My second banner i ever made - One with bison

dominicankid098 · 09-27-2004, 10:38 PM

Dude, seriously let me give you some tips. You need to stop putting alot of pictures. If you want to try and make a good background let me give you a fast tutorial.

1. Open whateva size document you want make sure its transparent.
2. Press D to get your default black and white colors.
3. Take out your gradient tool and put the blending mode on difference.
4. Start playing around with your gradient tool untill you get something like this.

5. Take out your dodge tool and select the Star shaped brush. Change the pixel to something less than 19. Start playing with the stars tool on your background untill you get something like this.

6. Get your gradient tool once again and this time change the foreground and background color. Put the blending mode on Overlay and use the gradient once on your bg. Should look like this. (option: add an image on the bg and change the blending mode to overlay or anything that might look nice, merge the layer with crtl+e)

7. Add some scan lines. Easily just make a new document 1 x 2 pixels. fill the first pixel with black and the second one with white. Goto edit> define patern. Press ok. then goto your bg and and make a new layer.. press edit> fill > pattern> choose the 1 x 2 patern > and fill. put the mode on overlay and change the opacity then merge the layers by pressing crtl+e and it should look like this..

8. Add a one pixel border around your image with a color that matches around your background. In this case I chose brown.

9. Add techy one pixel lines around your image and shapes with low opacity color in the shapes like this.

10. Add some text. i DIDNT ADD ANY CHARACTERS ON THIS BANNER buT WHATEVA. =) FIGHTERSGENERATION IS DOWN ON ME.

And that is it. Simplest way to make a kinda nice looking bg. This is good enough for a begginer like yourself. And myself as well. I am a begginer as well.

if you got further questions just add me on msn lancer <a href="mailto:px@hotmail.co...otmail.com</a>

Edited By dominicankid098 on 1096350120

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09-27-2004, 10:38 PM	#6
dominicankid098 Senior Member Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 1,430 Post Thanks / Like Thanks (Given): 0 Thanks (Received): 0 Likes (Given): 0 Likes (Received): 0 Dislikes (Given): 0 Dislikes (Received): 0 Points: 0 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s)	Dude, seriously let me give you some tips. You need to stop putting alot of pictures. If you want to try and make a good background let me give you a fast tutorial. 1. Open whateva size document you want make sure its transparent. 2. Press D to get your default black and white colors. 3. Take out your gradient tool and put the blending mode on difference. 4. Start playing around with your gradient tool untill you get something like this. 5. Take out your dodge tool and select the Star shaped brush. Change the pixel to something less than 19. Start playing with the stars tool on your background untill you get something like this. 6. Get your gradient tool once again and this time change the foreground and background color. Put the blending mode on Overlay and use the gradient once on your bg. Should look like this. (option: add an image on the bg and change the blending mode to overlay or anything that might look nice, merge the layer with crtl+e) 7. Add some scan lines. Easily just make a new document 1 x 2 pixels. fill the first pixel with black and the second one with white. Goto edit> define patern. Press ok. then goto your bg and and make a new layer.. press edit> fill > pattern> choose the 1 x 2 patern > and fill. put the mode on overlay and change the opacity then merge the layers by pressing crtl+e and it should look like this.. 8. Add a one pixel border around your image with a color that matches around your background. In this case I chose brown. 9. Add techy one pixel lines around your image and shapes with low opacity color in the shapes like this. 10. Add some text. i DIDNT ADD ANY CHARACTERS ON THIS BANNER buT WHATEVA. =) FIGHTERSGENERATION IS DOWN ON ME. And that is it. Simplest way to make a kinda nice looking bg. This is good enough for a begginer like yourself. And myself as well. I am a begginer as well. if you got further questions just add me on msn lancer <a href="mailto:px@hotmail.co...otmail.com</a> Edited By dominicankid098 on 1096350120