Saint_Michael

well the pop up you were trying to didn't work due to 3 things1. background needs to be transparent2. Go to image then canvas to change the overall size of the sig to set up the transparent background3. save as a png for overall quality.But with this sig in general though, the render itself was a bad choice due to the white halo that goes around it, the screen fill that you use makes the sig less attractive due to it making all the colors dull in appearance. The text need some work as well like stroke around hte text a drop shadow to stand out just a bit. The background even though nice with the blue maybe mixing in more different shadows of blue would help it out just a bit more. and the top part of the sig doesn't give the pop-out effect that your looking for. read up on some tutorials on how pop ups are done and you will see what you did wrong.i agree 3/10 fits this

Alright the time has come this is a pretty good response mostly fresh faces as members and sig designers as well. So here are the rules for voting the top 3. RULES 1. First 3 to 7 votes go to the finals 2. In the finals first one to seven wins the grand prize then the second and third place will be determine by the number of votes they recieve. 3. If their happens to be any ties during any round I will give the final vote(s). 4. You must have a reason for your vote to be counted. So here are the entries for Saint-Michael Invitational Sig Tournament TrueFusion SarCasM bluhapp mayank rejected samma Moody SnXster Good Luck and lets have some fun.

actually was going a for a holiday look due to the xmas render i used, but green wouldn't show up as good as it should have, well actually the legs were cut off so try to blend it as best i could, but this is more like a pre workings of a tech sig gone wrong but i find it a unique pop out sig for my taste as least.with the render though i had to fit it to scale due to the large size it was originally. but yeah i could have just went more grunge then abstract/grunge due to the brush that i used for this.

groovy man its like from the 60's like far out, actually thats not a bad design you should enter the SOTW we have going you could have some good competition for thos who enter them.10/10 for its groovy design and most unique desgin as well.

that can be your assisstant opa got to have sexy secretary for business expenses . well it was that or a render with more reveiling stuff in it and i don't think you could control yourself with here . j/kbut i believe the space i gave this sig is good enough not comprimise anything, of course a link would be suffcient they don't need to show it.On a side note if i may ever since Goostaf made that post about sig blocks, people are questioning the need for them, again if you don't want to look at sig blocks turn them off its that simple.

well hee is a sig that i just finished after i got back from surgery this one wasa woprk in progress before i left so i just finished it up enjoy.

my first gift sig since my surgery so i thought and i promise this individual his sig. enjoy

i smell a 3-peat and back to back with this one

and let me guess you want the prayer in school ten commandments out of courts and in god we trust taken off the currency as well?its a holiday dude its people like you that ruin everyones fun, hell if the catholics didn't want the holiday to exsist then they would had made sure of that back in the day well they didn't, let everyone enjoy being dead and what that passage is referring to which mind you was most likly added during the 1100-1700's was the practice of pagenism and not follow the christan path (the withc burnings and all that stuff).but it brings to point why people are not trying to erase holidays just cuz it not christian like and its somewhat a govermnet holiday (try to swing that one).

hmm maybe i shouldn't have said anything well you know im a honest guy but congrads true your first tab.

you sure thats the reason (maybe forget where you put the pasword to your account here ) anywaysWell the big issue i see you having well for at least this group of sigs is the text, either the color is off (2,3,5) or to blended in (1,2,5). blending in the render is kind of shaky as well (1,2,4,5).But i would have to go for the halo one beiing the better of the group, except for the circle that goes around it and not working with the background as much.i would say you where off your game just a bit, but not much, keep it going you will your groove back.

well i thought Uzbekistan wasn't really stable in role of rules and laws for the people, but i guess i was wrong about that, but i bet the price isn't cheap either to get a lawyer to help out, so it small stuff or is the legal for people who want to fight the government?

thanks for the support guys even though i promise pics of my hospital stay i din't bring my camrea along due to the fact my sister barrow it for her florida trip ***awwww*** i know i know you all wanted to see what i was like all doped up but that won't happen this time.

NEED ALL ENTRIES BY MIDNIGHT YOUR LOCAL TIME so i can set up the voting tomarrow morning my time.

everything need work, i suggest start with brushing first then color then renders then blending in the render then border.its somewhat ok for a first but could be better with all the resources that you have.

give the background a little more depth and what snlil said about the render and your good.

background looks good add a drop shadow to the render and text and with the text go to layer properties and click on satin to blend the text with the background just a bit.devil go to the gfx resources forum and everything you need is their.

well 1 pixel border is more then enough, but the background lacks any depth to it, it needs more, along with hte render put a drop shadow for the render to give it some depth. the colors look nice, text is ok but add a drop shadow to that as well.

to put it harsly you didn't take the time to work with all the features of this sig, it looks to busy with the clash of the 2 renders, the lighting bolts don't help it any better, i say you used fireworks to make this one due to the pixelation of the render itself, the border is terrible at best.im going to give you a step by step process on how to make a good sig in order for you to master.1. master the art of one set of brushing and coloring of the background.2. learn to properly put a render into your sig, but transforming it to fit the size of the sig. tyen start working on to blend it with the background.3. finally work with borders.this should help you out just a bit and remember you have to take your itme when making a sig.

yeah fix the text, maybe do this trick that i do make a copy of the render go to filters then to blur then to glassian blur put the settings at 4.0 then set it to soft light it should igve it a little kick to it.

yeah i owuld have to agree i'm not feeling the background on this one, i think it might have looked better in a pixel stretch with the render then put in some grunge brushes to smooth it out. same with the text as well, the glow would have looked good but the bevel kind of turns it off a bit, but the blend job is excellent as well.its ok overall but need some work.

thats the funny thing about parents they don't like you but they love you enough to care when you screw up, but i would have to say my real life experiance would have to be when a new day thats waiting for me cuz you don't know whats going to happen, but right now i have to this surgery i had is my biggest change since now i have to take better care of myself now.

thats why 400x130 to 400x150 is a good size but also depending on how many layers you use as well more layer you use the bigger in kb it gets, my latest ones from 1-40 to 2-17 are 100kb to a little over 200kb, i should cut down the layers a bit., but of course renders have a good portion of that size, but also when i save i max out the quality look they give after i finish them.best thing to do is save them as jpg and not png thats why people hate pop-up so much cuz pngs take a lot of space.well lucky for me i guess that i am stud muffin of a good guy, OPAQUE you blaming db problems with me now j/k.well html is turned off in the sig block for that very reason that someone would build a whole website in it, but yeah i would have to agree people using large images to link to their site is of bad taste thats why you use thumbnails or that tab RSS image that i see.but to be nice i cleaned it up just a bit, but i htink the sig rotators could be in on the act due to the mas amount of info it collects to load an image.

well im not to pleased with the new controllers for the next generation systems, well hopefully the controller makers comes out with some old school ones to use, but of course im not to please about newest designs of systems either especially the ps3 hopefully they come with something better when it debuts next year (i htink).

well all i have to say the next president has a big mess to clean up and should start firing people once he/she gets in, but knowing how the system works a repbulican will be the next president and start doing cover up stuff just so bush doesn't get in trouble.