How to make User Bars for Signatures
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How to make User Bars for Signatures
Lately the userbars have become very popular with people. They are mostly putting them in their forum signatures, which is very practical. They are small, but can be used for linking.
A lot of userbars can be found at www.userbars.com and www.userbars.org, but sometimes people can't find exactly what they want. This is why I have decided to make a tutorial on how to make you own userbar.
The Pictures of this tutorial is made in Photoshop Cs. Well don't be surprised if you got a different Photoshop becuz, it works in every verion of Photoshop.
First of all, you have to create a new picture. The dimensions are as shown in the picture below.
Next, you must choose you background color. It is best to use the gradient tool and the colors that would suit the thing you are making a bar for. For example this color:
It should look like this.
Now, we must add the diagonal lines seen in all the userbars. To do this, create a new picture, dimensions 6x6 or 4x4[smaller] pixels and transparent. Next, use the pencil tool on that picture to create a diagonal line like this.
When you draw that, go to Edit -> Define Pattern and choose the pattern name. Now go back t your userbar pic, and click this icon, and you will encounter this menu Since the lines are too bold, go at the Layer table and adjust the blending options, or you can adjust the opacity well its up to you thou . This part is rather optional
it should be something like this.
Now your done with your scanbars( the Diagonal thinngy lol ) now you have to open your picture. I Advise you to find a .png picture so that it will be easier for you to fix your user bar. For my example, I want a Kagamine Rin User bar, sadly I cant find any pic( haha Epic fail) but if you really want that .jpg file, you should remove the background to make your userbar more neatly. To Do that, you could either use Laso Tool,[either of the three]< too find that menu, just Left click Lasso Tool and hold until this little menu comes out; or you could also use this tool, .
Well this the pic I chose:
Here's the pic, renderize and resized:
Note: Be sure that the size is small enough for your user bar, in my case I pick a really big pic, so I had a had time removing the background and making it smaller.
So next is, putting your pic in your userbar, to put the picture into your userbar, all you have to do is drag your the picture into the userbar.
now it should be like this.
Note: If the Logo/Picture is still big, adjust it until the way you want it to look like.
Done with the logo, now the text. For the Text, I will use Visitor BRK. [ download link http://www.dafont.com/visitor.font ]Set the font size to 10pt/12pt, turn of anti aliasing, and increase the character spacing to 25. When you write the text, use the stroke option to create a black or white 1 pixel border, depending on the font color. Here's what you should get.
Now that's done, the last step is to emboss it.
Then, you should add the elliptic transparent white part. In order to do that, choose the Ellipse Tool, select Create Filled Region and set the opacity to 30% or less to get the best quality. Create a new ellipse with this tool so that it's bottom part is located in the top of the picture.
The final thing to do is to add a 1 pixel border to the whole picture, and do it with around 20% opacity. I hope that there is no need to explain this. And here is the product – Thunderbird userbar.
If you have any further questions or want to comment my tutorial, you are free to do so.
How to make a userbar by pyost
In my case I Dont Like the Light Effect so, I just added another layer, and color it with my forecolor, and then, there is shadow thinngy, but the whole picture is covered. To see the picture again, just go to blending options, Layers: Color Burn Opacity 65% and there you have it, a Kagamine user bar.
That's it, hope u get it thou .
Last edited by ix3TotallyKei on Fri Dec 11 2009, 18:19; edited 2 times in total
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wahaha, yehey, tutorial, tnx kc^^
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m9clz wrote:wahaha, yehey, tutorial, tnx kc^^
hahah, dont thank me yet its not yet done
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ix3TotallyKei wrote:m9clz wrote:wahaha, yehey, tutorial, tnx kc^^
hahah, dont thank me yet its not yet done
i know^^ i mean tnx in advance
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haha. tnx for the tutorial keii-chan haha.
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cuteako27 wrote:haha. tnx for the tutorial keii-chan haha.
your welcome
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m9clz wrote:ix3TotallyKei wrote:m9clz wrote:wahaha, yehey, tutorial, tnx kc^^
hahah, dont thank me yet its not yet done
i know^^ i mean tnx in advance
lolz, well here it is, its done hope you can make one
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wooow soo good keii-chan haha.. ur my idool haha
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wahahaha, i'll make one once i can have a time without my parents, coz' they're disturbing me always like today lol
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m9clz wrote:wahahaha, i'll make one once i can have a time without my parents, coz' they're disturbing me always like today lol
lolz okay, well its really easy to make so you dont have to make it as your "career" i just made this tut 2 days becuz, of the puctures .
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wahaha, eh i like it better when no one's around, and besides, i will reformat my pc soon so i hav to transfer files again^_^
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m9clz wrote:wahaha, eh i like it better when no one's around, and besides, i will reformat my pc soon so i hav to transfer files again^_^
haha. LOL. nice maderuu how bout locking ur parents nd bro outside? haha
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cuteako27 wrote:haha. LOL. nice maderuu how bout locking ur parents nd bro outside? haha
wahaha,LOL...i can't do dat
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