' Wrote:well, you didn't ask for a glowey blue outline
oh quit whining its a simple job that anyone can do.
All it means is that you need to step up your game. There are many great sig makers on the forums and almost everyone on disco knows a little bit of photoshop.
Its great that you figured what he did to make it look better so just take it as a lesson learned.
when merging two totally different images even if they are related in some way, you must make the picture look as one and that requires some special effects, glow, shadow, lighting effects, toning etc. or else it will always look as if you cut out a pic off a magazine and pasted it on a pretty arty background.