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Ello people ^__^ even though i've been lurking around enough in the Artists Corner ive never really made anything myself (besides a few minor things ^^) sooo, here is my first sig / first time working with photoshop.

Tell me what you people think, and what i could and should improve

Not bad for a first time sig

Although it doesn't really blend very well, your character needs to "fit in" better with the rest of the sig IMO.

Tasdik wrote:Not bad for a first time sig

Although it doesn't really blend very well, your character needs to "fit in" better with the rest of the sig IMO.

Any suggestions on how i can make it blend in better ? ^__^ Gaussian Blur etc kinda blur the charackter itself aswell, the edges on the very least

Pretty nice for a first one. Since the background is being a darkish color.. I see decent blending. The text also seems in place, and it has a nice little atmosphere.
Nice for a first one. What program are you using?

Melez wrote:Pretty nice for a first one. Since the background is being a darkish color.. I see decent blending. The text also seems in place, and it has a nice little atmosphere.
Nice for a first one. What program are you using?

CS4 ^^ photoshop

It's really good for a first sig.

*looks back at first sig*

Mhh, im working on a second sig atm, though - its not complete, missing something, yet i dont really know what xD

here's what i got so far ^^ any suggestions on what i should add / what i could improve on what ive done so far ? ^__^

LillDev!l wrote:Mhh, im working on a second sig atm, though - its not complete, missing something, yet i dont really know what xD

here's what i got so far ^^ any suggestions on what i should add / what i could improve on what ive done so far ? ^__^

Starting to look good already. He still seems to be like slammed on the bg.

DumboDii wrote:

LillDev!l wrote:Mhh, im working on a second sig atm, though - its not complete, missing something, yet i dont really know what xD

here's what i got so far ^^ any suggestions on what i should add / what i could improve on what ive done so far ? ^__^

Starting to look good already. He still seems to be like slammed on the bg.

Any suggestions how to fix that?
I read in some tutorial that i can try to select the edges of kenpachi > around him > Gaussian blur, but that really dint turn out to nice, want it have to a powerfull look aswell

EDIT : added it with text, tell me what you think about the text ^__^

OMG is that the pentool you used on your first sig? I didn't get the pentool until my 8~10th sig. But your renders aren't blending in too well in the background. Try blur>layer to screen>new layer>apply image> layer to darken. Also text. Use simple text, fancy text takes away from from the sig, you'll have much more time to use fancy texts when your a master, but as of now focus on text placement. Speaking of text placement always place text a good bit away from the focuse but not too far away and when choosing text color try to use colors that don't contrast too much with the main colors, and if you do then lower the opacity of the text.

.Banshee wrote:OMG is that the pentool you used on your first sig? I didn't get the pentool until my 8~10th sig. But your renders aren't blending in too well in the background. Try blur>layer to screen>new layer>apply image> layer to darken. Also text. Use simple text, fancy text takes away from from the sig, you'll have much more time to use fancy texts when your a master, but as of now focus on text placement. Speaking of text placement always place text a good bit away from the focuse but not too far away and when choosing text color try to use colors that don't contrast too much with the main colors, and if you do then lower the opacity of the text.

Dint use pentool yet ^^
And ups the way i used my text is kind of the oposite of what you said ^^
Ill go fool around a bit again ^__^ see what i can do Thnx for the help

EDIT: think it blends a bit better like this ?
I set the new layer to overlay though, instead of Darken, imo it looked better ^^

In my opinion that looks better.

Lot better KIU !!