[Abc]

What blue said, let me carry on from there. Find a good spot in the user-bar, which you can cut off easily. Once you do that, keep on pasting it over the text(CTR+V or CTR+J). Once you've done that. Zoom out to 100% and compare the original and the one you just partially ripped. If the results don't look promising, then keep on adding bits and darken/lighten areas until you almost reach perfection. Once you think it looks alright, the text part is very easy. But can be hard at times as well. Most of them will need a stroke and a shadow.

Spoiler:

Awesome.

[Kureo]

You can take a screenshot of the UB you want, from there you can open it in PS and use the Pen-Tool to render out the background from the UB. Then you can copy the pattern/color behind the next and paste it over the text and use tools such as smudge or a new pattern to make it look smooth. Then you recreate the text yourself. Note that some UB don't have a background and are PNG, meaning you won't require to render them yourself.

[Sir]

Honestly you shouldn't rip userbars, it makes your site look desperate and nooby. Use publicly available ones at all the various admin forums, or even off of places like deviant art. You're less likely to piss off the wrong people, and you won't get into any trouble.

[Kureo]

Honestly you shouldn't rip userbars, it makes your site look desperate and nooby. Use publicly available ones at all the various admin forums, or even off of places like deviant art. You're less likely to piss off the wrong people, and you won't get into any trouble.

Most people don't rip for personal use, they rip for share or leak them. Which people then again can use for theirs sites, for inspiration or a template for their own designs.

[Sir]

Honestly you shouldn't rip userbars, it makes your site look desperate and nooby. Use publicly available ones at all the various admin forums, or even off of places like deviant art. You're less likely to piss off the wrong people, and you won't get into any trouble.

Most people don't rip for personal use, they rip for share or leak them. Which people then again can use for theirs sites, for inspiration or a template for their own designs.

Still, somebody is using them, and that somebody looks bad. Just my 2 cents.

[Kureo]

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Not necessarily, maybe someone doesn't use them. But simply as a starting point for their own creation. 'w'

[Sir]

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Not necessarily, maybe someone doesn't use them. But simply as a starting point for their own creation. 'w'

How does one use a ripped userbar as a conceptual "seed"? If you mean that they get inspiration from it, I can understand that. Yet why would ripping it even be necessary if that's the case?

[Kureo]

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Say someone rip a UB that has interesting shapes. A designer takes that template and start messing with it... Changing the shapes, colors, adding shapes and effects and so on from the original UB.

[Sir]

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Say someone rip a UB that has interesting shapes. A designer takes that template and start messing with it... Changing the shapes, colors, adding shapes and effects and so on from the original UB.

Wouldn't you need the PSD to really do anything worthwhile with it though?

[Kureo]

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Not really, as you could still easily change the shapes rather easily.