Questions on custom signature

[LFaluade]

So I am working on doing a custom signature for one of my friends website. She signed a piece of paper and scanned it into the computer but its a low res image. Is there anything I can do to make this look any better or is there no hope here? Can I use CS3 to improve the quality? Any tips you guys have out there? I am kinda stuck. Thanks.

[FlyingPhotog]

Have you tried to make it a brush?

I did that with my sig and I have much better scaleability than when it was just an image I'd copy and paste over a photo.

[LFaluade]

Have you tried to make it a brush?

I did that with my sig and I have much better scaleability than when it was just an image I'd copy and paste over a photo.


Do you mean do the image using a brush instead of scanning the image?

[LFaluade]

I guess I'd need a Wacom tablet to get it precisely..........

[bieber]

Look any better? Just ran it over with the calligraphy brush in Inkscape

[Hikin Mike]

Sign her signature again. Before you scan it, bump the resolution to 300ppi or more. Scan it. Now you have a high-resolution signature and now you can make a brush on Photoshop.

[LFaluade]

Look any better? Just ran it over with the calligraphy brush in Inkscape

It does look a whole lot better, thanks. Can I do that with CS3? Thanks again!

[FlyingPhotog]

Do you mean do the image using a brush instead of scanning the image?

No, I meant make a custom brush shape out of the entire signature...

Sounds like you're on the right path.

Good Luck

[Over Actor]

Here in a few minutes I'll load it into in design. To make it a vector image then make it big... lik ebigger than you would ever use and make it a photo shop image and send it to you so you can shrink it down in high res. or take a nice camera and s nap a high res photo of the picture and put it in cs3

[AdamLewis]

Here in a few minutes I'll load it into in design. To make it a vector image then make it big... lik ebigger than you would ever use and make it a photo shop image and send it to you so you can shrink it down in high res. or take a nice camera and s nap a high res photo of the picture and put it in cs3

I was just going to say that if you rasterized it you could resize it to anything you wanted.

[bieber]

It does look a whole lot better, thanks. Can I do that with CS3? Thanks again!

No, but it's a quick fix with InkScape, a free vector graphics program. Just Google it, you can download and use it if you want

[Sledhed]

I was just going to say that if you rasterized it you could resize it to anything you wanted.

You have that backwards Adam, you want it as a vectored image not a rasterized image. A vector you can scale to any size.

[AdamLewis]

You have that backwards Adam, you want it as a vectored image not a rasterized image. A vector you can scale to any size.

:o Right. I was just testing you guys ;)

[bwolford]

Convert it to a path and then you can do anything you want with it. Not sure PS can do that, but Illustrator can.

[figmented]

illustrator live trace, works better on better images, but that one is possibly usable.

[laurielozano]

So I am working on doing a custom signature for one of my friends website. She signed a piece of paper and scanned it into the computer but its a low res image.

Isn't it a security risk to have your signature on a website like that? Whats to keep an identity theif from stealing it and using it for who knows what? I dunno. I wouldnt post my signature like that on a website. I'd use a font that looks like handwriting to create the 'custom signature' so that its not my ACTUAL signature.
Just my 2 cents.

[bieber]

Isn't it a security risk to have your signature on a website like that? Whats to keep an identity theif from stealing it and using it for who knows what? I dunno. I wouldnt post my signature like that on a website. I'd use a font that looks like handwriting to create the 'custom signature' so that its not my ACTUAL signature.
Just my 2 cents.

Not really an issue at all. The sad fact is that no one ever checks the signatures on things like checks written anyways. So, since your signature doesn't carry any legal weight unless you sign it, it's pretty much a nonissue...