Signature Request... Advice handouts...

[Revan]

Alrighty...

The Good:

• The use of the funky shapes. That is cool, very cool. Especially behind the sillhouette of the Firefly, that whole logo thing is cool.
  
• You experimented a bit with the border, could use a bit of work but it is different from your previous ones.
  
• You have a theme, dark...
  
• The line under the name-text. That has a good effect on it, it doesn't stand out too much and it down't receed too much.
  

The Not-So-Good:

• The phototreatment on the firefly does a bit too much. I presume you took the layer and duplicated it and set it to multiply? If so try lowering the opacity on such layers, most often in only takes a little bit (like 25-35) to give the effect you want. But this is too dark...
  
• The Background isn't exactly what I had in mind when I said Space. Hmmmm.... I think I'll make a tutorial on space backgrounds.
  
• To me the text is a little plain. It looks like arial bolded.
  
• The guy is a bit too dark as well.
  

Suggestions:

• You've gotten the concept of blending down, no need to repeat myself on that again.
  
• Try experimenting with layer blending styles... Mainly on text, you don't want to add too much shinyness to text but you don't want it to fade from existence. Also on the border, you can do all sorts of cool stuff with blending effects on the border.
  
• Try finding some good space stock and then generate your own space backgrounds for sigs. If you already do this then great! But I'd suggest using stock on DeviantArt.com. I'll probably post a tutorial later/soonish about how I make mine.
  
• Try to use multiple pieces to generate a background-foreground effect that can easily blend it all together. Like you have the background and then you put another nebula on the top of the renders set to either lighten or Linear Dodge (depending on what looks best) this impacts the renders and helps with the color scheme stuff. I'll probably put up a tutorial later.
  
• The main attractions of the Signature are the Text and the Renders. The text you can mess around with all you want, color, border, etc... The renders, not so much. Its best to leave them close to what they were when you plastered them on, maybe a bit of increased contrast, resizing is ok but otherwise leave it be. You may have to generate some lighting effects but don't over do it. The background should be made to fit the renders rather than the other way around. If you go for making the background a somewhat independent part of the sig then this isn't much of a worry (as in, you aren't worried about making the ship seem like its flying around in the background) but otherwise in order to preserve the flow you should have it similar. I've found that blue is a good all around color. it matches well with the metallic colors on most ships and looks cool on its own.
  

Overall good job but its a bit too dark for what I was thinking about.

Thanks for the tips Rand, I hadn't thought about using text like that before... I'll have to experiment a bit.

@Serpentis:
It looks cooler, but the circles don't fit with the rest of it. Text is better, now its just a matter of what font. You fixed up the guy and now he looks like he's behind the border. my only suggestion is to experiment with "vector" artwork in sigs. d/l a bunch of vector brushes and mess around... Good improvements.

Bear in mind that unless something adds to the sig's theme/unity it shouldn't be there. If you have a single circle in the middle of a signature with no other vectory artwork around ti just won't fit in, have more vector stuff around the edges, one of the most common ways of using vector brushes in sigs is behind the main render, it can look really cool when done right.

After messing more with photoshop, I could definitely fix some things- ohh well not like i was gonna win anyways, I have like barely a 1/2 years experience.

- Not Arial..
- And it's a nebula =P

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[Calego]

@ Ivan, make me a signature and I'll grade you...
@ Revan, We all start somewhere, they looking up and following signature tuts thats a great way to learn new effects to use.


EDIT: Alright. New request, lets see how well you guys do with a non Freelancer Sig:

Code:

Size: 200x100
Character: Yoda
Ship: N/A
Text: Calego
Background: N/A
Subtext: "Do, or do not; there is no try..."
Notes: Try some tutorials for this one. I'd try looking for some at DeviantArt, put a link to whatever tutorial you use if you use one, even if you just got an idea from it. Also Link to where you got the Yoda you used, any version of yoda is fine, but no "darth yoda" ones...

This one i may actually use if there's one I really like.

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[Calego]

*Cough cough*bump*Cough Cough Cough*

Anyone want to try out the new one?

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[Serpentis]

First attempt, mostly for funsies:P

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[Calego]

Ack!!! I almost forgot about this thing, its been shoved down... Must Revive!

First attempt, mostly for funsies:P

Heh heh heh... no. Fraid not. For one its not 200x100, for another the text font doesn't really fit IMO... Try again


HEY! EVERYONE! TRY THIS ONE OUT!!!!!

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[Revan]

Ack!!! I almost forgot about this thing, its been shoved down... Must Revive!

Heh heh heh... no. Fraid not. For one its not 200x100, for another the text font doesn't really fit IMO... Try again
HEY! EVERYONE! TRY THIS ONE OUT!!!!!

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As far as the size goes. i don't care - I Had the light engulf his body - sorta.

Lol.. reply?

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