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Hey there AF, I decided to make a beginner level tutorial for anyone who wants to make a forum signature in the style that I use often. Since it's Christmas, I'll be doing this one in Christmas style, but you can apply these steps to any type that you make. I'll keep this incredibly simple and basic to try to keep it understandable for anyone, even those with limited Photoshop knowledge. What we are making: What you will need: A main render (PNG), A PNG frame, Some PNG's that match the theme of what you are making (in this case we will use Christmas PNG's). and Photoshop or a program similar to Photoshop such as Gimp or Photopea which are free programs similar to PS. If you want to use the resources I used in making this, you can find everything that I used: At the following link I highly suggest the free website PngEgg.Com to find your PNG's on. I think you need an account but it's free to use and where I find all my PNG's. I also suggest DeviantArt which has a good selection of both free and paid resources. Step 1: Make a new canvas, I'm using size 475x301. Add in your render and your frame and position them the way you like on the canvas. Make sure your frame is behind your render. Step 2: You will need a picture that matches the theme of what you are making. I used a snow theme since this is a Winter/Christmas theme. Position it behind/underneath your frame and move it around until you like the way it looks in the frame. You may notice some of the picture sticks out from the frame, just use the eraser tool and erase the parts of the picture that stick out of the frame. Step 3: Next I started adding our PNG's. In the first image I added a blue Christmas tree. Make sure you put a PNG such as a Christmas tree behind the other layers. You want something behind the render. In the second image I've added a garland that goes well with the image. In the third image I've added something in the corner to bring everything together better. Make sure you put PNG's in front of and behind your main render to create depth and blend everything together better. Step 4: Next we will add text. The text I used are called "Gosmick Sans" & "Ginette" I don't know if they are available from a free font site or not but any font is fine. I usually like to pair capital non-cursive letters, with lower case cursive letters when using fonts. If you don't know how to put a border around your font, simply follow these steps~ Click on the layer with your text you want to add the border around (double click, a box will pop up). This should be the box that pops up. Simply click on the side where it says "Stroke" and choose the size and color you would like. You can even have it be a gradient if you prefer that instead of a solid color. Now as you could see with my font, it didn't really stand out and you wouldn't see it well. I usually fix this by taking a soft brush and simply brushing behind the text a small bit so that the text will stand out more. If your text doesn't blend in and you can see it fine then you don't need this step. If you do use this step make sure it's a color that still blends in well. As you can see below my text is now much more readable. Make sure you create a new layer under your text to brush your soft brush on if you use this step. Step 5: The next thing we are going to do is add a border behind the render so it looks like below: The first thing you need to do is go to the layer with your render on it, hold down the "CTRL" button on your keyboard and click the layer the render is on. You should see the render become highlighted letting you know it is selected as shown below: The next step is adding our background border. In order to do this go to Layer at the top tools > new fill layer > Solid color (keep your render highlighted). A dialog box should pop up and simply click "okay". It will then allow you to select a color of your choosing. Make sure it's something that fits the color scheme you already using, in this case I chose red. Make sure you move this layer behind the render at that point. Once you've done so, deselect your render and click on the layer that has our created background border on it. Select the move tool, and move it out behind your render by dragging it out from behind your render a little bit and it should look like this now: Now at this point, you could call this completed if you like what you have. If you are fairly familiar with photoshop however you could follow my below steps for enhancing the color, or if you just want to try it Step 6: Optional color layers: • First thing to do with our coloring steps is return to the bottom of your layers and make the white BG invisible for a moment. • After you have done that go to the very top of all your layers, it must be at the top, and create a new layer. • Go to the tool bar at the top and click Image > Apply image. This will apply the entire image without the white BG. • Return to your white BG and make it visible again. • Return to your new layer where you applied the image and follow the below steps *BUT PLEASE NOTE* You will need to adjust these settings to your specific signature and what looks better for it. The numbers you use might be different, just play around with them and see what looks best on your signature. • Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation > Saturation +20 • Image > Adjustments > Selective Coloring > Select "Neutral" from the drop down box > Cyan = -10 > Magenta = +10 > Yellow = -10 > Black = +5 • Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast > Brightness + 3, Contrast + 8 • Image > Adjustments > Photo Filter > Select "Cooling Filter (LBB)" from the drop down box and set density to 11% • Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation > Saturation + 10 Finished result:

It's sunny and warm, but not too hot like it's been recently which is a good thing.

Then you should try it since that's the purpose of it.

The video she posted is pretty detailed with how to do it and make it look really good. Usually I do it the second way she mentioned with making a duplicate layer ~

PNGEgg is an awesome site, I get most of my renders/PNG's there. I always change color of things with hue/saturation too when I don't like whatever color it originally is, so that it can match whatever I'm making better lol ~

I see nothingggg wrong with it. To me it looks amazing and it looks you did all the steps really well

Nothing wrong with it my guy, it looks nice. And Seto looks cute af in that Santa hat.

I think it looks great and just as good as anyone else's posted.

Thanks to you all I don't normally make a lot of gfx but might try to make more in the future.

That's great Pessi

REEEEEEEEEEEE I saw it already but I'll say it again ~ it turned out really awesome n you did a greatttt job

Okay I finished trying it to I came out with these outcomes.

Thanks Pessi Seto Kaiba is one of my gods

Love the outcome @Sarada I'm glad to see you guys are using the tut and it's cool to see what people come up with using it ^^

Thanks @Sasuke I want to see your result too : > Thanks very much my dude I liked your version of it a lot on your showcase too

Alright I'm going to try my hand at this later and see what I come up with sometime this week. I'll post my results too. @Sarada - Your result was amazing looking too.

Cute tut sis. I quickly tried it out and this was the result- I'll try more in-depth later with something else. I like this style.

Glad you guys like it, looking forward to seeing your results

I played some games, did some things I had to do like laundry, slept in, did some dishes. I didn't feel 100% today so I didn't do anything I didn't have to do. I had a small headache and I still don't feel as great as I could so I'll prolly go to bed early tonight here in a few minutes. Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit better.

Ya this incident @Zeref mentioned at the restaurant today scared me. I don't like loud sounds and yelling is really hard for me to deal with so we had to leave immediately because I felt like I was going to have a panic attack and that my heart was going to pound right out of my chest. Especially when the guy started making threats. It looks like the police arrived though so I hope no one was too shaken up or that any of the wait staff got injured after we left. We went to an aquatic center today at the YMCA and it was really fun ~ They have a huge therapy pool there that is heated with really warm water, almost like a spa, but it's the size of a huge indoor swimming pool. We swam in that for about an hour, then went to the aquatic park part and played in the normal swimming pool where they have several pretty large water slides Then we went back to the therapy pool to warm back up before getting out. We also got in the steam room, sauna, and hot tub. Did some other boring stuff like grocery shopping at Walmart, walking the track, eating, blah blah blah lol Now I'm just going to play some games after waking up from a nap ^.^