I happened to of seen a graphics section here, so I guess I'll post my stuff here too. Here's a fully list of every sig I've made:

Current Stuffums ((Sigs)):

Beauty of the Flames
Cute, Adorable and Just Outright Huggable
Cute, Short and A Little on the Dangerous Side
A Hungry Loveable Threesome
Adorable Little Threesome
And They Lived Happily Ever After
A World of Black and White
Allen Walker
Mischievous Kiss

New Stuff ((sigs)):

Kaworu Nagisa
Inseperable
Two Little Kitties
Maya Ibuki
Eva Unit- 001
Summer
Little Boxed Kitten
Banzai
Lonely View
Little Secret
Neku
Memories of Lost Days
Of Dreams and Wishes
Beat
Shiki

Somewhat New ((Sigs)):

Flower's Kiss
Untitled 4
No Promises, Just True Lies
Tru Love Story
Embrace
Two of a Kind
Wish Upon a Star
Sharing is Most Fun!
By Your Side Always
Summer Days
Beck

Last Century ((Sigs)):


Untitled 3
Dizzy
Elegance
Ash Crimson
Venom
K' 3
Eureka Seven
Shadow of My Former Self
Where's Itsygo?
Seigfried
Caulder
Young Love
Kanaria
K' 2
Trent Reznor
Spiderman
Jay Chou
Music
Wonderwice Margera
K'
Ichigo Kurosaki

Middle Ages ((Sigs)):

Mai
HaruMik
Gunplay Sepia
Angelina
Untitled 2
Lelouch
Sakura
Cain
Reno
KOS-MOS
Grimmjow
Skeleton Boku
Anemone
Lady in Black
Magna Carta
Shana
Kilik
Rider

Prehistoric Ages ((Sigs I know cringe at. Feel free to skip this section)):

Boku?
Utena
Son Goku ((Saiyuki))
Itachi
Rena-Chan
Into the Abyss 2
Eureka
Lock and Load
Bishock
Don't F**k with me
Manjoume
Into the Abyss
Untitled
Two of a Kind
Show Me The Light


I give my thanks to Blindo, Kurinshin, xFlcl, IBF, Sakon, and Speedy for their support. x3

This post has been edited by Dragonfire Inferno on 2009-10-24, 04:25 PM

The first one and the last one look the best. As you're just starting out, you're sure to encounter problems... but that's what we're all here for!

One of you biggest problems is that some of your renders (pictures) are stretched and squashed to fit the piece. That's a bad idea. If you're using photoshop, all you have to to is press control+T, then, while holding shift, resize the render. I recommend reading some basic beginner tutorials. There are some decent ones here on KAF.

Keep working at it. You've got potential!

These are pretty good. I have to say the foul language one is my favorite. >->

One tip I received awhile back was, not to use big sizes. Big sizes don't mean better signatures, since I noticed that all the signatures except the BioShock one, and vertical, have been pretty big. But keep working on it.

Oh! Another tip, save the signatures as .png if you can. I can see from just looking at these that they are in .jpg format.

But keep up the good work, these were good.

^ indeed, try and cut down the size. My personal favorite size is 400x135.

I also think that you should learn about the magical world of saturation!
The best example I can give of over-saturation is your third piece. Saturation, if you don't know, is the easiest thing to over use. It comes mostly from using to many layers with the settings of;
1. Overlay
2. Soft light
3. Hard light
4. Vivid light
5. Linear light
6. Pin light
7. Hard mix
8. Color burn
9. Linear burn
10. Color dodge
11. Linear dodge

As you can tell it is quite easy to oversaturate, however saturation is also the key to blending a render with the background. My prime example is probably the most widely used photoshop technique, which is to use a gaussian blur on a duplicate of your render, and then put it on one of the above layer settings. This can greatly help blending, or if overused, can ruin the piece.

Thank you guys for all of your advice! It will come in handy for me later on in my sig making experience. Here's the newest sig that I made earlier today:


^Consructive crit and comments are welcome please.

The text effect you used on this one sucks greatly...
There are many other things you could do to make it better :]

Go and see basic text tutorials or wait for some1 more creative who will tell which effect you could use to improve it :]

You could try also smooth out the character render so the stroke would look much smoother
The rest is well done :] I see you improved a lot :]

^ Well I don't really agree with you Gohan, you are right about one thing. Tutorials.

My advice, is to go the tutorials section, find the tutorials for Uki's "basic smudging" tutorial. Then implement the whole tutorial if you can, However the part I want you to see is the part where he makes a black layer over the entire piece. He then proceeds to select an area of the piece, and erases it over his stock. Then he puts it on overlay (Or maybe soft light. I cant remember.) Either way, this will allow you to erase unneeded background junk while still focusing on the piece. Check out the tut, its very good.

Well at least you're improving. I don't think you grasp the concept of C4D yet so stay away from that until you're a bit more experienced. The text is icky since the outer glow doesn't blend nor does it fit. I don't recommend using blending options on text since it makes the text stick out when, really, it should blend. Which brings me to my next point, the stock doesn't blend at all. You should really practice smudging techniques. I assure you that it will help your blending.

I hope that helps you out. Keep trying~!

^ He is only saying that cause he is in love with smudging. I mean he married smudging and everything. They even wrote there own vows. It was a nice ceremony. xD

xD

Cut it out. Seriously, smudging does help with blending!

Oh I know, but you , oh smudging guru, are borderline obsessed. xP

First Smudge sig created:

^It looked like I did nothing, but at first the background was supposed to an Abstract background, but it turned into a smudge fest. I kinda like the way it came out though.

Original picture used: Clickie Here

Constuctive Crit Appreciated please!

Well it is a bit oversaturated, but looking at the original stock, it was pretty saturated before you did anything. I think you should also try and reduce the smudging a little, so that you have a good background for you piece. Bug Anorudo into talking to you about it.

However i still see good improvment in many fields.

http://www.keiichianimeforever.com/boards/...ad,49028.0.html

That might help, it might not. It's just a smudging tutorial that might help you.

I already recommended that earlier kurin. >_>

xD

... Well check it out if you haven't already.

Quoted^(ref) Kurinshin (on 11 September, 2007, 04:15 AM PDT) —

http://www.keiichianimeforever.com/boards/...ad,49028.0.html

That might help, it might not. It's just a smudging tutorial that might help you.

I'll definitely check that out for when I do my next smuge sig.

Here's a batch of sigs I created in the last few days durring school:


^I love this version so much better than the first, plus I can put this one on KAF without going over the sig limit size. X3


^1/3 of Speed's Rena-chan sigs that I owe him. I think I overdid it with the blending and the adjusting the highlights of the background. DX


^This one is for one of my best friends who's birthday is coming up soon, so I made her and Itachi sig, because she's a well.... Itachi maniac. I had problems doing this one for some reason, and I don't really like the way it came out either....


^I had found this really nice hi-def pic of Son goku from Saiyuki, and I just couldn't resist. Again with the brightness, and abstract brushes. I feel pretty good about how this came out though.. I guess.

Constructive crit appreciated please!

All of your images looked smashed...Use auto resize? A bit oversaturated as well. '-'

Go fifty-percent, twenty-five percent, and if big enough 12.5 percent.

Don't resize images yourself. It gets messy and disproportional.

Quoted^(ref) Hyourinmaru (on 16 September, 2007, 09:28 AM PDT) —

Go fifty-percent, twenty-five percent, and if big enough 12.5 percent.

Don't resize images yourself.  It gets messy and disproportional.

Hm... I see. Thanks, because I've been trying to get around the resizing problem for the longest... >.<

Here's something I made from a tutorial earlier durring the day called "Urban Decay" becuase it looked interesting to do and here was the result I had gotten from it:



Constructive crit and comments are appreciated please!