Signatures

I made these signatures maybe 2 weeks ago. The first one is one I made for myself. And the second is one I made for my friends Shaun, who goes H3 Ninja H3 . I'm just looking for some constructive critisism on what you think I can improve in. I am looking forward to learning more things in Photoshop. If you have a link to some good tutorials on ways to improve the signatures, that'd be great.




I have other signatures I've made posted in my FPSB memeber profile down at the bottom. In case your interested.

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A better or more engrossing font for the name. Something that's unique to the signature.

Also, you may want to work with taking elements from other sources more. It looks like you just used the magic wand and didn't bother to get the edges. It's evident on the blurring of the front of the face in the second one and in the hair and along the arm in the first one.

Other than that, there's no need to just have a specific hue/overtone, it's a bit plain in that aspect. The actual composite isn't bad, but there's some things that could make it stand out more.

Perhaps, also, practice with designs of your own creation past an arrow.

But all this is based on just those two images, I haven't bothered looking at anything else.

There's a great site called tatoomcity.org ... but it's in Korean. The only time I've ever understood anything on that site is when a friend translated a tutorial (which was incredibly helpful)

I suppose, something else to keep in mind, is that Photoshop goes well together with Painter when producing artwork (of any kind)

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Yeh the magic wand tool is crap unless you have the image you want on a single colour background to start with.

You should have used the pen tool or maybe the eraser tool but the pen tool definatly.

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Snarkpit disabled signature images ages ago because damned few had the courtesy to post them in respectable file sizes.

I only point this out because both of those tiny pics have enormous files. Imagine a page with about 15 of those things all downloading.

[EDIT] Show me how yours differs from mine...

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Well Orph, these are my higher sized ones. I had lower sized images, for 56k value. But when I asked my friend he said he wanted the larger one. So I deleted the lower one. And for me. I don't use it anywhere but my mapping teams personal forums, where everyone has broadband, so I wasn't worried. Sorry though.

I'll take all that into consideration.

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No you misunderstand my meaning. This is the art forum so size is mostly ignored.

I only pointed it out to illustrate that you can have the same basic quality at a much lower value.

As far as their sizes, since they cannot be used here, they are only curiosities.

You are welcome to make them however you please. I think I made my point about their looks.

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Those sigs are a little too tall for my taste. I like my signatures shorter and wider, but that's just me.

Have ya'll (the sites admins) ever thoght about simply letting us set up a sig in our bio page. -- just a thought

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You know, I've actually got nothing to say

Maybe its just me but Snarkpit is image heavy already. Besides, until Lep grants access to the database, nothing code related can be altered.

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I feel that you need to expand on your own style a little more.
The sigs look nice, but they also look like 90% of the sigs out there,
monocromatic, with a girl or ninja, scan lines, abstract background...
push it a little more!