Photoshop Meddlings V2

March 30, 2008, 5:28 PM

I thought my other thread was too long, and packed with lots of older stuff I don't like looking at, so, a new thread was needed =]

I'll post all my best stuff, from earliest to newest =]

March 30, 2008, 5:31 PM

They are so good marky

One day I will learn how to do this stuff....or maybe not

I love the Doublecast, Aerith and the Balthier one. They are made of win

I love the colours you use

March 30, 2008, 5:37 PM

I love this one:

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http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j1...hfilmstrip.jpg

It is amazing to see how much you have improved. Sadly, I still fail to learn....eternally stuck to in the "novice" level....

Someday, somehow, I'll make a good one

March 30, 2008, 5:43 PM

That filmstrip one was done really well. The black splatter was a nice touch too. Your last two signatures are awesome! Keep it up, Mark!

March 31, 2008, 5:55 PM

I made 2 different versions of this one sig, the first one was the original result, and the second one was what I went and changed.

V1

V2

And this one, well this was just me messing about with using a real person stock, and a different type of sig size, I don't like it too much though.

March 31, 2008, 8:18 PM

Love the Axel icon.

Your stock placement is overall great; the only thing I would suggest in regards to that is that you must expose a lot the shoulders in order to prevent the "floating head syndrome".

Also, in regards to text, you should never shove it into the corners unless it's very subtle. The main text should always go near the stock, and if you can't seem to make the text look good, then just get rid of it. Simple fonts like Orator or Arial are often the best to go with, and don't use the emboss/etc. for decoratory purposes, because they often look gaudy. Your Gohan sig has decent text.

You also want to go for one source of lighting, where the colors in the tag appear to have light on them, and then die down a bit. You are adding a lot of effects. Instead, you should use gradients, selective coloring and not-so-busy effects/spots of C4Ds. To make it understandable, the Celes sigs are very good with this, but the Tifa sig is not.

April 2, 2008, 5:16 PM

Thanks for the advie Lady Rufus! I've made two sig sets recently, and I've really tried to incorporate lighting =] and more gradients and stuff. Anyhoo this is what I've got so far =]

Judge Ghis stuff

Vegeta Stuff

I'm using a TV screen as a PC screen right now too, so the signatures look way different to me when I'm using my dads PC, instead of this, so that could be why some of them are really sucky xD

And here's a Goku sig I made too, I was trying to make the Kamehameha ball brighter than the rest of him, but that didn't work too well, plus the render was full of those gay lines -_____-

Goku Stuff

Tried a diffuse glow thing too, but it didn't work out so well...

April 2, 2008, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Aerith

Thanks for the advie Lady Rufus! I've made two sig sets recently, and I've really tried to incorporate lighting =] and more gradients and stuff. Anyhoo this is what I've got so far =]

Judge Ghis stuff

I may be a noob, but I sure know that this sig is too bright. I can barely tell any difference between Judge Ghis and the background, and it misses some more color. It is too purple. Well that's what Shahab, one of my mentors, used to tell me constantly.

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Vegeta Stuff

You refreshed my devotion to DBZ again. Nice signature. I liked the colors.

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I'm using a TV screen as a PC screen right now too, so the signatures look way different to me when I'm using my dads PC, instead of this, so that could be why some of them are really sucky xD

Oh, ok..

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And here's a Goku sig I made too, I was trying to make the Kamehameha ball brighter than the rest of him, but that didn't work too well, plus the render was full of those gay lines -_____-

Goku Stuff

Tried a diffuse glow thing too, but it didn't work out so well...

I liked it, but the text "Kamehameha" somehow does not fits the signature. Other than that, I think it looks quite good.