Ｄｉｇｉｔａｌｌｙ Ｄｉｓｔｉｎｃｔ: Signature Tutorial Thread

[Dreamie]

Try softer colors like this.

[Erwin Smith]

This is in referral to the above, and to all relating questions as to "Signature blocks"

Last night, my 4am brain decided to help an awesome person out by writing out a step by step guide as to how I organize and create my signatures. I do it with a lot of work and passion, and it seems to take a long time to do but in the end it works and it can be worth it.

This normally eliminates how styles work and being confused and having "Signature blocks" and other things.
This isn't really a tutorial as such, more of something to be seen as some sort of check list.
*Note: The order of this can change depending on what signature you have, whether it is for you or commissioned and how you operate.



1. Select which characters you are going to use. If they are apart of a canon universe like Attack on Titan, or a band or something else, be sure to try and get images of the character that match their personality as much as possible. This will help you later on with the overall arrangement of the signature. If you are using animals, it is best to try and represent that animal for their traits if you can. Using pink colours for a grey wolf doesn't tend to work, so it is best to illustrate each animal's trait as best you can for a better finish.
2. Select an appropiate colour theme that would be able to show off the character a little more. As mentioned above, using colours that are off doesn't sell the image very well and it ends up feeling off and somewhat out of place (Currently, my Feb month's signature shows that Levi can get down and dirty when it comes to the time and place where it is appropriate, all of the finer details are inside, but on the other-side, he can be dirty. (Like how the coding is arranged)) There is a chart out the front of the tutorial thread with resources that can help you.
(Optional step 2.5
Get some quotes or inspirational text in your signature, this can be used to cover space or something else. A good way to get a quote is that if you are doing a signature based on a character, find a quote that suits that character. Or you can look into what you like, for instance the Harry Potter books and find a quite from one of the books that fit the character. LOOK INTO YOUR INTERESTS THIS WILL HELP YOU A TON.)
3. Sketch out a layout on paper or some form of drawing medium you use. This way you have a vague idea of what your signature will look like by the end. Or at least there is a basic idea of how you want it arranged.
4. Make sure you have all links and images you wish to use. It is no use in having an signature idea and then not being able to do it.(This can be rule number 1 as well simply because the images can be used to influence the layout of your signature. For me, I make an idea then look for resource)
5. Once your organization is done, you are best to work in this order:
Put all still images into the signature where you have destined them to be > Do all Typography (Words and quotes and crap) on the signature > Gifs and effects.
6. If you feel as if it is empty, add some themes into it. (For instance, my current sig I added dust clouds in there)

And that is all you need to do, for the image manipulation part. You can follow the same sort of scheme to for the coding part if you wish.



With that said. Guys. There is spam here. Can we stop that please?

[Dylan Klebold]

People keep saying that the colors on my siggy are 'too bright and hurt my eyes'. When I look at them, they're perfectly fine and I don't have to start screaming, close my eyes and rate it a 2 (on the 'rate the avatar and signature above' thread). If people are going to keep complaining, what colors would suit?

They are a bit too bright, may I recommend using #800000 and #000080 instead?

[diana,]

People keep saying that the colors on my siggy are 'too bright and hurt my eyes'. When I look at them, they're perfectly fine and I don't have to start screaming, close my eyes and rate it a 2 (on the 'rate the avatar and signature above' thread). If people are going to keep complaining, what colors would suit?

They are a bit too bright, may I recommend using #800000 and #000080 instead?

I use Pixlr to color my borders- they are attached to the wolf, you see. I could try making them softer, though.

[Galaxy;]

Well I've tried To make my Siggy on my mobile because I broke my computer (for anger reasons XD) and I'm not sure if I did a good job. But it was pretty hard.

[Break free;]

i made this experimenting.. its okay :T
free to use it, if you would like..

[diana,]

-snip-

[butteryPopcorn]

i made this experimenting.. its okay :T
free to use it, if you would like..

melts from cuteness overload

[Break free;]

join me?

[Galaxy;]

Well I've tried To make my Siggy on my mobile because I broke my computer (for anger reasons XD) and I'm not sure if I did a good job. But it was pretty hard. I think I've did OK but only because I'm used to doing it.