Sig art question

hey .. i was wondering how all you master sig makers do your sveet effekts on the sigs, like lightening bolts and such.. i normally use flash, so i really have never used photoshop, but do yall like find pics of lightening then render them, or do you bitmap trace them or what.. cause i find it hard in flash to trace a bitmap that has stuff around the edge of what im trying to trace.. i end up having to bust out my UBER E-RAZOR and erase the stuff in like 100000000 times magnification. also.. with fonts.. do yall actually draw the letters or do you download fonts and edits them...??i normally would download adobe here at ma momma's house, but it takes 14 hrs with dial up.. i have flash at my dads, so my work on flashes as well as sigs is restricted to two dayys everyother weekend.. but any help or advice on sig mastery would be gewd

Edited by The_1ron_lung, 30 January 2005 - 05:01 AM.

www.dafonts.comThis place has some neat fonts.

Flash is not good for complex graphic designing, It's ment for making powerful websites.As for the lightning effect, there are things called brushes, that you can download, they are kind of like pasting a perfect picture of the object. Or you can take a pic of lightning, and set it as a screen layer (Only shows the white) OR you could do it the old fashion way (the way any self respecting artist should) do it your damn self!