The proper way to show off your order status in sigs

OK, I've seen too many people with ugly order status in their sigs.

[b69eb0ba326]Step 1 Go to your order status and hit Print Screen to take put a screen shot onto your clipboard[/b69eb0ba326]

[b69eb0ba326]Step 2 Open up Photoshop or Paint, hit ctrl+v and say yes to resize if it asks[/b69eb0ba326]

[b69eb0ba326]Step 3 Crop the image PERFECTLY, copy it and paste it to a new image, and paint over the last 3 or so numbers of your order status[/b69eb0ba326]
People do this just to be super careful. Actually, I don't think anybody can really do anything with your order number, so the best reason to black it out is that "everyone else is doing it."

[b69eb0ba326]Step 5 Save your picture AS A GIF[/b69eb0ba326]
don't save it as a jpg, in this case those pictures are at least 12x the size and even then worse quality. gifs are good when only a few colors are involved (like now).
note in photoshop, file->save for web and you may have to increase the colors to something like 8.

[b69eb0ba326]Step 6 Upload your picture[/b69eb0ba326]
http//www.photobucket.com/ if you don't have an image host


[b69eb0ba326]Step 7 Put the image URL between img tags in your sig[/b69eb0ba326]
(img=")http//www.blah.com/ipod.gif(" alt=""/img) where the () are brackets.

what a great tutorial ;)

or you could download "Print Key"

thanks man, hooked it up

yours looks weird

photoshop can be used, also hope your happy now that its a lil clearer. roll

well....what he userfour didn't consider is that many/most people don't have photoshop, and therefore use ms paint for their imaging needs. paint has a horrible GIF compression procedure, thus..voila...bols24's sig image