing the "eye" icon next to it:



Now go to File, Save As... and select the .PNG format.



The .png format is a loss less format, and its able to show transparency.

Look at the difference between .png and .jpg




The .jpg is compressed and has no transparency, and the picture quality has gone down.

There is a down side when using .png.. its tends to have a rather big file size compared to the .jpg format.

This is a bad guide, cause I found out that the .png has a file size of 155KB (and the forums allows a max file size of 150KB).

There are solutions out there for this problem. A problem which will haunt you from time to time.

You can maybe live without some effects (sometimes there can be too many!!).
You can corp the image down in size by cutting away the space we don't use anyways.



Select the Corp Tool and adjust the borders so your sig is still there (remember your shadows, if they get cut off, it might look stupid - just look at the tank dust on my current sig ) Double click, and the unnecessary space is cut away.

Unfortunately my sig was still at 153KB (and yes! mods do remove sigs for as small as 2KB violation.. its happened to me twice)

So I took the last resort, cutting the entire sig down in size!:



FINALLY!!!!!! 143KB you are good to go!

Step 8: Uploading and posting

The very final stage, which have nothing to do with either Photoshop or sig making..
Uploading it.

In the past I have used www.imageshack.us for my sig uploads. But I find it to be unstable and the upload is down from time to time. So I've started to use photobucket, and it is great!

But I'll show how its done with imageshack, because it requires no registration and its easy:

[img]http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z232/Z-trooper/Guides/step25.png[/imgl]

Select your image on your computer and host it...



Copy the bottom link.

Code:

[img]your_link_here[/img]

and put it into your personality here at the forum..



Now there is only one thing left to do when you are done with your spanking new sig!

Click [img=http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=27580]here[/img]

Ersguterjunge wrote:

Thanks. All get 1+.

BTW, my sig was deleted for being.. How can I say it?... Well, they didn't liked it

Here is it, my transparent background sig!!!1234

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s73/ … v1copy.png