NSR ~ Potential sigwars {Updated}

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:44 pm

Old one:

New one:

Do you like it? Might put this one up in sigwars instead of the mozilla > microsoft one..

Btw, I always thought NSR meant New Sig Request.. As it was used on another forum I used to visit..

Grim · Post by **Grim** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:21 pm

No, Its New Sig Rate..

But anyway, if it was request, then you would be writing down specifications for us to create a sig for you.

And just so you know, Use your Mozzarella Stick (lol, the Mozilla) > Microsoft one.

This one too plain, not much on it.

4/10

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:52 pm

I know, just couldn't decide which kinda background would go with it

. Maybe a playground or something I dunno.. Any suggestions?

And any suggestions for the moz > mic one?

Grim · Post by **Grim** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:58 pm

Umm, lets see.....

Namco:
Creates video/arcade games

(Whats with the child, and why add a playground in background??)

I'd say have Namco Sprites doing a fight in background with Capcom.

Maybe keep the child in front to keep it PG. (adds to the laughability)

I dont know... -.-

I have to go back to a party pretty soon..

We celebrating 4th of July here in USA.. It's the date the Americans gained there independance from Britain...

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:05 am

Check my new one..

Grim that's totally not the idea about this sig, I want it to be simple.. Not too complicated with too much movement in it.. (Since i already made one of those..)

Post by **dom** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:24 am

Sig making does require some what of an imagination and artistic feel. I don't think it would be right to judge your motives for picking the subjects in your sig, I think it's better to critique the technical aspect of it.

With that said, there's a couple small things you could do to make it better:
*centre the "namco". The blue background should be equal in pixel width on both sides.

*Try to space out the letters. At the size, the space between each letter should be more then what it is now. Because it's so narrow the blue dots in the back are contrasting too much with the letters.

*There should be space between the top edge of the sig, and the black girl.

*Resize the text to make the last line of pixels in her foot be on the same line as the red 1px line on the bottom of the text. An easy way to do this, would be to take your original: with the marquee tool, remove the non-100%-opacity line under he foot; ctrl + click the namco layer, select>contract>1 px, fill the selection with the bucket tool, contract by 1 pixel again, and press delete.

*The "sharing your dream" is fine, I applaud you on that. Although I don't like the font, it's done well. I'm a horrible sig designer, and by far a real one. I'm a webdesigner and i've been at it for a long time. Typography an aspect of graphic design that many sig designers have problems with. When you use a font that is detailed like that, or very "serif", it's best to use it at a font big like that. It's clearer and easier to read.

Grim · Post by **Grim** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:37 pm

Wow, Nice constructive criticism...
You had some good points..

Yeah, TwelveEleven (I need to find you a nickname, twelveEleven taking too long to type) it looks way better with the background.

I have to disagree with dom, on the Sharing your dream font, I actually think that the font is perfect.

Don't change it, It adds to it's appeal.

Looks great, maybe you should submit this one instead of Mozilla>Microsoft.

There both really good, I don't know anymore. :banghead:

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:48 pm

dom wrote:Sig making does require some what of an imagination and artistic feel. I don't think it would be right to judge your motives for picking the subjects in your sig, I think it's better to critique the technical aspect of it.

With that said, there's a couple small things you could do to make it better:
*centre the "namco". The blue background should be equal in pixel width on both sides. what do you mean? Raise it?

*Try to space out the letters. At the size, the space between each letter should be more then what it is now. Because it's so narrow the blue dots in the back are contrasting too much with the letters.it's the namco logo

*There should be space between the top edge of the sig, and the black girl. Done

*Resize the text to make the last line of pixels in her foot be on the same line as the red 1px line on the bottom of the text. An easy way to do this, would be to take your original: with the marquee tool, remove the non-100%-opacity line under he foot; ctrl + click the namco layer, select>contract>1 px, fill the selection with the bucket tool, contract by 1 pixel again, and press delete. done

*The "sharing your dream" is fine, I applaud you on that. Although I don't like the font, it's done well. I'm a horrible sig designer, and by far a real one. I'm a webdesigner and i've been at it for a long time. Typography an aspect of graphic design that many sig designers have problems with. When you use a font that is detailed like that, or very "serif", it's best to use it at a font big like that. It's clearer and easier to read. So you think that's actually good?

Thanks for the comment, You took your time

. I appreciate it

I kinda need that anyways, like yourself i'm not much of a sig maker, more of a web designer. I'm good at making layouts, but i suck at coding them..

V3:

rek · Post by **rek** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:54 pm

TwelveEleven wrote:
dom wrote:Sig making does require some what of an imagination and artistic feel. I don't think it would be right to judge your motives for picking the subjects in your sig, I think it's better to critique the technical aspect of it.

With that said, there's a couple small things you could do to make it better:
*centre the "namco". The blue background should be equal in pixel width on both sides. what do you mean? Raise it?

*Try to space out the letters. At the size, the space between each letter should be more then what it is now. Because it's so narrow the blue dots in the back are contrasting too much with the letters.it's the namco logo

*There should be space between the top edge of the sig, and the black girl. Done

*Resize the text to make the last line of pixels in her foot be on the same line as the red 1px line on the bottom of the text. An easy way to do this, would be to take your original: with the marquee tool, remove the non-100%-opacity line under he foot; ctrl + click the namco layer, select>contract>1 px, fill the selection with the bucket tool, contract by 1 pixel again, and press delete. done

*The "sharing your dream" is fine, I applaud you on that. Although I don't like the font, it's done well. I'm a horrible sig designer, and by far a real one. I'm a webdesigner and i've been at it for a long time. Typography an aspect of graphic design that many sig designers have problems with. When you use a font that is detailed like that, or very "serif", it's best to use it at a font big like that. It's clearer and easier to read. So you think that's actually good?

Thanks for the comment, You took your time . I appreciate it

I kinda need that anyways, like yourself i'm not much of a sig maker, more of a web designer. I'm good at making layouts, but i suck at coding them..

V3:

No, dont raise it. Its not in the middle, its closer to the right side than the left.

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:58 pm

O thanks

V3.1: