Custom signatures...

[SkinnedAussie]

Looks like my sig may have been prophetic. Confirmation coming Thursday.

[LeftCoast Skinz FAN]

That sig is dope SOUP. Your skills are progressing nicely. Great work!!! (please ad your own sarcastic undertones while reading)

[Soup]

^^^ I owe it all to you and your two week photoshop class you give....

[LeftCoast Skinz FAN]

^^^ I owe it all to you and your two week photoshop class you give....

Ha Ha Ha............... yeah my "photoshop class"

[MikeSellers45]

testing my new sig, ready for tomorrow's press conference

[frostyj]

I have made a few sigs, but none I'm really proud of. I have an idea and can mostly make it work, but they tend to lack depth. Never really messed with PS too deep other than photo editing. Nothing like this.
Need some critique please.
Did this in a bout 25min just rough thought.
What can I do to get it to pop and not be flat.

Thanks

[Soup]

^^^ It looks like you're just starting out frosty, I can't really critique it because you've just started.

My advise would be to learn everything you can about photoshop first, you're not working to its full potential. The thing is you have to practice a lot when you first start off. I've seen a lot of guys quit because they want their first sig to be the best thing sinse the 16th chapel. If you post your work we'll give you a good critique but you have to stick with it.

One thing I will say is STAY AWAY FROM THE FILTERS. That is such a nOOb move. Everyone that starts with making sigs always goes to the filters first. Its like a rite of passage. I did it and I was kicking myself a few months later. Get into brushes instead, start to make your backgrounds with brushes.

[SkinnedAussie]

I've seen a lot of guys quit because they want their first sig to be the best thing sinse the 16th chapel.

The 16th chapel? WTF! If nothing was better than the 16th chapel, I'd love to see what the 17th looks like!

I think you meant the Sistine chapel.

[Soup]

The 16th chapel? WTF! If nothing was better than the 16th chapel, I'd love to see what the 17th looks like!

I think you meant the Sistine chapel.

you're right, I've got to stop watching TV and working on computer at the same time. I get a lot of brain farts when i do that.

[die.hard.skins.fan]

you're right, I've got to stop watching TV and working on computer at the same time. I get a lot of brain farts when i do that.

Excuses escuses....hahaha

[Soup]

Excuses escuses....hahaha

Why don't I ever see you with a sig?? You started backwards with your stuff diehard. I didn't get into walls until after a few months of starting, you just jumped in.

[Capt. Kaos]

my 1st attempt at a sig.

Stayed away from filters and went with more brushes. What say you?!?


better?!?

[LeftCoast Skinz FAN]

^^^ The image of Rak is flat. Really flat. Did you use just one layer of the Rak render? You should use multiple layers, I usually use about 3 or 4, and add different effects to each of them and then blend them together. I know, that sounds complicated, but it really isn't. You just have to practice. Keep working on it and you will get really good.

[Soup]

Here are a few tuts for the beginners. These really helped when I first started

http://juggsy.deviantart.com/art/Bas...erms-112406730
http://gfxbb.deviantart.com/art/Basi...ments-91647487
http://cptpomeroy.deviantart.com/art...oshop-91405194

[frostyj]

Thanks Soup.