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I was but it has been some two or three weeks since he said that so i decided to start another :/

Sorry for delay was vacationing Any questions? good luck.

ALL HAIL LELOUCH VI BRITANNIA!!!I just watched the first season last week, now I am about to begin the second.11/10.I love Code Geass so much that it influenced your rating .I just love the simplicity, and it really signifies... lelouch I think and just carries a lot of mood and power with it.Good job.(Make one with suzaku)

7/10.It looks nice, but again, it lacks depth like your more recent two signatures.The text could use some work, and the colourful colours is a bit.... odd looking.Good job though.

4/10.The +4 is from the amount of effort, layers, C4D's, renders g maps, and brushes used in the signature, otherwise the signature does not look very good to me, sorry.There is no depth, it is very flat and faded. I think it would look a lot better if you took off some of the gradient maps, or lowered the opacity.

I'll try to make a good critique since I am grumpy after a 14 hour car ride >.< (just got out of the car like 10 minutes ago) and finidng that my air conditioning is broken and it is 90 Degrees F in my house....I think you could have combined what you did in the avatar with the signature, and added that bar at the bottom, im not sure if it is just a line, or a clipping mask, but either way I think it could look cool and add more depth to the signature. Also ( I know you said you can't edit the sig cuz you didnt save it) but also making the text have more depth and less.... blendy... I'm not going to rate this one.Good job for a first of that style

Just to let you guys know I am out for about a week, I am currently in florida in a closed resort which has internet but you have to pay for it so my time on this forum will probably be little to none. I will try to get on as often as I can, but I can make no promises.It would be great if a moderator that actively takes part in graphics can help for a week with the SOTW and Tennis, as well as the rest of the forums. Thanks!

I do also, great initiative but I guess I probably should have stared a new one but I felt like i wanted to get mroe action on the last and get more attention before I started a new one, and soon OpaQue is mass emailing (once he has all the mycents fixed up) the whole forum to invite people back so I also wanted to wait until that so I can open a new SOTW and Tennis match to try to get the most contenders.

Thanks I guess for starting this up but I'd rather if you didn't next time so I can keep it organized. I don't want people to just start making multiple ones of these at a time, that is why i preferred that only the graphics staff were to start up the topics for this you know? and I was hoping that once this got going fast that I would be doing it weekly so it also makes it more difficult to control that. Thanks Here is a link to the rules topic I made a while ago. http://forums.xisto.com/topic/68383-photoshop-tennis-rules-and-information/ And on another note I may have to restart this one because of the size differential at the beginning. The image went from a decent size to being cut down by more than half its size. In the rules I mention that you shouldn't do that, and yeah.. it kinda makes things harder in the long run.

While cleaning it, as what was said above, I really hope new thermal compound was put on because it could be devastating to unseat and re-seat a heatsink without replacing thermal paste because it creates bubbles, gets hard and even rubs off and does not do its job properly. You might want to also make sure that all your fans are/are capable of spinning at full RPMs, and the exhaust and intake fans are blowing in the correct directions. 105c is waaaayy too hot for a cpu.

.Nol Isn't exactly "Active" here anymore, but I used to skin for invisionfree and like forum softwares, so I, and the rest of the community may be able to give you a hand with your problems.

You don't have to try it, it is just what I thought would look cool I like the render a lot, where do you get your renders? Deviantart?

It looks really good deadmad7. I would give it around a 9/10. What I think may look good Is actually... having it just cut off. it would require some editing, but just cut it off kinda like what i did in my evil snowman picture: But on the opposite side you know? I dont know.. it would be interesting. Overall you did a great job with all the blending, I would be interested in seeing the original image you used.

It could do but you never actually know without attempting it!! Maybe a dark signature will look better with the render of choice, sometimes renders aren't meant to be turned into a figure that is no-longer dark.

Meh, I guess they were pretty good, Did you actually figure out all the trajectory of the throwing knife with the distance and stuff or do you kinda guess every time.I would knife a lot more if I didn't have to go pick up my knife every time; haha.Good job though

We changed names, cant forget that!

Did you try two black bars 0.0 Try it and see how it looks haha

I give it a 7/10.To me it feels incomplete. I feel like the border you added to it takes away from some of the depth, and makes it look bad. Just a thin black border could have done, or double black bars at the top and bottom could have complimented the signature. Work on the border and depth a bit and get ready for the next SOTW!

I have made a video tutorial on a Tilt-Shift photography effect. This effect is often done with really expensive camera lenses called Tilt-Shift lenses, but can be achieved just as well with a regular photograph. The link to the video is: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ And here is the video: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Key things to remember is that it does take some time to get it perfect. You really have to pay attention to depth perseption, and things like that to get the perfect effect. You can always mess with the blurring to get a more centralizer effect, or widening will make a weaker effect. Adjusting the images makes the image look much more unreal, and like a miniature, without adjusting the curves and hue and saturation, it does not bring such a great effect. If you have any questions leave me a message I'll try to get back to you! Check out the rest of my videos.

I liked Saint-Michaels the most, it had the most effect on me, and even though he threw it together quickly, he did a really good job.Keep up the voting. i will start the new SOTW within a few days..Best of luck to all!!

Vote for your favourite.Good luck, comment and critique.

Thanks Web_designer for the name "super text writer" I mean I'm fine with that, but what I'm venting about is i do other things also 0.0. I know Web_designer understands that, I think some people do but just to let you guys know this is what i do, while sending 10,000 texts a month. I have school, I just finished my 10th grade year at a Private high school in Virginia (finished June 9th). I text after school, and I don't sleep much, On average I go to sleep on school nights from 1:00 - 3:00, and wake up at 6:15. After every single day of school for the whole school year I have had an activity, and sometimes more than one activity. During the fall every day after school (school ending at 2:45) I played soccer until 5:30 or 6:00. I was the captain of my school soccer team, I started, and played the whole game unless injured. During the winter I had Indoor soccer practice, and backstage work. Every weekend I worked backstage sessions for the play from around 10:00am-5:00pm, and during the week before and during the play I worked there forever. On the weekends i worked from 10:00am to Midnight, and during the school days I worked from after school to 10:30-11:00 while doing a sport, rowing for the Crew team, and playing pickup soccer games. Inter weaved with that schedule are my hobbies, such as computers, graphics, photography, working on cars, and hanging with friends. That is basically my schedule for the school year, and I still manage to text all that time. and now my schedule for the summer is.. Backstage almost every day of the week, and soccer once a week. Here are just some pictures of what I love to do. Here are some pictures of cars I have worked on recently: A 1988 Ford Festiva currently being transformed into a convertable and a race car. Ford escort, had a race, blew all gaskets for stupid reasons, second race is coming up on the 18th. Interior work on the Ford Escort. Car of team Scuderia Fluffball. Engine bay of the fiat. Me playing soccer: me at the river: Im on the left. I love the river i live right on it. My team and I rowing, I am in seat 4 (the rower on the left, not the coxswain) My computer setup: The last play/set I worked on (Once Upon A Mattress): I worked on the set, this is the day before opening show (dress Rehearsal) and the set isn't even finished yet. So I don't only text >.< I have friends, and I do things. Thx

Why don't you enter Web_Designer I believe SM should be entering, I was just talking to him on MSN..

Good entry! lets try to get three more at least!