Here are the basics of paint to know, the tools you'll be working with.
Fairly simple, not much, but enough, so now, onto render first. I will be making my example sig of MLB Pitcher Scott Proctor.
I'm going to star by using this picture:
And the first thing you need to do is copy and past it into paint, and then your ready.
There are many sizes that you can make a sig of, but the size I'm going to use is 400x130, so the first thing I'm going to do is only get the 400x130 portion I'm to use.
The next thing is to rid all the BG(Useing Free Form Select) other than the player himself from the picture, and to fill the rest of the BG in with a dark color(Like Blue**)
NOTE: The Colored BG is just something I like to do becuase it makes it easier to crop later on, you don;t have to if you choose not to.
And then you zoom inas close as possible, and select pencil(Now understand, if theres another way you want to try, go ahead, this is my way, and I won't lie, it takes a lot of work to do.)
And what you want to do, using the pencil, and with the color selected set to whatever the BG you chose, if any, is, start to follow the out line of the player, and just make this little 1 pixle line seperating the player from the BG in the picture(or..whats left of it).
Now do this around the entire players outline, until it looks like this(I've made the 1 pixle line red, so it'd be easier to see)
Now once youve got to that, choose the Brush tool, and, while zoomed in, take away everything left from the original background.
You have now sussessfully cropped a picture in paint, and its time to move onto the BackGround. Now the best background for me that I use are from grsites.com, but you can get yours from wherever you want, or even try to make your own, which, if you can, your a step above me.
Heres the one I chose to work with
But something that i want to add to it, is a faded Yankees Logo, and how..you ask, well heres where I'll explain it.
First, you want to have your initial Background saved, and then, making sure its the same size as your first background, past a picture of the logo onto the original background, and save that as FileB.
I'm going to be useing this Yankees logo, and when its all finished, you'll have
Which keeps perfect symetry to the original one, and also has the logo.
Now, its time to get up to fade, heres what you need to do, Open up Windows Movie Maker, which almost all of you should have already on your computer, it would be under entertainment in Assesories. now once you opened that up, go up to File, and then Import Into Collections, and choose the two Background Files you have saved.
Select both of them, and then import. Now they should both be in the middle portion of the screen, click, and hold, and drag each one into the timeline at the bottom of the page.
With both of them in the Timeline at the bottom, I want you to click(and hold) whichever one is second, and slowly drag it into the first one, and you'll see that it is beginng to make a little triangle, thats for the fade.
Now, go to the little screen on the right hand side...and watching it closely, press Play, for it to get the to point that you want for the fade amount, and when its there, press pause.
Now, by pressing the Print Screen Button, you'll be able to get it back into paint(Don't save image becuase that will distort picture). When its back into paint, copy and paste out the picture so that way you can have the new, faded image all alone. While you have the copy box around the image, remember to resize it back to what you originally wanted, in my case 130x400., and what I get is a Photoshop Quality fade using basic paint and WMM.
Now that you have both a cropped render as well as the good background, you can put the two together, always make sure the players facing the opposite side of the 'sig'.
And with that in place, its time to choose a font, for me, I'm going to use a white Engaged with a Dark Blue Shadow, which means you should put the dark Blue on first, and then put the white one with a little pixle space from the blue one.
Now with your font in place, all you need to do is add a border.....EASY!
Its very, very simple, choose the Line Tool, make it black, and trace the outside of the sig, now make it white, and do the same for the innerside, the make it black again, and trace inside the white side, and you've got yourself a high quality border.
