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 Post subject: My first Sig creation
PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:23 pm 
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I've been experimenting with my new Photoshop I got weeks ago, before I've done random backgrounds, but then I wanted a new Sig so I went all creative and attempted to make my first Sig. So enjoy and whatever...

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(EDIT: And yes the background thing, is one of the random backgrounds I've made. =P)


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:28 pm 
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Vincent fan?


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:44 pm 
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Indeed. :D


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:54 pm 
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Awsome! You got that crazy triple barrel shotgun 'o' doom! :mrgreen:


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:26 pm 
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Actually... that's pretty good Sirv! :D I like it. :P


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:08 pm 
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I'm gonna be blunt and brutal (Don't take this personally)

- WAY too cluttered, too many Vincent stocks
- Text sucks [censored]
- Typo needs work
- Red swirl = no, just no
- Good colour choice, bad implementation
- Grayscale stock = ew, gonna have grayscale stocks, make the whole sig grayscale
- No blending
- No flow
- No Depth
- Cut out job sucks [censored]

Now how to make it better.
- Try and make it flow like this. See how it looks like everything is coming away from him. That's because it's flowing away if you catch my drift.
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- Need more depth. Hard to do, hell I have trouble doing it, but it can be done. All you need to do is make it look like the stock is in the foreground, have a somewhat middle ground and a background. This is easier to do with a photomanip such as this:
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- Blending. Basically make the stock blend into the bg. This is easier done with an abstract background. As you can see, the stock for this sig and the colours of the background blend into each other almost perfectly. That is blending.
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- Never use more than one stock. Makes it seem cluttered. If you have been looking at the examples so far, you can see that they contain only one stock and have backgrounds to accompanie them. Only time you use more than one is when you are doing a photomanip.

- Photomanip. Basically take 2 stocks/photos and manipulate them together so it seems as if they are one. If you look at this tag, you'll see that C4, the one who made this, used a BoA stock and a city stock and made them go together well. BoA was put in the foreground while the city was in the background.
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- This sig here has both depth, flow and blending. If you look closely, you'll see that the sprite's colours go well with the tag colour. In terms of depth, the sprite is actually in the middle ground. The smudging is the foreground, sprite is the middleground and the light source behind him is the background.
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- Have a lightsource. If you've ever drawn something, you'll know that to make it look nice, you shade it. And to shade it, you need a light source. Basically you do the same thing, but no shading is required. Not expected of you to do it now because it is quite hard to know how to use it.

Hope this helped xD

PS - rip ANY of these sigs and you're dead.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:11 am 
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You would expect the almighty balmung the uber siggy creator to comment here.

*bows to him*

i am not worthy, i am not worthy.

so thanks for the tips, even though it was very attackish like post towards my first sig creation, why took me 15 mins just to figure out how to place another pic inside my sig... darn hidden "place..." button... so *hides from balmung* i'll make a better one next time... i promise... *flees*


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:50 pm 
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It is a good sig sirver...allthough it is cluttered.

The shotgun really makes the sig for me =]
I really like it :wink:


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 1:36 pm 
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Sirver wrote:
You would expect the almighty balmung the uber siggy creator to comment here.

*bows to him*

i am not worthy, i am not worthy.

so thanks for the tips, even though it was very attackish like post towards my first sig creation, why took me 15 mins just to figure out how to place another pic inside my sig... darn hidden "place..." button... so *hides from balmung* i'll make a better one next time... i promise... *flees*
Heh, don't worry. In the world of tagging/sigging, it's good to be harsh, but not too harsh. I was brutal but I gave tips on how to improve ;)

Anyways, I ain't no "uber siggy creator" anymore, I now have 2 strikes... I'm still wondering how I got the 2nd one >>;


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:10 pm 
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I like it. Good color choice, and... it's Vincent. How can you not love 'im?

I can tell that you need improvement, but, hey, that takes time, and this is your first sig. I can't even use PS (evil computer graphics of DOOM) so I can't really say it's bad.


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