Making a signature for your photos

[csm328]

I see a lot of the pro's on here have awesome signatutres (done with text and freehand with tablets) and I was wondering if someone would be able to provide a quick 'how to' with a program like CS2, Lightroom etc.

[Gungnir]

Create a custom brush :)

Design your signature and crop it. (Make it as big as you're ever likely to need plus a bit so you never lose quality, you'll be able to resize, change opacity etc the same as with other brushes).

Edit - Define Brush Preset - Give it a name.

It'll now appear at the bottom of the Brushes menu.

Hope this helps :)

[samckitt]

I did it differently. I took a piece of printer paper & signed my name a bunch of times until I got one that I liked. Then I scanned the page into a jpeg or tif file. open the file in Photoshop & then selected the signature & copied it to a new image. Then just copy & paste that onto my photo.

[csm328]

both great suggestions. thanks.

[coreypolis]

russel brown ahs a tutorial on it.

Lightroom makes it ridiculously easy, but not as customizable

Lots of ways of doing it, I just did an action that resizes the image, adds the border, places the logo constrains the image to a certain pixel count and saves

[csm328]

Hi there Corey. Nice to hear from you. I have Lightroom and it has me stumped. I can make a sig under the 'print' tab and put it where I want it but, like you, I want to be able to add it to the photo with a border etc before I print. I'll get my head around it.

With your help we've got our photog for the wedding. We'll be making our own album so I'll have it figured out by then :)

[sonydiablo]

Hi csm328, I have the same problem that I'm trying to get over as well. I want to make a signature and border on my photo's and export them before printing. Any ideas from anyone?

[MikeMcL]

Use a sharpie and a piece of computer paper. take a picture of your sig, boost contrast, select it with the wand and cut it out. define it as a custom brush, and stamp it on another layer. use blending modes and an overlay to make it exactly how you want... and different anytime you wish.

[MikeMcL]

With the sharpie photo method, you'll even get the look and texture of a real sig, i love it.