Dx3

iTrader: (13)

I do a lot of photography editing in photoshop, but have never made a sig. My question is this. I make a new canvas based on the size of the sig rules we have. So what is the best way to shrink my picture I want to use in my sig down to a size to fit in the banner? I have been dragging the corners (Transform I think), but this seriously takes 5 minutes and by the time I get it down to size it looks like crap. How do you pro's do it?

Jonny

Rash

iTrader: (1)

- Crop Tool
- then on top you can change width and height
- make it as 450 width, and 100 height
- start cropping

If you don't like the height of the crop, try less width, like 400, or 350.

and when you save it as JPG, make the image quality 9 or 10.

lexdymndz

iTrader: (1)

use a picture viewer to adjust the scale then use a program like snag it to crop it to the 450x100 dimensions.

Dx3

iTrader: (13)

Doing this only gets half the car in the picture

Jonny

dunnojack

you need to crop first

then shrink the image size.

then crop again with the canvas size to meet 450x100 max

you can do all this from the same drop-down menu

Dx3

iTrader: (13)

OK, someone help!

So I have made my sig 450x100. Now when I try and type text on it, even at 72 I have to zoom in BIG time. So much so that at 72 I can't even see the letters... It is at 8.33% zoom. How can I make the current view to be a 100% view so what I see right now is considered zoomed in...

Jonny

dunnojack

your image dpi is too high.

go to image size, change the dpi to 72, and change the dimensions back to normal, because it tries to automatically shrink the picture if you tweak the dpi

Rash

iTrader: (1)

Oh ****, forgot to mention about the crop tool, you must type 450 px 100 px! or it will be automatically converts to inches. Sorry!

IS350jet

If you create your canvas to the size rules, there's no need to crop or resize anything. You may have to use different compression than jpeg, though. The jpeg file at those dimensions could still be too large. (file size, not physical size.)

The reason why your type tool is so small is because the images resolution is much too high. Like Dunnojack suggests, go to "image" then "image size" and change the resolution to around 72.

Rash

iTrader: (1)

I will make videos soon.

dunnojack

yeah, this is how i do it.

3 easy steps. 4 if needed occasionally.