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everyone knows that second render is from the hitman series and not final fantasy.

Well one thing I did notice was that you used the drop shadow up top while everything else doesn't use it, best situation is to drop the whole drop shadow.Or if you use a somewhat dark grey then you could possibly work with the drop shadow more.Also try to see what kind of gradient effects you can use to spruce it up a bit.

actually there is one way to do it. Turn your document into a image and then very lightly so as not to disturb the text put a water mark behind it (don't make it white ) and also but the website name in the middle of the first line of text and then do same thing on the last line.This would make it next to impossible to erase it without messing up the text. Make sure to have the font set at 12 it's small enough and yet still readableYou could do the same thing with adobe as wel But I believe there is some programs that can strip a pdf down.

I choose not have a sig since they are childish and waste of space on forums and also a waste valuable loading time. Especially people who make these wallpaper sized ones, its kind of annoying to see 2 lines of text and a giant image. To me thats just plain out spam and kind of takes away from site.Also compared to the likes of deviantart and the people who make actual professional gfx its not even noob at best.

could you provide some links to these puzzle pirate games that would be nice.

like I mentioned on your tutorial this effect only works well with the bling bling text effect nothing else.

Make that white space any bigger and you will hve a white background, what where you trying do mix vector and c4d render together?Barely see any c4d render detail to it, text is horrible too.I suggest you read up on tutorials that deal with detail, cause your skills lack that and from what I have seen on your tutorials it shows it as well.

I have to disagree with everyone I think its rather dull and boring, all you did was simple gradient effect with simple layer properties. You expected to use this as web hosting template please only a noob would use this template. The light colors doesn't even help it either.What is that, you made the header and the footer the same, that unoriginal right there as well. Let me guess you where going to use text links for your nav?Templates are supposed to stand out and make people want to come, not looking plain and turn people away. I would trash this template and think of something else.

your like that saint-michael guy no orignality when designing sigs. Its just looks like oyu took the brush itself and just brushed it looking for good results. Smuding requires proper blending and detail which this doesn't and it just looks like hte render was thrown on there for good looks. I suggest you read on better smuding techniques its will make you better.

another lack of orginality tutorial in my opinion, I see this smudge/sharpen effect done so many times, no matter how you word or color it. It is still the same.and its not even blending properly either you can tell but the way its looks, just look at the smudging where he attempted to erase the left half of the render. Try working on proper smuding techniques.

anyone following this tutorial is basically going backwards in skill, its to sharpen, and contrasted, no depth, text is crappy, doesn't follow any real professional gfx skill guidelines. Almost looks like this guy just through it together and just did a couple of filter tricks to make it look good. I suggest you read on tutorials to get better or your not going to be any better then most people I have seen on other gfx sites.

I would say this effect will look only good on real metal objects I don't think you can gloss a cartoon image like that.

I agree with dark_drgn, Since the background is at a paculiar angle I would try to match the rain with the angle of the background and then off set it just a bit.

interesting concept, but yeah the original gradient uses a bunch of ctrl+ (whatever goes here) that have to be follow precisly, basically you have to make sure you don't do anything more with the background or text before doing this or you have to do alot of back-stepping to get it done right.

yes it is a basic tutorial, but the next step in this animation is to make the rain look like its hitting the text or the render itself in the forms of drops or splash its pretty good effect, but it takes a little practice to get them right though.