hey all just wanted to see what people thought of my first attempt at doing my own sig, so plz leave any comments

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lol is it that bad that no one wants to make a comment.

I no graphic expert, but it's not that it's bad.. jk.

You've filled the space provided.. it's not too busy.. The txt is a little hard to read * my eyesight isn't great. *

I think it would be a little more powerful with more color * RED *

Just a thought.

i think chasHK is right..red...then flip the graphic around so the light and assassin figure are on the left

add a little color to the name, and either less glow around the text or a different color

good work though, its not bad at all for your first attempt, you only get better with practice

edit* maybe its not the glow, i think it may be the gradient you have on the text that may need tweaking..try both, experiment

the best thing to get a good focus in this sig is to add a border

1. make a new layer
2. press ctrl+a
3. Goto edit>stroke

Good luck

Quite a good first attempt , Text is a little hard to read for me but all in all it's not bad . Keep up the good work and enjoy

Cheers

cheers everyone, i will take on board everything that you've said and have a go a re-doing it to see what the out come is.

just to let you know as well i don't know how to use photoshop properly yet just know the basic's or what you might call the infant class stuff. but i am starting to watch a load of tut's on you-tube and trying to take on board everything thats in the creative souls bit of darkside. as well as comments made by people to other art/ sigs that i have seen while looking around.

if i may ask (while looking stupid doing so, lol)

all the terms that keep coming up get me a bit lost, so in someone wants to be very kind. would you do a list and explaination for me.

i keep seeing the word "rendered" in regards to a pic, aswell as others that i cana't remember at this time but if i do i'll edit this post.
if you can think of any of the top of your heads would you be kind to explain them to me plz.

cheers for your time and i'll keep practising more an more to get better and better.


gradient was another one is that the shadow maker tool

these are gradients gradient pics

I'm sure you've seen these in photoshop...start a new layer...click blending options>stroke then where it says color...click and choose gradient....make border size 10, choose "inside" or "center".....and you'll see what a gradient is.....you can manipulate it manually by double clicking the pattern in the rectangular box...also if you click the little arrow near the pattern you can choose from a bunch of preset gradients aswell

this is what a gradient on text looks like
gradients on text

they dont have to go just on the border, you can put a gradient over anything in photoshop, cause if you go to blending options>gradient....you can put a gradient on any layer...also, where the paint bucket tool is, if you right click that you can choose a gradient overlay tool....put that on, then click the layer hold button down and drag the line across the image and let go, this should put a gradient on your image...this feature is cool cause it lets you manipulate the gradient yourself

hope that helps
Wyte

wyte cheers that was very helpful i knew about the bucket one but only ever knew/thought it made one side of the pic darker and the other lighter dependin on which way you drag it.

just had a mess around with the gradient and i see what you mean by you can just about do anything with them

here you go guys i tried to take on board what was said and came up with this one.

i tried to keep more of the coulour in it this time. let me know what you think.

cheers

i just realised that i've been using my rap name and not my internet name on these sigs aswell

wow...honestly, thats miles better imho....maybe take some color out of the trees...but not as dark as your first one...in between....oh, and the girls head honestly i think it should be flipped, it might blend better...and add an inside stroke....just a suggestion

nice though, and im glad my quick gradient tutorial helped you a little bit...the text is almost perfect now, i was sitting at the doctors waiting for my girl to get out of her appointment, and i used the PC in the waiting room...lol

one question though....which site are you using to upload your graphics....cause i see a little bit of loss of quality.....use imageshack.us i never have problems with loss of quality with them...just a helpful hint

they have both been just uploaded str8 from my comp which isn't very good anyways, it about time for a new one i think.

i used imageshack to upload it as my sig though. i think i did use the gradient tool on my first one while i was doing the name but not knowin the full extent of what i could do with it i used the gray/black to white one which i can see myself didn't come out all that good.

right i'll give it a go flipping the image and using the stroke to see what you think. i'm just seeing it all as practice so the more the better.

cheers

right on....practice makes per......

right i now know why they might of been losing quality, it might of been the way i was saving it, don't think i was saving it right.

i seen someone asking about making pics look like they are coming out of the top of the actual pics so i thought that i would give that a go in this attempt aswell to see if it comes out the way i hope it will.

i also need to keep saved copies of all the cut outs i do so it don't take so long, lol.

here goes anyways, my master peice hopefully, hehe.

there proberly abit more i could do to make it better, but i'm getting there try by try

1. it's oversize at 347.28 kB

There should only be 1 focal in a sig, therefore, the head should be taken down in opacity a little more and the anime girl render should be a little more saturated or sharp.
I prefer the text colour to be taken from the sig so that it blends.
If the anime girl render was moved more towards the middle...the head wouldn't be needed.

On saying all that, it's pretty good for a beginner

i'm not too sure why that file size has gone soo big as all the rest are fine as far as i know. maybe it was something to do with the way that i saved it.

i'm only just starting to learn basic things i can do with these pictures at the moment, but half way through this sentance i just went and had a play around with the pic esp the anime girl and brightened the coulour of it soo that it stood out more and you right it does work better with it like that.

i agree with the same coulour for text to match the theme of the sig i went with red as someone mentioned it & i thought i give it a try to see how it looked as it was my first sig and others know what makes a better sig than i do.

and thankyou for your in put and suggestions, i will take everything on board and try to make my next even better using all i'm being taught.

cheers

faerie i tried what you said just making it a bit simpler and using matching colours for txt as b/groung and came up with this. let me know what you all think. i have also had a go at reducing the size of the file.
cheers

edit- the out line/glow at the bottom of the knight isn't actually there on the original

That's a great sig frenzy.... Very nice. One suggestion though- you may remove "Bevel and emboss" to the text.
It's only my opinion. if it looks good for ya just skip my words

You are going well frenzy. Keep it up

edit: maybe it'd be better to place the render a bit more to the bottom. There is a small outerglow line visible which is ruining the sig's focus

cheers kunju. i did meantion that it wasn't there in the original don't know where that has come from but when i get chance i am gonna take that out. i didn't use a bevel and emboss, think thats just the way the shadow ended up making it look, but i was wondering that myself. i was tryin not to make the txt look to borin but if you think it would look better without the shadow and not too borin then i would probbally agree.

i'll post another attempt soon

here we go here the improved version

very nice first attempt mate... and nice second attempt, some blending in of the render like smudging it and opacity levels would help and also the writing is a bit plain compared to the sig itself just my opinion of course :)