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microman23
2nd of April 2008 (Wed), 20:15
How did you make your digital signature?

Just a nice font?
BradT0517
2nd of April 2008 (Wed), 20:34
I have read of people writing their name on paper then scanning it into their computer and changing it around as needed. I am sure somebody else can explain on this more. Then some people use a Wacom tablet (http://www.wacom.com/index2.cfm)and write their name in with that.
Az2Africa
2nd of April 2008 (Wed), 20:38
Not with MY handwriting!:lol:
BradT0517
2nd of April 2008 (Wed), 20:39
Not with MY handwriting!:lol:

I have that same exact problem!:oops:
microman23
2nd of April 2008 (Wed), 20:39
Anyone just use a fancy font?
BradT0517
2nd of April 2008 (Wed), 20:58
Anyone just use a fancy font?

There are probably some people that use fancy fonts. Now the font used will depend on your tastes.
welkcar
3rd of April 2008 (Thu), 09:18
If you want your real sig...

Scan it and bring into CS3
In the Edit menu choose Define Brush Preset
In the dialog box give it a name and save it.
It's now a selectable brush.
staceyann
4th of April 2008 (Fri), 00:30
If you want your real sig...

Scan it and bring into CS3
In the Edit menu choose Define Brush Preset
In the dialog box give it a name and save it.
It's now a selectable brush.


Can I do that with my Photoshop Elements 6.0?
philmar
4th of April 2008 (Fri), 12:01
If your handwriting is terrible there are several free handwriting fonts available.
http://www.1001freefonts.com/handwriting-fonts.htm
microman23
4th of April 2008 (Fri), 12:09
If your handwriting is terrible there are several free handwriting fonts available.
http://www.1001freefonts.com/handwriting-fonts.htm

THANKS!!! awesome!
Mark1
4th of April 2008 (Fri), 13:05
Funny how I found this thread.... not 10 minutes ago I made a new one. It will be just for forums. More of a watermark than sig.

I have over 700 fonts on my computer.... it took forever to pick one the first time. Now I just change them as I get bored with them. They are not a logo, so changing is not a problem. I get my fonts at www.acidfonts.com .

You can do as suggested above and make the sig a brush. I need to do that. I only went so far as to make it a layer I saved by it self and add it when done editing the photo.

In GIMP you just...
Open new....pick a size easy to work on. You will scale it later when you add it to the pic anyway
Ad text in whatever font you want.
add alpha
deleate background
save as a .png to preserve the transparency.

You will be able to color it and scale it however you want. Photo sop is just as easy im sure. Im just faster in GIMP as I have used it a lot longer. And As it is a .png you can use it in just about any editor.
arkansasbowhunter
4th of April 2008 (Fri), 16:18
can you use these fonts in cs3? if so how do you do that?
galahad
4th of April 2008 (Fri), 16:46
Just copy the font's .ttf file to the window fonts directory WINDOWS\Fonts.
Open Photoshop and you can now select it as one of the fonts.
Mark1
4th of April 2008 (Fri), 19:52
To install new fonts.... make a new folder on the desktop. put all your new fonts in it ( unzipped). Go to the windows folder, in it, is the fonts folder. open it. In one of the menus there will be a "add new font" option. Just navigate to the new folder and select all. after its done you can delete the folder on the desktop. When windows is restarted they will be ready for use in any program.
arkansasbowhunter
4th of April 2008 (Fri), 21:15
cool, thanks for the info. I will try to add some this weekend to my computer.
arkansasbowhunter
5th of April 2008 (Sat), 17:20
okay I put them into my font folder but when I open cs3 and use the text, I don't see the new fonts that installed. Am I doing something wrong?
galahad
5th of April 2008 (Sat), 18:59
make sure that that the fonts .ttf are in the \WINDOWS\Fonts and not in another directory inside the fonts folder.
rooeey
6th of April 2008 (Sun), 02:30
I would like to know also if this can be done in elelments 6



Can I do that with my Photoshop Elements 6.0?
Mark1
6th of April 2008 (Sun), 16:44
You have to restart the computer after the fonts are installed. If they are not there they got put in the wrong place. Windows has tis own tutorial in the help section.

or read this....
http://www.myfonts.com/support/help_install_win.html

Almost any photo editor can put fonts on a pic. E6 being the newest , is actually quite good at inserting fonts. However if you are going to use it a lot...do as suggested above and create a brush out of it so it is very easily inserted at will.
coondogg
11th of April 2009 (Sat), 01:25
Can I do that with my Photoshop Elements 6.0?

+1...

I can Define Brush but in Elements you don't have a brush tool! Or I can't find it, lol...
coondogg
11th of April 2009 (Sat), 01:54
ok, I got it...

Only too me 3 hours, lol...

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb276/coondogg15210/Z00%204-10-09/IMG_5691_edited-1-1.jpg
Dooms_day
11th of April 2009 (Sat), 17:28
i use my wacom tablet to draw a thin inline of my signature, and the pen tool (vector based) and sort of edit my own handwriting to look slightly more like caligraphy (some strokes are wider than others) and save that as a brush for later!
easyrider2697
19th of April 2009 (Sun), 20:08
+1...

I can Define Brush but in Elements you don't have a brush tool! Or I can't find it, lol...


I can do it in Elements 2.0 so I feel quite sure you can in 6.0 and you do have a brush tool in the tool bar ( 2 of them should be there) see highlighted below.

Here is a some more help with the topic...came in helpful for me.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=678447&highlight=watermark
coondogg
23rd of April 2009 (Thu), 06:39
ok, I got it...

Only too me 3 hours, lol...

It was hidden right in front of me, lol...