First Sig...Ever(now with second ever. Numba 3!)

Ell · Post by **Ell** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:55 am

Well I just "got" ps yesterday because making sigs seemed to be all the rage and looked pretty fun, so here's my first try, with the help of some informative tuts.
Comments? I know the brush work is really sloppy and I did a bunch of random filters and layer styles to it because all of them looked cool

[SD]Twysta · Post by **[SD]Twysta** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:38 am

Hmm not bad i must say

You can tell youre not an experienced PSer but it looks pretty decent for your first try

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:40 am

Twysta, no offence. But if you made your own sig. His > Yours. (Matter of taste of course)

Priam · Post by **Priam** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:09 pm

TwelveEleven wrote:Twysta, no offence. But if you made your own sig. His > Yours. (Matter of taste of course)

erm.. was that really necessary?

Anyway, aced it for a first try m8, go and make some more.

rek · Post by **rek** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:17 pm

Its not decent, its more than that.

8/10

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:27 pm

Priam wrote:
TwelveEleven wrote:Twysta, no offence. But if you made your own sig. His > Yours. (Matter of taste of course)

erm.. was that really necessary?

Anyway, aced it for a first try m8, go and make some more.

Pardon me, he says i can see you're not an experienced photoshopper.. I just wanted to prove him wrong. As I actually think it's great. Especially for a first one.. So yes it was really necessary

shadowman20875 · Post by **shadowman20875** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:46 pm

That probably took you longer than I have with every photoshop project I have ever done in my entire life up to the next 25 years.

GJ.

bladecarlo · Post by **bladecarlo** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:49 pm

w0w nice for a 1st try 8/10.

CrimsonNuker · Post by **CrimsonNuker** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 4:15 pm

TwelveEleven wrote:
Priam wrote:
TwelveEleven wrote:Twysta, no offence. But if you made your own sig. His > Yours. (Matter of taste of course)

erm.. was that really necessary?

Anyway, aced it for a first try m8, go and make some more.

Pardon me, he says i can see you're not an experienced photoshopper.. I just wanted to prove him wrong. As I actually think it's great. Especially for a first one.. So yes it was really necessary

No shit hes not experienced, its his FIRST sig. <_< gg.

Dystopia · Post by **Dystopia** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:03 pm

For a first 10/10, stick to it man, you'll me backing alot of great sigs, just stick to it..

Ell · Post by **Ell** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:57 pm

Thanks for the replies, here's my second try, so hard to make smudging look good

CrimsonNuker · Post by **CrimsonNuker** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:03 pm

its a bit over contrasted near the shoulders

shadowman20875 · Post by **shadowman20875** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:18 pm

The second one can do with some more blending. Also personally I don't like that much gradiented empty space. The guy's pitching hand is a little weird, over sharpened maybe?

SuicideGrl · Post by **SuicideGrl** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:13 am

shadowman20875 wrote:Also personally I don't like that much gradiented empty space

+1. some more texture at the edges of the sig would be nice, some light brushing maybe. but as a first attempt you pwned my 1st... 8.5/10.

StealMySoda · Post by **StealMySoda** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:34 am

Very nice for a first try

Ell · Post by **Ell** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:41 am

Third one, urgh this is kinda addicting.

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:12 am

You either follow great tuts, or youve been making sigs before o__O This is great.

aazumak · Post by **aazumak** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:42 am

i dont like the ext to much, but thats honestly a great sig!

never seen a 3rd being that good, that is amazing dude!
its very simple and its good that way!

it so clean

great A+

the.dead.illusion · Post by **the.dead.illusion** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:58 am

nicely done

BrokenSaint · Post by **BrokenSaint** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:00 am

Ell that 24 sig is just superior. Kudos to you.

TwelveEleven · Post by **TwelveEleven** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:36 pm

what tuts you been doing?

SuicideGrl · Post by **SuicideGrl** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:59 pm

shadows = teh awesome. love the brushing on the BG and the lightsource is about perfect.

9/10. <shakes fist at you for being soo good so early>

Ell · Post by **Ell** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:41 pm

Here's the tut for the 24 one http://img349.imageshack.us/img349/1512/tut4gz.jpg but when following tuts, it never seems to look as good as the tut unless you have the exact same render so I changed a lot of things in it. Also the lighting was really easy because it was so obvious on the render. They also never tell you how to smudge, so that part took forever editing and reediting it to look good.
Edit:

CrimsonNuker · Post by **CrimsonNuker** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:06 pm

Light source is just about perfect, but its kinda empty imo

Snudge · Post by **Snudge** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:35 am

Woah, that one's amazing Ell, could you post the original image for comparison? ^-^