How to Make User Ranks/Badges

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  1. FullMetalBabe

    FullMetalBabe Zealot

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    How to make a User Rank/Badges
    Ellow~
    In this tutorial I will show you how to make your own rank on Photoshop. It’s VERY simple.(I am using Photoshop CS4)

    Tools to be used:
    ·Rectangle Tool[Vector]
    ·Text Tool
    ·Gradient Tool
    Step 1:
    Make a document of any size, I personally for this tutorial I made it 159 x 31.
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    Step 2:
    Select the rectangle vector tool and drag the tool diagonally as seen below.
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    Step 3:
    Double click on the shape layer and a window like this will come up:
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    We want to make a clean looking image, no? Let’s make an admin rank, for this one I will use red, but you can use any color you like.
    I used a gradient overlay from #b00000 to #d70202, blend mode normal, opacity 100%, linear, 90 degrees angle and a scale of 100%. Refer to screenshot.
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    I also added a stroke #820000, size 1, position inside, blend mode normal, opacity at 87%, fill type solid. Refer to screenshot.
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    This is what we have till now:
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    Step 4:
    We want to add shiny, no? For those who don’t want to, you can skip this step.
    Anyways, for PC user Ctrl+Click on the layer, for Mac Command+click on the layer. Refer to screenshot below.
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    What it will do is select the shape.
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    Step 5:
    Create a new layer then select the gradient tool. Make sure you have white as a foreground color.
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    Set it from foreground to transparent.
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    Using the angle tool [as seen below] mode normal, opacity 100%, and maintain checked dither and transparency, with that create a straight line across the image.
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    You can unselect the marquee around the image now and reduce the opacity of the white layer gradient to 12%.
    This is how it should look like:
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    Step 6:
    To add the text! You can use any text you want, there are so many variations! But I used the font face Eurostile, bold, size 14, sharp and added the text “Administrator”.
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    To add more effects to the text, I decided to add a drop down shadow at multiply, opacity 27%, angle 120, distance 1px, spread 0% and size 0px. Refer to screenshot below.
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    This is how it will look.
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    To end, if you guys want to leave it like that, you can, personally I will add an image [famfam icons you can download at famfamfam.com: Silk Icons] And this is the final result:
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    To save as a GIF delete the awww.adminaddict.net_data_MetaMirrorCache_62859581a1e4118a603ecfe4789b1767.png background layer for transparency then go to File>Save for website & devices.
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    Then click save.

    If you want to save as a PNG just delete the awww.adminaddict.net_data_MetaMirrorCache_62859581a1e4118a603ecfe4789b1767.png Background layer then go to File>Save As> and from the drop-down menu choose .PNG
    You can try with many colors and text
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  2. Tyler

    Tyler The Badministrator

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    Congratulations, FMB.

    It does stretch the page out a bit though. :p
     
  3. Nick

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    I'm still working on resizing the images as we speak. :D
     
  4. Chris

    Chris Regular Member

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    A well-deserved spot on the blog. As I said earlier, superb work. :)
     
  5. Tom

    Tom Regular Member

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    Great tutorial for those who are interested in making there own rank images without outsourcing.
     
  6. FullMetalBabe

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    Thank you, I hope you guys enjoy it! And that some of you may even try it! xD My first tutorial, not my last.
     
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    Tom Regular Member

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    I hope we have some testers out there!

    I'd love to see their final work.
     
  8. Havok

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    Very Nice work. I may try this out soon.
     

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