# Starting Yoyo GFXing ((Making Sigs/Banners))
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/starting-yoyo-gfxing-making-sigs-banners/10685
**Category:** Artwork Exhibition
**Created:** [January 25, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/starting-yoyo-gfxing-making-sigs-banners/10685 "2010-01-25T00:03:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@JakeKoffer](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JakeKoffer)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/starting-yoyo-gfxing-making-sigs-banners/10685/1 "2010-01-25T00:03:55Z")
Hey guys, Im going to try to start you GFXing. Now here are some free programs virus free.
> **[GIMP - Downloads](https://www.gimp.org/downloads/)**
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> The official download page for all things GIMP! Please only use the official binaries provided here unless you really, really know what you’re doing (it’s the only way to be safe). We try to provide binaries in-time with regular releases, but...
And [http://www.paint.net/](http://www.paint.net/)
I suggest the Paint thing, it has everything organized more easier and it has a nicer interface.
Now I am rendering some yoyos so everyone can use, but please if you are going to use it in your sig/banner don’t put it in the banner or sig but just type it in your signature.
Now when you want to make a sig it usually consists of a background some text and a image. When you take the background out of a image the left over is considered a render. For example. If a pokeball image had a pokeball and a blue background and you took out the blue background the pokeball would be a render. How you do this fast is in the [paint.net](http://paint.net) program in the tools bar over the bucket icon is a wand icon. Click on it then double click on the background in the image and then then Ctrl+X. This only works if the background is the same color, if you want to do it on a background with many many colors you have to use Lasso Select or Rectangle select tool.
You can make a background by using the effects tab and editing around with colors and what not. You can write with the text thing.
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### Author:  [@Vivo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Vivo)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/starting-yoyo-gfxing-making-sigs-banners/10685/2 "2010-02-16T21:39:10Z")
You just saved my life cropping those yoyos. At first I used Magic Wand on the yoyo then Crop it, but then I realized I’m supposed to wand the background. LOL.