i need to know how to do shadows and i want to know to how to make things like the one in pittbullz signature, where he has like a circle or wat with a line there, alot modern. how can u do both shadow and circle thing

are you talking about this:


I think pitbullz signed a pact with Satan in exchange for talent and the sig graphic was a bonus.

lol
now serious can sumone tell me how to do it?
shadows and modern thingie

I made this one in about 20 minutes using Fireworks MX 2004, one filter, one background external, two vector shapes, and various adjustments for color/background.

Several ways of making shadows... here are a few tutorials on shadows

http://www.good-tutorials.com/search/query/shadow

Also, for the circle, a couple of quick ways to do it in PS:
Circular Marquee tool- Shift-drag a circle on a blank canvas, go to edit-stroke-then set your stroke to whatever thickness and color you want and it will fill it.

Another way, create a circle in Illustrator and bring it into PS.

For other shapes, use the pen tool and create a path. Then choose a brush and click "stoke" on the path pallet.

There's a couple of quick ways to make a circle.

what tools are you using? Dew gave good directions for PS/Illustrator but they don't do me much good in Fireworks. If you're using the GIMP then dew's instructions would be good.

Also the question about shadows is a bit vague. Personally I suck at shadows still but there are lots of good tut's (tutorials) out there (like the one dew referenced).

Are you trying to create shadows for a specific object or trying to correct an existing shadow? Or do you just want to do a "drop shadow" for your sig graphic?

thanks tofu hehe and yes satan still owes me money

for Alkharid i used different layers and brushes techy and grunge heres the addy for them
http://www.deviantart.com/

Right click on the layer you want and select shadows.

thats the easy way to do it, there are many ways to do shadows, sometimes I do them by hand, sometimes I use the origin as a guide duplicate and work on the shadows from that, the pointers Dew gives are great, and of course another way is what Chaos said above