Help with a jpeg

[Bulldog VII]

Hi all

I have a quick question. I write so many letters that I decided to scan my signature to add to the bottom of the letter.

Done this no problem, but it's in black & white & I can't seem to save it as another colour (not the incorrect spelling of colour, I'm English!)

It's saved as a jpeg & opens in preview

Thanks

 

[irishgrizzly]

hmm, not sure what you're looking to do. If you want to change the colour of the text you can bring it into Photoshop, convert to CMYK and play the Hue/Saturation (apple+U) sliders to get another colour.

Or if you're working in Quark you can keep it grayscale and assign a new colour to it in the picture box window.

 

[Bulldog VII]

sorry I didn't make myself clear. I want to change the signature from black to another colour

 

[bluetooth]

Open it in Illustrator and use the "live trace" feature. Click on "1 colour logo" then click "expand" to create outlines. You will then have a vector that you can change to any colour.

ie.

 

[Bulldog VII]

I haven't got illustrator, is that a free download??

 

[Bulldog VII]

OK, I'll be a bit cheeky, can anyone save the signature for me in a deep purple colour

 

[JasonElise1983]

here ya go...and it's a transparent png. so you can use it on any color background you want as well.

-JE

 

[Bulldog VII]

Thanks very much, a perfect colour

 

[lil'homunculus]

snazzy signature!

 

[john82]

I have the same problem with a black text saved as jpg which i want to turn to color.

i don't have photoshop or anything like that...

is it possible to do this with basic mac graphic software or do i really have to

download heavy software just for this small thing?

thanx in advance for your help!
Johnny from guitars101

 

[ChicoWeb]

Nice sig..heh.

 

[snickelfritz]

Separated the signature from the background, the added some layer styles to it for fun.
Saved as png with transparent background.