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Well...might as well repost the tutorial while it's been uber bumped.

1. Make a good looking sig background, here's mine. Now make a new layer above every other layer *Go ahead and use it as a sig background for yourself if you want, I don't care.*



2. Now, using the Polygonal Lasso tool, HOLD DOWN SHIFT *gives you straight lines* and trace around until you get something like this....



3. Right Click and press Select Inverse, then, using the Paint Bucket tool, fill it all in Black. *I made the right part too thick, I know, bite me*



4. Now, Right Click the border's layer, and click Blending Options. Go to Styles, and use the DARKER version of the 2 styles I provide *uploaded at the bottom of this page* and you should get something like this.



5. Next, using the Rectangular/Elliptical Marquee Tools *and to be extra creative, use that Polygonal Lasso and Shift thing we talked about earlier*, delete parts of border to get something like this.



6. Now that looks pretty nice, but it now we can see through it! Oh noes!!!11 Which is why we'll be making another tech border UNDER your current one. So make a new layer, put it UNDER your first tech border, and get tracing with that Polygonal Lasso and Shift untill you get this.



7. Now Right Click, Select Inverse, and fill this one in Black using the Paint Bucket Tool again.



8. Right Click this second tech border's layer, and go to Blending Options, and use the LIGHTER version of the two styles I provided.



9. Now you can add some minor details into the second tech border's layer.



10. Those look neat, but grey on green? To change the colors, you can do 1 of 3 things.

1) Under the borders' Blending Options, go down to Color Overlay, and mess around untill the colors look acceptable.



2) Put these two layers below your Color Balance layers. *Usually looks better*



3) Just leave it like it is.

11. Now we're done, just add some text! For tech borders, you can strategically place text in the "grooves" or in the center. For my text, I put the text layer under the tech borders, and added a drop shadow.



I'll admit the border in my sig looks better, but this isn't about me, it's about you, so post your results and good luck!

With this technique, you can make sigs like this:
<----Yes I made that, it was for someone else though.

wow, that is great, does it work on mac?

10/10 tut dude

Is Photoshop on mac??

KEtCHuP_bOMB wrote:Is Photoshop on mac??

Yes, infact aren't the CS or CS2 *packages* standard for Macs? I remember CS was on my friends Mac when he got it.

Hey I used Both of your tuts and came up with this

and then i did this so i can use it

Those aren't half bad, the brushing on your background could use some work, but that's a very hard thing to "conquer".

lol thats my sig u made for me
hehehe
i feel honoured that u use my sig in ur great tut!

I know this is a bump, but someone delete this.

[noobquestion] How do I use this? I downloaded it and got this..."tech_style.asl" Is it a plugin or something? [/noobquestion]

It's a style.

Go to Blending Options on a layer, then Load Style, open the .asl and pick one of the two styles.

Classy.

;p

Nice tutorial for back then, though. Gotta be honest with that.

Yeah...I remember when a C4D could just be placed on a sig and it'd be good.

Now you have to put 30 C4Ds on 10 different blending modes just to make a background.

*sigh*

GametagAeonFlux wrote:Yeah...I remember when a C4D could just be placed on a sig and it'd be good.

Now you have to put 30 C4Ds on 10 different blending modes just to make a background.

*sigh*

Yeah.. good old times..

You know, sometimes I wonder why people ditched retro(But then completly ditch it, when you make something with filters it is now awesome and not sucky)..

Thank you so much i really needed this tutorial. Awsome tutorial. 10/10.

Hey Aeon I like the tut i even made one for my sig if that was fine with you(any problems jus pm me)

I think the tut is 10 out of 10 here is a sig i made but i used tripple layer