Fred Jones sig

[wolverine30]

I think I improved from my last sig.What do you think?I have better text and a border now!Comments and Tips please.

 

[niall2doc]

text is really bad and bg isnt that great either but you are improving ... read tuts,try to use stocks and download brushes from deviantart to make your bg's better . text will improve as you make more and more sigs!

 

[wolverine30]

What are some good brush sites? And when you download them, how do you use them on your sig?Thanks for feedback niall.

 

[BuLLzDoMaIn]

ah rookie days I remember those.... But you didnt do nothing to the BG. You just clicked on something thats already there.... Yeah get brushes to start off.. find sites to help you out ETC

 

[wolverine30]

Well I said I had better text and a border this time. I didn't say my background was good.

 

[7Goat]

Dude, it sucks. EDIT: I'll elaborate on this, not fair to just say it sucks and move on.The text might be good in another situation... but the background is horrible... looks like one of those patterns for Windows 95 wallpapers. Get some brushes, and make a sig that isn't just a pattern... make it creative, but make it look good. It seriously looks like you're using paint. Actually I could beat you in a ssig battle using paint... Text placement is horrible for the sizes of the words.

 

[iversonfan268]

No man text is still horrible. You have to start using some better fonts. I'm not great with fonts but some good ones to try are Sylfaen(default font), Bauhaus, BD Bardust, Barron, Only When I Do, Crillee, and Arial Black. Try downloading fonts here....http://typenow.nethttp://dafont.com

 

[niall2doc]

a good brush dload site is deviantart.com also try psdcentral's resource section

 

[wolverine30]

Ok thanks. I got my text from dafont.com and I didn't use paint. I know my background has to be better. I'm gonna experiment PS by using brushes on sigs. Is there a way that the text could have no fill and just be the background color? I see alot of people doing that and it turns out great.

 

[iversonfan268]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (wolverine30 @ Nov 2 2006, 05:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ok thanks. I got my text from dafont.com and I didn't use paint. I know my background has to be better. I'm gonna experiment PS by using brushes on sigs. Is there a way that the text could have no fill and just be the background color? I see alot of people doing that and it turns out great.</div>I'm just wondering have you used any tuts yet at all? Because there is a lot of tuts on bg's, pic efffect, text, lighting, etc. and it seems like you hven't found any. I mean no offense bt you've been doing ps for like a month now and you still look like you've only been doing ti a few days. You need to use some tuts. Try the ones herehttp://deadlyfiregfx.comgo to the forum labled tutorials.

 

[7Goat]

Make the text white, right click on the text layer, go to blending properties (or something to that extent) and play with the opacities... put on a shadow or something so it's actually visible.

 

[wolverine30]

Ok thanks ELiiTE and Iversonfan. I will go on deadlyfiregfx.com and see the tuts. I feel like I rush my sigs to much I do them in like 5 minutes and that's probably why I still look like I started last week.

 

[iversonfan268]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (wolverine30 @ Nov 2 2006, 05:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Ok thanks ELiiTE and Iversonfan. I will go on deadlyfiregfx.com and see the tuts. I feel like I rush my sigs to much I do them in like 5 minutes and that's probably why I still look like I started last week.</div>5 Minutes? honestly? Wow that is a huge reason right there. You are WAY, WAY, WAY overrushing on your sigs. On a typical sig I take usually around 2-3 hours. It sometimes takes me a few days to finally get a finished product(working off and on of course). You need to take your time and mess around with filters, blending options, tuts, etc. until you find exactly what you want.

 

[niall2doc]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (iversonfan268 @ Nov 3 2006, 02:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>5 Minutes? honestly? Wow that is a huge reason right there. You are WAY, WAY, WAY overrushing on your sigs. On a typical sig I take usually around 2-3 hours. It sometimes takes me a few days to finally get a finished product(working off and on of course). You need to take your time and mess around with filters, blending options, tuts, etc. until you find exactly what you want.</div>Wow thats a long time to do a sig !!! maybe thats why my standard isnt thtat high either - it normally takes me 30 mins to do a sig

 

[wolverine30]

2 or 3 hours is way too long. I don't even stay on the computer that long. The most time I have ever taken to make a sig was probably 20 minutes max.