Hello, I need some help designing a signature like this. Can someone give me a tip how to do it. I don't own a tablet. Thanks.
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Junior Member- Nov 2011
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Renaissance
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Scan and Live trace in illustrator. To start. From there you may have to tweak using the pen tool to get it exact.
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Junior Member
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well I was hoping that there's a similar font to that which i can edit a little to do the desired outcome because pen tool is pretty hard to play with by not having a tablet but just a mouse.Comment
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Always been Cosmo
- Jun 2011
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You don't need a tablet for something like that. A few minutes with the pen tool and you'll be done. A tablet may make it go a little quicker, but with just the mouse it shouldn't take more than 10-15 minutes.Comment
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Senior Member
- Jul 2003
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Signatures are one of the few things I live trace. Or just use Photoshop and export the path. Scan it, up the contrast to black and white, magic wand it, make a path, export the path, open in Illy and clean up. All that takes about 2 minutes.Comment
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you're pale in comparison
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Always been Cosmo
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Bescmirched from on High
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Originally posted by stancho View Post
I've actually never owned a tablet.
Tracing that should be reasonably simple, and it'd make for good practice.
Being able to trace that in a short time (no more than 20 minutes) is a skill you really should acquire--mouse or tablet--, as it will be a skill you can draw upon time and time again.Comment
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Always been Cosmo
- Jun 2011
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Just for kicks I traced it with the pen tool in Illustrator. Took me 9 minutes.
Yes, I'm bored today...Comment
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Baroness of Buffet
- Aug 2006
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Yup, I would draw with a regular pen (or a felt tip pen), scan and live trace it too. Do it a lot for my clients. If it's your own signature, pen tool would be fine, I would feel weird about pen tooling a signature that wasn't mine.Comment
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Always been Cosmo
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Baroness of Buffet
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And for security sake, don't use the exact signature that is used to sign legal documents as a logo.Comment
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Senior Member
- Jul 2003
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I've done autograph signatures for donor walls and such but most times would advise against using an actual signature in signage for the security reasons Buda mentions.Comment
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