Johnny

Don't use animation. On most sigs it just ruins it.And talk about photosensitive seizures...jeez...And otherwise those need lots of work. Do some more like your current sig.

Brushing, text, and renders are the most effectively used effects when working with signature design in my opinion. Renders work well with a character or person in your signature to base your sig on, and text adds to the class and quality of it, while naming it's author. Brushes are the overall design, and they add the background usually, if the backgrounds aren't filtered. Don't be a filter overuser! Fitlers often look bad when you use them, it's best to brush.

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I agree partially (especially on using filters. I rarely EVER use filters) but I just wanted to note a few things. You really don't need renders, brushing, or text. I can make an awesome sig without any (or a combination, even) of those. Not saying that I don't like using those though. Renders, text, and brushing are an important part of my sigs, even if I don't NEED them.

 

But yeah, filters bite. Don't use filters. Ever.

 

I personally think the most important part of a sig is color. Even if it's black and white with a certain element colored (like below), color is still very important.

 

Keep lyrics in quotes, as you aren't the original owner. Thanks.

is it hard or not if i'm a basic or first learning of photoshop cs? whether should i learning the painting first?

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Um...what?

Hm....looks pretty good. I see a few minor flaws here and there, but nothing big. Looks like we have another good designer here now.But, why do they say Collision/Sin?

I really like the 1st and 7th ones! pretty cool man.

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I really like them all... but my favourite ones are numbers 2 and 6. I really love the colours used in them. So vibrant! The effects are also very cool.

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Thanks to both of you.

Sweet, Yea I Dont Like The Text, Could You Help Me Out With My Sigs To Get That Saturation Trick And That Border I Realy Love The Sig.

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Um, thanks, and those things are relatively simple...you can pm or im me about it I s'pose, but I'm not always around, or I'm around but unavailable.

 

Looks great Johnny

The pixel text looks a bit funny to me though, is it the right size for the font?

Perhaps since the font has a grunge feel, you could have tried some more grunge brushing, or instead picked a font which matches a little better with the current background. I can't say it looks particuarly out of place though, and I have to really nitpick to find anything in this one

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Haha, thanks a lot CF.

 

1 -- It probably isn't the right size, because I'm an idiot.

2 -- I tried grunge brushes, but I suck at grunge, so I decided to try out some new abstracts I picked up.

3 -- Yeah, font selection seems to be a problem of mine...I just don't have the eye for it I guess.

 

But yeah, thanks for the comments and praise, I appreciate it.

well knowing those guys some bought the software oh wait who am i kidding

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Um....what the heck are you talking about?

very cool indeed ... well you guys are just professional

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Heh, believe me, I'm no pro. The stuff the guys (and girls) do at Gamerenders puts me to shame, really. I still gotta lot to learn.

 

amazing works you did ,looks nice and light ,very professional.

 

so many good sigs must be found in your site...right.

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Yup, thanks. ^-^

 

perfect now.. the font could be changed to another type...i think

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Heh, it could.

Wow it looks really amazing Only the text is a tiny bit ahrd to read

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It's supposed to be that way, but thanks.

 

Looks cool johnny, maybe you can try to get some more 'noise' on your J (in your name)

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Heh, that's the way the font is, and I'm too lazy to fix it. Thanks.

Okay, I know I've been dropping sigs left and right, so this'll be my last one for a while (most likely until tomorrow, lol). I tried the selective saturation trick again, and I think it came out really well on this one.

 

 

Please please please rate/comment/crticize. I can't get better if you don't help me.

veryvery cool. i agree with popular opinion regarding the first one.

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Thanks.

 

I like the first one best and the blue one isint bad either job work

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Oh, so all the other ones are bad? Gee thanks!

 

J/k. Thanks.

 

Johnny let me ask you something offtopic. I see all your work in photoshop here and it amazes me. I want to ask you if you would make a banner for my site. I would like to pay your something for that work, but the only way I can pay you is by moneybookers.com . I you would do that work, please we can discuss it in private message.

 

Thanks

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Well, I dunno how well I could do, but I could certainly try. PM me I s'pose.

Wow!!!

I like all of them...

 

I think it's too striking...

It will be better if these background fades to the back to allow users to add text on them that comes to the main focus...

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Thanks, but I don't quite get that last part?

 

Great work Johnny. I find that first one to be best of all.

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Thanks. That's my fave too. ^-^

Okay, here's my newest creation. I'm kinda proud of it, so don't burn me too bad. I couldn't decide which color looked best, so I kinda did them all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Which color do you think looks best?

 

Other comments/criticism/ratings also highly appreciated.

I have CS, and I downloaded CS2, but my compy's a little lacking, so it ran kinda slow, and there's not that many new features anyway (the vanishing point isn't all that great, believe me. Smart layers are nifty though.), so I just decided to stick with CS, even if I could have kept CS2 for free. It's all a matter of preference on this one, really. I'd suggest to someone with a good computer and doesn't have Photoshop to get it, because it kinda is the best one yet, but someone who doesn't have a great computer, or already has Photoshop shouldn't bother, really.

The flames in 3 look great. I also like No. 9, nice choice of colours. Good set of sigs, you're certainly better at this then I am!

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Thanks. I think I could have done better on both of those though. ^-^

 

Those pictures are awsome.  Are they rendered with Photoshop?

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Yes, those were all done in Photoshop, aside from the renders.

Looks pretty good...I'd say take off the....is that a bevel? Well, whatever...take off whatever's making it dark at the top and bottom. Other than that, I really can't see anything wrong with it. GJ.

i personally love 7 and 9..try to use a diff pattern on 7 tho =/

and 9 has just a great sig bg

 

its a nice set anyways!

and 12 is just funny!

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O.o Thanks.

Continued...

11. -- Testing a more "flat" background and a glowy feel.

 

12. -- Just a different style.

Ok, here's some new ones for you guys. Please rate/comment them all, if you can.

 

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2. -- Testing the "partially colored render" style.

 

3. -- Flame test.

 

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9.

 

10. -- Beam test.

 

EDIT: More in next post.

Makes you wanna go kidnap Angelina Jolie and use her for experimenting. LOL.Make sure you quote things you copy from the web no matter what. It counts as spam and you'll simply loose credits.

Some really good ones there Johnny - nice improvement over your old Spiderman/Naruto sigs.

 

I like 1,5 and 7...

1 - Has some good brushing in the background - nice how you blended his feet in with the image so it looks like he's "in it". It's cut out well and good matte settings for transperancies.

 

5 - Looks good, though I don't really like the thin yellow border - I think black would define it more... Text is nicely placed

 

7 - Render fits well with background and the border is unique - maybe just a little brown, but I think that's the effect

 

I didn't go for 3, 6 or 8 so much:

3 - It looks dreamy, and to me the render doesn't fit that feel...

 

6 - Text is hard to make out and I just don't think the render works there - the stars don't look that good, probably the brush size was changed from default or something

 

8 - Once again text is kind of hard to make out, it's a little "too" spotty on the left, and maybe a little monotone for my tastes.

 

Overall though, great work.

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Thanks Cool Freaker, you're probably the one I most look forward to in comments, because you obviously know exactly what you're talking about. I agree with you on everything. You've pointed out quite a few flaws (some of which I knew about, but it's cool) and I think I might go back and fix them....eventually.

 

Once again, thanks CF.

 

I like the sigs, I really like the spawn one because it uses png right?

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Thanks, and yes, the Spawn one uses .png

 

There ok but alot of them are way! to light but a few are actually

pretty good I wouldn't use any of em since Im a very experianced graphics artist myself with photoshop

 

heres my rating

 

Render 10 you did an exelent job with renders

blending 4 not so good here

backround 6 meh pretty good

abstract 1 your abstract was not good at all

over all 7/10

try and improve your skills a bit

try learning some blending techniques

keep the good work up

-Mechvegita-

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Ok, not to disrespect or anything, because for all I know you could be the BEST photoshop user EVER, but judging by the image in your sig and what you're saying, I don't quite think you're that experienced. I don't mean to offend, but could you show some examples of your work?

 

Anyway, thanks again all. I appreciate it. I'll have a few more soon.

This is because in certain areas of Xisto's forums, most posts aren't really contributive, like for example the Jokes forum is usually copy-pasted jokes from around the web, so no posts are counted there. I don't decide the way the forums are set up, but I can tell you that's the main reason. If you want specific answers, I'd suggest asking an admin.So, sorry I couldn't help more, but I hope that generally answers your question.

yeah 15 "good" posts just to get in that maybe i will do but i did some nice ones in the normal section

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Yeah, the normal section's always open, and it's not really that hard to get into premium...just rate 15 sigs in the Your Stuff section. You can even rate mine.

Thanks everyone for all comments on my sig. Now I made little different one. Here it is.

 

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/404.png

 

What do you think about it? What should I improve? Waiting for your sugestions.

 

Thanks

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That one is pretty okay. I'd suggest moving the text somewhere it doesn't interfere with the lightning, but right side up. Also, the emboss can go, as it detracts from the actual sig. Other than that, I got no problems with it. Maybe try some more mainstream sizes though. Mine are usually 400x100 or 400x400 for popouts.