I do enjoy the way you present the subject Matt. Since I don't have a Wacom I used the text tool in PS to create a "signature" and easily followed all the rest of the steps.Thanks
I had to do a quick job, found you and you explained very easy and quickly. following you. great man. i like when people explain just what they have to and i dont need to watch a 50 minutes video
Yeow! This is such a help! Thanks...I did get my signature from PhotoLogo & they did a wonderful job on mine, giving me my signature & the name of my 'cottage business' under my name. But until now, I didn't know how to apply it because I'm a PS illiterate! You're a saint!
Once you've made your signature you can save it as a Brush and you will always have it, just choose brush, then your signature, then choose your color. Much easier than importing a file everytime you want to add a signature. Search making a logo into a brush and it's basically the same process.
Hi Matt! I presume we could ever sign on a piece of paper and scan the same for use in PS? I guess we could also create a brush with the signature in Photoshop. We could change the brush to any colour we want.
Great info Matt! Thanks. Do you have a video on how to make a shortcut or quickly add the signature, or do I have to open the file for the signature each time? Thanks
Hi Matt: just a FYI, the company you mentioned in your video about doing logos had been doing a lot of advertising on FB. I am a photographer and designer. Although my skills as a designer are very limited. However, after watching your video, I was able to download some free calligraphy fonts and had a go at designing a logo myself. Well sir, I was able to come up with some very cool designs. When I got my first logo for Photologo I was very under whelmed. It looks like they purchased the same fonts as I did. I am not happy with these folks. Only one example and it looks like it took them five minutes to do. And, the price of the logo is just not worth it. My advice, for me the next time, I will not work with these folks again. Nothing against you at all, just very underwhelmed for $90.00. As always Matt, you do an excellent job teaching. I have been following your dates at NAPP. Great work.
Hi Jon. This video is years old and I thought it was pretty cool when I created it. However, after I released it, and people started buying them, I saw the same thing as you. They all started to look the same. That's why I released a course on how to do it yourself: mattk.com/photographerlogo/ Thanks!
Thanks for the video Matt, really interesting however, if someone wanted to steal your image as far as I can tell they can remove the signature. Can you somehow incorporate it into the image file to stop image theft? Thanks again
Hi Bryan. The only way to truly protect your photos from being stolen online is don't publish them online. If some one wants your photo, they'll get it no matter what. There's nothing you can do.
Save it as png. Then when your ready to put use it, go to files,place embeded, go to where you saved it then double click, drag to whatever size then walllah.
If I save the signature design, would I be able to use that file as watermark in lightroom? I'm not very PS proficient, but know my way around lightroom.
Really great tutorial! But I just have one question. If you've saved the signature as a JPEG, and "multiply" it onto the photo, is there a way to invert the colour of the writing without the background popping up again? Not sure if I'm explaining this good enough, but I'll give it a try.
It’s easier to scan your signature on white paper and save it as a photo. You can then import the photo, remove the white background and you’ve got your signature layer.
I have the signature part down but I want to add some text under the signature and copy it along with the signature to past into a photo and I can not get that to work. Is there a way to do that?
Create a new text layer. create your text, turn off background, merge visible, copy and paste. If you plan on doing the same text with the sig over time. Just create a brush preset. See my other comment on how to do that. much easier than doing this over and over for multiple photos.
I love this video, thanks so much!! Would you know how to create the photologo file into a brush in photoshop?? I did so with my previous logo, but like you i love the logo they created much better. Only problem is it wont allow a brush preset to be defined. So confused. Thank you in advance if you find this and have an answer for me.
After multiply my photo and then press command + i my background will change in black instead. How to solve this? ~rest of video and explanation are great!
I'm a complete & total idiot! There, I saved you the trouble of saying it...Tho' I know I am! I was just thrilled when I found your tutorial because woohoo, I do have my signature done by Photologo & I love it. I also do not have Lightroom but do have Photoshop Elements 13. I thought I had it made now for sure. The problem is I'm a photographer...I'm about as technically adept as a human can be. I've watched the video five times now & there doesn't seem to be one thing in your PS that I can find in mine? Is Elements 13 *that* much different than previous ones or I'm I not looking in the right places? Sorry to be such a pinhead but could you help me a little further here? I've already had a number of my bird photos stolen from me & I do need to put a signature on my work. Thanks for any help... ~Ginger
Matt, come on...You say open a blank page but you don't give any specifications, size, etc. also you jump around so much. If you are going to teach tutorials on youtube, you need to give progressive steps and details. This is not "Creative live" where you talk fast and leave out steps so people have to buy the video!!
