Image Umbrella: Signatures, Avatars, Logos & Text

[Musical Maniac]

Atradese, he meant that the everyone seems to use the water plug-in.

Musical Maniac, water - especially frozen - is rarely that blue. It's usually white, green and gray, depending on how shallow the ice and how dirty the water. Try some desaturating and hue shifting, that should get you closer to what you want.

i understand what you mean, but i prefer the unrealistic, i mean, everyone seems to go for realistic, or cartoon style, but altered reality is sort of in-between the two, it's just my style

and to widget, that signature is great, i love the fire effect, and the text is really cool

[ChronosRegex]

this isnt my first signature i made, ive made hundreds of others (for other people, so if you want one, just ask ). i liked the effect on this one so much, i even made a tutorial on how to do it

[Xanthous]

@ Widget yeah I definately like the text effect on it...though maybe you could do something else with the fire?

@Chronos The only thing I don't like is it is a bit hard to read...I thought it was CIIRONOS at first glance..

here is my go at a signature with more of a 4:1 ratio (still is more like 4.5:1 but eh.)

Bronco is my name on another forum

I tried making it so the Cortana head in the background was noticeable on who it was...but not too distracting...not sure if I acheived that though .

[yy10]

nice sig, xanthous. but the font colour doesn't fit. try using light green then do some text effects.

i made a new avy, feedback appreciated

[Flow55]

It's good for a beginner but the render is stretched and the text is too big.

Somebody gimme something.

[yy10]

well guess what? im not a beginner.i have used pdn for 2+ years now. that was one of my old work

anyway, ur sigs are brilliant! add some text though

[Blooper]

Why add text? More often than not people don't do it right anyways.

My only suggestions for f55 would be to make the smudging just a tad smoother on the edges for the first tag.

yy10, if you used brushes to make that background, stay away from them. Also add effects (smudging, C4Ds on brightening blend modes) on top of your render, so that it doesn't look like you just slapped it on and decreased the transparency in some spots.

[InteractiveBuddy]

This is my first sig and im pretty much a noob. so tell me what you think...if you could can u rate it on a scale of 1/10 and if you are skilled in image making can you tell me what i can do to improve it?

[InteractiveBuddy]

btw person above me () i like your sig. its nice and colorful

[Blooper]

Thanks

Try not using outlines or drop shadows on grungy fonts like that, because it's worn out. If it was outlined, the outline would have worn down with the text, and it wouldn't be around the stains.

[InteractiveBuddy]

Hehe do i really have to rate your sig again? anyways i dont know what you mean by that last post

[Blooper]

No, you don't. Usually if someone doesn't point out that they want comments on their sig, then they don't.

And just don't outline/add drop shadows to fonts that are dirty like the one you used in your signature. Long story short, it doesn't look good.

[InteractiveBuddy]

well then yours is ugly! haha jk.

screw u guys, im goin home ~Cartman

[pipp92]

what do you think?

[Blooper]

Grab the water on the top-right corner, rotate it 180°, and put the just under his left pectoral. Left, as in the Batman's left. Your right. It really looks nice, you could also try decreased the splashes' opacity just a tad. Good job.

[Edit] Also, apply image, duplicate twice, autolevel the top layer, set to difference, merge with the layer under it, And make the contrast -100. Set this to overlay. That'll change the hue, but it'll have no effect on the luminosity (50% luminosity on overlay has no effect)

[InteractiveBuddy]

how about my new signature? its Georges St Pierre from the UFC

Edit: btw pipp, your signature is awesome! did u make the water or did u get it online?

[Frontcannon]

Appropiate background, but the fighter is badly cut, not nice..

[InteractiveBuddy]

yeah i know hes badly cut...i tried to fix that but the magic wand just wouldnt select the extra white parts and i couldnt find a good render. as soon as i find one ill switch the fighter out

[Blooper]

That's because you should never use the magic wand for cutting out renders (except for some sprites).

http://cmdsketchpad.com/tutorial.php?tutid=2

http://cmdsketchpad.com/tutorial.php?tutid=3

[InteractiveBuddy]

i tried that but im not good at the outlining part so it got soo messed up

[Blooper]

Practice makes perfect. Plastic surgery also, but that's beside the point.

You added way too many effects on the new render, it looks blurry and of very low quality.

[InteractiveBuddy]

well i like the look of it. and do you ever criticize anything but the part you dont like? thats what you did with my other signature too. why not criticize the background? somebody in the "Rate The Sig Of The Poster Above You" topic rated the background.

[Blooper]

Because I don't like it? Hate to be harsh, but you don't really do anything with the criticism anyway as far as I can tell... instead of complaining about it, be happy that you do get helpful CC.

[InteractiveBuddy]

I joined 2 days ago. do you really think i can show anybody except people that dont know anything about pdn how to improve things? and ive looked at a bunch of your replies. youve only commented on the signature about 1 thing. only the main part of it. why dont u just try to criticize the whole signature? like the background part of it too.

[Frontcannon]

Most people use 'criticize' in order to emphasize bad or below normal things, though you could criticize the good things, too :o

That's just the way they do

That the background of your sig wasn't mentioned before just means that it is accurate, nothing too bad but not perfect either

Well, you could say that you should either sharpen the border between the yellow shine or blurring it, would be better than the way it looks now, though your background texture is nice