would any of you fine sig makers be willing to create a sig for a final fantasy 11 character? i can e-mail screenshots..... if youre interested in helping me e-mail me at [email protected] or my aim is xxskysetunfoldx we can discuss what im looking for on my sig {please assist}

Requests belong here. (Thread 24163)

good stuff Gina, most encouraging thing is you can see a clear improvement on your work ~

A couple of signatures I've created in the past.

I like your avamatar most.

You like???

heheheheh, made this while listening to the flash gordon theme song. I used CS2 and the Flash Gordon logo.



and another on cs3, also on a new LCD monitor. No renders on either of these, text only.



Made again using only the text that you see and 2 filters. This was 4 layers total.



And another, four words to this one, however the background is a blurred distortion of only "fight fire"

Some icons I made overnight. I have yet to finish this set so I'll either edit this, or post the new ones at a later date.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Major Motoko Kusanagi

This will blow your eyes out. Late night shopin', slept till 3pm today and am now really energized, its now 2:30AM and my book is done, my parents asleep, and thinking I am in bed... Stupid Melatonin cycles...



2words again.


something at 3AM while listening to soft jazz and Celtic rock

Damn you Ryu! you can always make text look really good. ive been stuck using visitor on 10pt.

This is all Times New Roman on a default 12 size. I sometimes free transform it.

Yea thats what i mean, it just baffles me how you do it even when i do the free transform i cant get it to look good
New one :) :

Ewww... Try saving that as a .png. Or at least a higher res than 7Kb. The quality is downed enormously from that. Try to make the text flow a bit more. Like aline some with the hair on the right side of the face, the edge of the face on the left, or the redish dash that currently intersects the text.

hmmm can but try, damn jpg

any better?

Hi, I have a problem. It's not a big problem, but it is a problem. >O

I'm a little unsure of which sig to use, I made both of them myself, but which one do you guys think I should use? The one I have now, or the one below?

tbh id say the one you have now just a personal opinion tho
what happend to that avatar i made you zulu?

... Well I meant to use the rotate, transform and the text warp tools to put the text along the line, don't make the sig form to the text, but the text to the sig.

This entire piece is filters and text tools. No images from other sources.

Two versions. I didn't exactly get the colours that I would like of these, not vibrant enough for me.

My first sig please be gentle.

... Well I meant to use the rotate, transform and the text warp tools to put the text along the line, don't make the sig form to the text, but the text to the sig.

This entire piece is filters and text tools. No images from other sources.

Two versions. I didn't exactly get the colours that I would like of these, not vibrant enough for me.





Ryu, nice works, I see what you mean about the colours though, not your usual colours.

Smarties, for a first time sig, it's not bad, but it could do with a lot more work. If you'd like I'll make you a sig tutorial to show you how to make some decent ones? Theres plenty of effects you can use rather than using brushing but brushing produces more originality if you know what i mean. I don't really like the Noise over the top, it ruins the background. Just send me a PM if you want som brushes or the like

Ichigo from bleach in Bankai form.



I hate using renders so much, filters only.


and another, made off of the word Glisten. Was listening to glisten by Fini Tribe


listening to U2 In the name of Love.
background colours just wouldn't work out

Well I used the film grain to get that grainy old school gargoyles look. these were the prototypes.




I would love some sig tutorials.

www.good-tutorials.com
www.pixel2life.com
www.biorust.com
www.deviantart.com/resources
www.greycobra.com
www.digitalindustries.net

another race by eiffel65

smarties your doing better than i did when i first started, then i bumped into UFFF's full sig tut and i went overboard using that.

smarties your doing better than i did when i first started, then i bumped into UFFF's full sig tut and i went overboard using that.

Can't remember if I posted that on here or not.... I'll have a look lol.

I got outcomes like this from it

hey wait a min howd i make that text look like that.

A present for a friend.

nice work, text blends well
Which is best outta these
V2:
V3:
i havent saved v1 as a png so im not showing it.

I like V2 the most. V3 is almost identical, but not quite.

I need some validation on my current set. I have a couple of other ones, but I thought about use this one for a while.

Feedback would be nice!

v3 has scanlines but thats it i guess it should be called v2.1.
im expecting ryu to say that the text needs blending more but i'll have to wait and see

oh and btw the one that poeple like most will go as my current sig

zulu: the render seems to go well with the bg, i think it is better than the one you had before, do you always make your ava and signiture match? might be something i'll try with v2

Text is sufficiently blended, possibly to subtle though. Only complaint is that the ruffled look to the background could be a tad more distinct. And all that negative space is odd.

lol it is really wierd how i did that smudgeing with a grunge brush its supposed to be goku drawing in power from all the squares but ok it doesnt work. the big void is wierd but im a beginner... lol

No, it isn't my second c4d sig. Its still text, the background is made with ripple, motion blur, and a few other things. The original text is in the top right corner and my name in the oppo corner. No Times New Romans was used in this piece.

hmmmm i like others that you have done more but its still good

For drawing in power, you could try little paths of white dots, the spirit bomb.

well, here are some of mine...




comments/tips/hints are welcome

they look fine to me cept that doll EVIL lol

Just a couple I've done. C+C please

wow liking the 2nd

wow liking the 2nd

Pixel stretch bg, did the blast myself using a crescent shape filled white, did polar to rectangular, then back, then polar to rectangular again. Then feathered and cleared slightly.

My first using Corel Paint shop pro

which is better?

SHNAZZY!

which is better?




If you select the top layer of the first one, by control clicking it, then hit control+alt+d, then enter 25, then hit control+shift+I and hit delete a couple of times you'd get a better effect. Then change the blending mode to Color Dodge, and take a look.

EDIT: Or even something like this, which is completely redoing the top layer with polygonal lasso, feathered by 15, then filled with a white to transparent gradient:

well i tryed to get the kind of effect that you have now but for some reason the layer wouldnt blur :S I'll have a try again sometime soon.

might get rid of the corners (making them transparent) as i think it ruins it

Edit: btw my internets messed up at the moment so i may not be as acttive as hoped but i will still try to keep up with things that are going on

I don't use renders much anymore heh.



Mostly the paint daub filter

hey ryu, have you ever thought of making tutorials as some of your sigs do turn amazing?

I 2nd that motion.

hey ryu, have you ever thought of making tutorials as some of your sigs do turn amazing?

I've got two. They can be found on my deviant art account.

Shinryudan

Link plz.

http://shinryudan.deviantart.com/

Oddly enough lol

Also, Smarties, I'll do you a full sig tut when I've recovered from my hangover. Went for a drink yesterday as it was my birthday on Friday and I'm paying for it today lol.

ahhh deviant art, wait im not exactly sure what it is, all i know is that its a good place for brushes
Happy b'day jimi btw

http://shinryudan.deviantart.com/

Oddly enough lol

Also, Smarties, I'll do you a full sig tut when I've recovered from my hangover. Went for a drink yesterday as it was my birthday on Friday and I'm paying for it today lol.

Well you deserve the kickback w/ exams and all. To bad with the hangover, though HB, I hear there's pills to stop hangovers. IDK if they work.

v1

v2

I can't decide.

Quite honestly, I was struggling to work out exactly what the render was and what the text says. Perhaps making the text stand out a little more, and not placing it over the render?

also i cant see a diffrence between the two.
dont worry im bad at text aswell :)

In V1 I Put the text on top and mad it slightly transparent, v2 I sandwiched the text between 2 layers and faded the taop layer to make the b.g. show and the text more transparent. As for it not looking different IDK it looks more transparent on my PC.

Right, I'll do my full sig tutorial now, as I'm bored lol. There's 2 different one's I can do, so I'll do the easiest one first, then the harder more advanced one after that. They'll both be posted on gfxshop, I'll drop the links here when I've done them.

Combined a bunch of pics on my pc, Made a brick Bg with graffitied tag and Bart and fiddy for the gangstar touch. ^_^

No scanlines


Or with scanlines

u go smarties getting better already just one thing might wanna add a one or 2 pixel black border to it

Yeah Ive been meaning to ask how dow you make those borders, I've been trolling Photoshop cafe but no go. Also thank you.

just select>all then select>modify>border 2px

Oh thanx.

Try a white border to create a contrast with your sig and the rest of the boards.

I couldn't figure out how to work the border, or perhaps I had a different idea what the border was. I want to get a frame in the sig to focus your attention on the sigs middle is that what the border is??

Well, I can barely see it. Try a white one like I said earlier, since the background is so dark it'll have a better contrast.

Or you could make the border bigger.

Like these: ^^



Personally, I like the white border.

Or you could do a border like brotherhood619's avatar in either color and you'd be fine but probably better off with white yet again due to the overall darkness of the signature.

lol thats one of ufff's tutorials in action. i think he's gonna be posting it with the rest of his tuts on the gfxshop so i wont say how to do it until he's finished :)

When I hit border nothing happened, no black border or white border, do I put the border on a new layer or am I doing something wrong?

sorry u have to fill it aswell because its just a selection at the moment i always put it as a new layer just to make things less complicated

Hit CRTL+A first to select the entire canvas, then you should be able to create the border.
You could also create a 5 pixel border, then delete the outside 3 to create a hollow one.


Edit: The border option selects the border with a width that you specify in pixels. You then can fill that with any color of your preference.

Attempt Number 1...I Don't personally like this one.



Attempt Number 2...I like this one a bit more. It has some issues with colours, but I can't fix 'em.

Sorry about my recent inactivity guys, I've been busy with coursework, and really I still am. I won't bother with the tutorials on GFXShop, I'll just post them here for ease. Should have one up in a little while

It depends if they will let you put them on here as it isnt a graphics forum

Ryu: there not my favs of your but they still could be used

Hey I like them Ryu, especially the second one the distorted vanishing point sucks you into those elusive colors, well here is my siggy.

Here's one I made earlier! ;)

That is nice What text is that?

Smarties made mine. And it is the shit. Good work!

What the hell....I'll throw mine up. My brother made this one and sent it to me. It keeps getting funnier every time I see it, ya know?

Thtat's soon to be removed for sig rule breach. Read em and weep

what was it?

I wanna know, did I miss something funny.

also @ byrd you have no Idea how hard it was to rip him from the background :p

im guessing nudity
edit: hey i cant find the sig rules :S

Sig rules state that:

The limits on signatures are that they can't be any bigger than 400x150 pixels, and the file size must be no larger than 50kb.

That guys was huge, something like 400x450 pixels and a massive 800kb

how is that a sig!!!

I don't think it can be classed as a sig.....

LR, the font on the sig above is called 'A Damn Mess' and may be found here (http://www.dafont.com/a-damn-mess.font) sir.

Oh first reading that I thought you said, "your sig is a damn mess" I was gonna be like :mad: Oh but that nice to now, I might use it.

The sig you made is cool, but there are more effects out there than scan lines ;)

yeah I'm taking baby steps, looking for more and more tutorial


Anybody know tutorials on animated sigs?

I havent found one for ages but should be simple if you know how to use image ready. if your thinking about just animation then it all can be done in image ready otherwise u'll have to use both

try searching for it here

www.pixel2life.com
www.good-tutorials.com
www.biorust.com
www.google.com

Lol @ google but thanks.

had some fun. first wall in ages.

What's your deal with abstract emotion Ryu, I've seen you use it a lot.

I don't know. I think I'll name my V.3 website after it.

And another wall. This one was like 80 layers.

How is that 80 layers?

Start with only text and get to filtering.

i just dont know how people can go into 60-70 layers with walls, jeese then again ive seen some people go that far on sigs :S

Its not hard, when I hit something I don't like I use a lot of filters and colour layers and maps and masks on it until it looks totally different. That usually takes about 15 layers.

when i have 10 layers i feel like I've used too much.

15 layers is usually my limit. Mine's still pretty crap but hey.

ok i know this is the sig showoff but im gonna show the ava that i did from a tut

pretty simple but i think its effective

I have to say wow. I started off here on the last page and worked my way back about 30 pages and damn. There are some fantastic sig makers here. Awesome stuff. Keep it up.

I wonder how I'd go at making them... will have to give it a try.

I have to say wow. I started off here on the last page and worked my way back about 30 pages and damn. There are some fantastic sig makers here. Awesome stuff. Keep it up.

Im sure everyone likes doing what they do, but the odd good comment really makes them feel good so thanks.


I wonder how I'd go at making them... will have to give it a try.

Get Photoshop or GIMP and you can basically start messing around with the settings then after your familiar with the program ask again here and someone will point you in the right direction

Yeah I've got Photoshop CS2 lol. I edit things for my photography stuff. I know how to use it, but never worked with stuff like this though. Animated stuff I mean. Will give it a go at some point though.

Lots of tuts on the web, Shinryu needs to be put in lamen terms it's hella hard, I can't get shit right. And I can't even see UFFF's tut, GFXshop is like not in service or something.


Oh yeah I made this like 2 weeks ago, but it was too big, but I want comments.
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q92/Holysoldier000/Megaman-tribute.gif

pretty good good for the animation but mabey you should have it as it moving one pixel per frame its what i always do :) GFXshop works fine for me now try again with it

I tried but that is hella of a lot of frames, also my hand's pretty fidgety.

just use the arrow keys while on the move tool every press makes it move 1px

oh damn I figured there'd be an easier way, I'll update/fix the pic later.

Next one up this ones diffrent from the ones i usually make.
.jpg:


.png:

Nice. How'd you get that double border.

just by using selections, something i learned off ufff

I only use about 5-7 layers when I make sigs.
I always wonder why people love so much layers.

I only use about 5-7 layers when I make sigs.
I always wonder why people love so much layers.

Personally I use filters and lots of correction layers. I just let myself go and usually don't have an idea where it will go.

I have a friend who's going to be making me one :D

Woo!

Why not try it yourself?
It's pretty easy actually when you get into it.

Why not try it yourself?
It's pretty easy actually when you get into it.

yea same thought here an easy one to make would probably be a pixel stretch i can show you a tutorial if you want

There are many tutorial sites on the net too. ^_^ It won't hurt trying. Besides, you will learn it fast. Trust me. I mastered almost all the basic skills in 1 month (and I only open computer twice a week).
so, why not try it out? ^_^

Just made sigs with people are hard imo, a lot less stuff you can do.

I only use like 2 or 3 layers when I make sigs, here are 3 I've made... (the one I'm using was made by my friend in another forum)

Smarties: Looks good, and you're good with the layering, but it just needs a border to look more complete.

Gharmos: Sorry, but most of those look unfinished and they need some polishing.

A friend of mine made these for me a couple of years ago, and I was just wondering which one of these you guys liked the most:

http://i17.tinypic.com/3ypdij4.gif

http://i9.tinypic.com/48cioag.gif

http://i19.tinypic.com/2zz0wzo.gif

I might switch between these three, currently I'm using the blue one.

i like the gold/yellow one better
gharmos: out of them 3 id say the fist one was the best but what did you use to cut out the images in the 2nd/3rd one?
I wouldnt try to go to far with the borders a simple black 1px can work better than a real fancy one

I cut them out manually in normal paint. I didn't know how to cut them out otherwise.

some fun. Unfortunately its rather bright so you won't be able to see it too well on here.

I like the use of colors looks very crystaline/celestial.

This was a screen shot of my desktop that was filtered and twisted beyond recognition.

It's beautiful, my only complain would be that the border vanished in contrast to the dark background of the forum. You should consider putting a white border on the outside, as the it would make the green one more visible.

Here are some of my sigs; I was hoping to know what you guys think of them...







If you wat to see more; just go to my photobucket :); the link is:

http://s124.photobucket.com/albums/p33/Miyata-kun/

pretty nice although im not a big fan of grunge, you'll have to show me how to do some of your effects sometime :)

Real nice. I like it.

I try not to go for grundge, but more for smudged effects ;).

a new one i did, i think you can only like it if its your type of thing

Also one i wasnt gonna post but thought what the hell

comments on both please

I like the first one the mew is awesome,

The second one nice, the irregular shape is cool.

Nice sigs there brotherhood619 and thanks again for my one!

I cut them out manually in normal paint. I didn't know how to cut them out otherwise.

excelent job I love this one

meh i got a few i can show off i guess....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v43/thedarkone/highwind.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v43/thedarkone/a12d8bea.gif



*these are from another forum i made for...*

try adding more than one colour on your stuff. Its nice to see that you got borders down. Also if you are using photoshop, try out using the filters.

Filters only on this one, that and some paint bucket.

I Wanna learn how to use borders someone please help.

GIMP or photoshop?

Photoshop what's GIMP?

Gimp's like photoshop except free, pretty handy if you dont want to fork out for photoshop, borders dont have to be fancy like in shinryudans, i cant do them. i just do a normal 1px black border. one thing i did try out tho is flattening the image then bevelling it. could give a nice result, its what i did on my mew one.

Yeah I got one to come out like that but I can't get PS to make any border at all.

Go to

CTRL+SHIFT+N (this makes a new layer)
CTRL+A (this selects the entire area)
Edit>Stroke (border maker)
Set the colour to Black and the stroke to INSIDE

Hit OK


Thread 25246

Thanks ryu with your help I made this

pretty nice smarties uve made a decent sig maker out of your self, now all i think you need is more experience, its not easy to get, i still aint got it lol

Lol now what are these "brush" things I heard of I mean what do they do make a grainy texture or just make the paint colors lighter?

brushes are basically diffrent ways of putting a colour onto your canvas, your circular brush that comes with photoshop is one, people make all types of brushes from stars to grunge effects, they can sometimes be used for making a background, i make a layer with one colour then brush over it with a black coloured grunge brush.

i personnally dont exactly like them as if you make a background out of your render then it sorta blends more. brushes are mostly down to taste i think.

you can get some good ones from deviant art and places like that.

ooh thanks.

These are made using the brush tool.

Note the leaf looking images in here, that is the maple leaf brush.


This explosion is entirely made of brushes.


The tech pieces in the background are all brushes.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h177/Shinryudan/sig2gt.gif

The white broken texture in this is a brush.


The paint blobs here are also brushes.


brushes are like a paint brush, some are literally in the shape of a paint brush and give you the same texture. Some are like a pencil or pen that you can draw with. others hold a specialized shape that acts like a stamp.

poooh I may d/l some soon. Looks fun.

http://22pixels.com/flock.php

bout 2000 brushes and 150 fonts

hell thats alot

hell thats alot

Made this tonight, personally I loved it until I started to place the text. Text sucked.

I looks great to me...

jeese even on your bad days with text it still looks good

http://sixpop.com/images/images/48582391.gif

Made purely with brushes, the gradient tool and filters (and of course blending options) oh and desaturated. ^^

I don't like the repetition of the brush. It is a nice brush, but I see it like 3 straight times in there and it seems tedious towards the 3rd. The colours are subtle, which is nice, but you might want to make the stuff a little less grainy and a bit more smooth.



I know, it looks like a collage, but there are a lot of effects on those stocks.

I don't like the repetition of the brush. It is a nice brush, but I see it like 3 straight times in there and it seems tedious towards the 3rd. The colours are subtle, which is nice, but you might want to make the stuff a little less grainy and a bit more smooth.

I havent used the same brush more then once but it looks like 1 bit repeats, and its a grunge brush so you'd expect it to be kinda grainy...Thanks though. ^_^

First time I've used the smudge tool in about 8 months. A couple filters in this one, but mostly just gaussian and motion blurs.

Just made this thing because the forum wont let me have my normal sig.

pretty nice kind reminds me of the one i did a while back
Edit: new one done for SOTW at another site
V1:
V2:

Made a new bruce one.

Good blending and use of colours. It just needs a border to complete it.

Just trying out the pixel stretch C+C as with all of them

Don't really like the texture on the stretch. Also, try adding something over the stretch so that it is not that visible.

Fun with the marquee tool, and filters.

you mean the brush that i put behind it?

damn you like your transparency

ya brush.

So wait you can d/l filters too? because I've never seen some of these filters.

ya brush.

I just put that there so it wasnt plain but oh well


So wait you can d/l filters too? because I've never seen some of these filters.

mabey, i cant say its not possible.

So wait you can d/l filters too? because I've never seen some of these filters.

Thats a combination of the default filters. Follow this guide for the basic background.


^I didn't make that, a buddy did.

Anyways after that I just experiment with what you can do.


Yes you can download filters and some are actually pretty fun. Not many of them are free though, and even the fun ones aren't normally usable.

May as well bump it a bit. Been almost 8 days.
V1


V2

not really the kinda thing i go for shinryudan but good job anyway

Something to do for one of my other forums. I'm not that keen on it to be honest but it was a quick 2 minute throwtogether

ahhh the old placeholder text

lorem ipsum dotor sit amet... Good old random non-conjugated latin. That's a weird sig. Hey Jimmy, whatever happened to that gfxshop site you made, I went looking for it a few weeks ago and it is gone?

Tried out }SoV{Saint's "Samus Smudge" tut, but with a few twists. I used a maple leaf brush (custom made, not the default) instead of an X. I also added a few mmore blur layers.

I've got the corrected link in my signiture jimi's just not fixed his link.
the whole damn thing messed up so jimi had to reinstall it you will have to register again :S

That sig looks ace better than the last one me thinks

Jeff's back, I've been confined from the web, someone with a wireless network firewalled me, but I'm using someone elses.











I know ryu didn't ask for one but (ryu)(dan) get it?

lol nice work smarties i'm sure shinryudan doesnt mind he's an alright guy

With the first one I tried to make it transparent, but the matte showed up under it in the "save for web" screen. How do you make it transparent?

just save it as .png dont think the matte will matter its just a way for photoshop to show transparency

also make sure that it is transparent in the background so that you can see the checkerboard behind it. Also check the box that says transparency.

made in like 2 minutes.

New set. The old set sucked, it was just something I threw together so I wouldn't look like a COMPLETE noob.

Old:



New:

Nice work smarties
xLordCJx: definate improvement on the second one especially with the text. you havent got any text or a border on the avatar

I reallly like the brush work, I've been meaning to try some brushes myself but I'm a procrastinator.

I took a few captures with "Video Redo Plus" unfortunately I found out that cable TV quality is pretty horrid. So since doing some renders of it wasn't possible, I figured some signatures wouldn't be that bad. This is from the final episode in the American series, FLClimax.

STOCK ()



And another.
STOCK ()

Here's my latest:

fresh from shop.

mabey your best so far smarties?

I Photoshop NES screenshots I take with my emulator. One screenshot usually takes me about 15 minutes depending on what I change. I'm trying to figure out super-imposition so I can start using sprites to create better pictures. Eventually I'll get it.

i dont think its really that hard to use sprites i do it quite a bit, if you need any help with anything just pm me :)

i dont think its really that hard to use sprites i do it quite a bit, if you need any help with anything just pm me :)

I'll definitely consider that. Once I finish building my sprite library, I'll PM you and you can help me out. I also give you credit for your time.

New sig using a tut I found. C+C pleases

2 of the things ive done scince last i posted up a sig


^^seriously like this one^^

My latest.

pretty nice colours blend well not sure about the text above and below the main text tho

Yeah I'm thinkin' of editing that.



Little better.

Less bubble-texty.

Fixed up the color balance too, so her head isn't lit up like a light bulb but the rest of her isn't as desaturated.

better what is that text supposed to say anyway? or just random text?

It's the lyrics to the opening theme of Stand Alone Complex. I think it's Russian for

"The only one who doesn't know happiness
Is the one who couldn't understand it's call."


EDIT:

Got another one.

I'm churnin' out a lot of these today.

you seem to like that background effect, want to share it with the rest of us shrine'er's? ;)

Hmm... I used a tutorial for it but for the render blending I just did my own thing, but heres the tutorial.

http://www.22pixels.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1051

You need to work on your text placement and the fonts as well. Also try working on some effects for it so it can stand out a bit more. I don't like the repeated theme the signatures seem to take. All are motion blurred in the same direction. Try to get the renders to flow. With the master chief, set the angle with his rifle, for yuna, with the gun. For the Battousai one, set the angle to follow his arm.

With flow, look for the straighter areas of a render, these stand out more when flow is not matched, therefore hide them with a flow in that direction.


A new stock manip. I took the capture again.

A random Vert sig I found in my photobucket.

hmmmm not bad infact i like it im gonna have to try something like that

The text is great, but try to give some colour to that white haze at the top.

This is part one of a two part tutorial to create this piece.



Found here.

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53090452/

Do not img tag it to this site, just follow the links.

ermmm ryu are you showing that you made a tut out of that piece or just showing it?

Tutorial, follow the link.

Here's mine



c&c appreciated

Needs resizing i know but i like this one better

this one was longer until cut it down because of all the blank space.
Magic slap: thats pretty nice like the star brushes.

Magic Slap
Try to blend in the render a bit more. I don't really like the over use of the ripple.

Brotherhood
You see, I did a double take when I saw this from you. This is really really well done. Only a few small problems I see. Try lifting some of that smudge off of the render, it gives it way too much of a shadowed feeling to it. Other than that, nice job.

a double take? whats that lol. anyway thanks for the comment, it just seemed to work :S mabey jessicas just my girl lol

There should be a seperate forum for sigs and the like. :P

Three versions
v.1


v.2- Slightly darker


v.3 Even more slightly darker. :P


Another one..

Couldn't get the effect I was going for to work out. :(


People liked this so I'll post it O_o

Made Spiderman one first
then the Robot one
Then the FF one. =P

C/c and stuff please?

They are awesome man great job.

Also prak is a faggot.

Twbm: They all look good, spiderman ones my fav though, keep up the good work

prak hater: im guessing you put that comment about prak on all of your posts

really good. Twbm how'd you get those effects

I suppose i could show what i've made recently .__.;;




This one was for a friend of mine. She loves Alice in Wonderland.






This was more of a banner then signature .__.;; Sorry...

These are all very good especially the banner.

I think it's a bit excessive, but I like it.

Another one. nothing special it started out way different.

These Aren't to bad. A bit simple for signatures, but they are good still. Better then when I started off. XD

really good. Twbm how'd you get those effects

A lot of it is brushing mixed with filters.

Instead of just adding a filter, try playing around with different blending effects.

Located Here:



In order to get a good effect, you'll need to experiment with multiple types of the same layer.

For instance, notice the layers named 'Layer 3, Layer 3 copy,' and 'Layer 3 copy 2.'

They're all the same layer, but just different blending effects added to them.

The original Layer 3 is the layer of the Prince with the smudging around the edges (to make it blend with background). The Copy is the original render (focus image, in this case, a cut out of the Prince) but set on the blending mode 'Soft Light.' Soft Light allows the layer to blend with the layers below it by making it slightly transparent.

I'll try to show you some stages.

This is what it looks like with 'Layer 3 copy' and 'Layer 3 copy 2' turned off:



This is what it looks like with just 'Layer 3 copy 2' turned off, and Layer 3 and Layer 3 copy turned on:



And this is what it looks like with all three layers visible (final product):



For the record, 'Layer 3 copy' and 'Layer 3 copy 2' are both set to 'Soft Light.' This is what it looks like with all three 'Layer 3's' set to Soft Light:



Try experimenting with multiple types of the same layer but on different blending settings.

Also, I noticed that with the Squall signature you used the entire image and not just a render. If you want to use renders, which is highly recommended, register on http://planetrenders.net/renders/index.php

This is the same image as what you had, just without the background.

If you use renders, it allows for easy duplication methods and they're just easier to work with.



I hope I explained it well enough.

lol thats the same image that i tried to render the hair is definatly hard

Yeah, using the pen tool on that might be really difficult.

Its not too bad. I did that one awhile back. The whip is the hardest part

whip? do you mean thing in the back of his hair?

The blades. Sorry I'm thinking about another pose of him. the blades are a whip.

this just couldn't do what I wanted

^one for a clan member^

^one for kamegi^

smarites the background really doesnt fit the render sorry

To be honest i think ive found my style i like it

Yeah I did that after nothing seemed to flow right, I used the dissolve layer for the white specs and vivid light darked the colors, so you can barely see that that b/g is actually Fayt Gaussian blurred. If you look closely to the white spots you can see his vest.

Fayt is by far the hardest subject

here's v1



v2



and v3



new one(s) for the weekend

Nice work smarties, I like the Spiderman one, and the Wolverine one would be good if the render was like v1 darker over the brushed background, like in v3

Thanks I've been trying new gimmicks, changing layer styles and brushing and whatnot, also how do you link layers?

theres a little chain icon that you can click somewhere but ive never botherd to use it

Next to the little brush Icon that shows up to let you know what layer you're working on, there's a little empty box. Click that and it'll link whatever layers you click it on.

nice x-men

Thank you, I've been trying to do gargoyles but their renders are non-existant
I really like this one, it's actually good in black and white.

and

today in ten minutes i might add.

Newest.

Holy shit what is that, it looks great but creepy great.

hmmm nice work :P I might have to try something like that think i know how you did it tho the part at the bottom left of the text gives it away

hmmm nice work :P I might have to try something like that think i know how you did it tho the part at the bottom left of the text gives it away

Oh crap I didn't even see that. XD EDIT: Fixed.

And Smarties, thats a render of Raiden from Metal Gear Solid 4. Yeah he does look a bit creepy in this one, probably because he has artificial blood.

These are plain but I like the nonetheless.





also I know it doesn'y sound like much but I put the yellow in batman's chest, I mean just so you know:)

I liked my sig so much I made it my sig

The car is blended well, not sure about the batman one tho. The one in your sig is probably your best so far

I dont know y but the board sent me 6 reply to subscription emails for one post :S

Oh I think I know, the first was borderless so I added a border, then I had to keep it under the sig limit which made no sense, PS said the size was 48.6 but FFS said it was larger than 50 kbs, yea so six sounds about right.

Edit perhaps I should have darkened the b/g a bit for the the batman sig.