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Our name, Signs 101, seems to generate some confusion so it seems appropriate to clarify our view of what it is intended to mean. The confusion often takes the form of members and visitors expecting that we are a community that caters to beginners in the profession of sign making. While it is...

When you want to start a new thread, follow these steps: 1. Click on the Forums link located on the Navigation Bar (circled in red). 2. You are now on the Forums Home Page. It lists a number of different forum categories. Scroll down through them and select the forum category that is most...

Membership at Signs 101 is open to any individual, company, supplier, student or educator who is, has been, or wants to be engaged in sign making as a way to earn a living. We are a community of professional sign makers, and those who want to be, who share information intended to improve our...

Filter Forge is both a free standing application or a plugin for Adobe Photoshop which allows one to create seamless texture tiles. The textures are usually generated within the filter whereby various kinds of "noise" is manipulated to look like something in the real world or that one could at...

The purpose of Signs 101 is to provide a venue and resources for individuals engaged in or interested in engaging in the craft, business and profession of sign making as a way to earn their living ... in full or in part. Conversely, Signs 101 is not here and is opposed to providing those same...

It has been proposed that the business model for Signs 101 be changed so that its primary revenue sources would be from paid members rather than from advertisers. In this event, the resulting changes would be: Removal of Signs 101 from search engine indexing Unregistered members would not be...

Would anyone with Illustrator CS3 be willing to open and resave a file to an earlier version? I'm still on CS2.

Have you ever run a wiki or participated in a wiki? What did you think of it pro and con?

Let's all welcome our newest merchant member ... Replicator! (now known as SignProof Pro) Marc has an interesting and unique new software application named SignProof Pro that solves the problem of protection when supplying proofs to customers. You can learn more about SignProof Pro and...

Since we seem to have this continuing debate over file swapping, file requests, displaying of reproductions of copyrighted and/or trademarked materials etc., maybe it's time for members to vote on where they stand. Where do you stand on intellectual property rights? Your vote is completely...

For anyone considering adding Filter Forge to their design arsenal, it is being offered at a 20% discount now through February 18th.

Hi everyone. My name is Violet. My family and I are Fred's helpers. We help with weeding the vinyl and coming up with design ideas and in reading what all you gals and guys have to say (sometimes we have to tell Fred if you get nasty). This is my main man, Pops. Seems like we've been married...

As many of you know, I have been busy creating seamless tiles for signs, wraps and many other uses in wide format printing. Much of what I have been using to do this with is a fairly new application named Filter Forge. Filter Forge is both a high-end plugin for Adobe Photoshop and a...

Working on natural camouflage seamless tiles and would like opinions of these examples.

If you do wide format printing, what do you use for an image editing program?

This is how to have a photo or image appear in a post. Upload it to Signs 101 using the Attachment feature as shown in the images here (circled in blue) or use the Insert Image feature (circled in red). Using the Insert Image path is more versatile and allows you to insert an image...

This is how to have a photo or image appear in a post. Upload it to Signs 101 using the Attachment feature as shown in the images here (circled in blue) or use the Insert Image feature (circled in red) to have yor image appear inline in your post. Using the Insert Image path is more...

Please look at the attached example picture for 30 to 60 seconds. The visual effect is supposed to be that of dried out paint which is cracked and peeling up from the surface. I look at it one time and it is as it should be. I look at it ten seconds later and I see a reverse effect ... the...

For anyone interested in the Filter Forge software, they are offering a 25% discount on any version of the program until January 5, 2008. Here's a link to the special offer.

Can anyone with Illustrator CS3 open a file for me. My CS2 can't handle it.