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[sev121993]

Alright, the main thing about all of these sigs is blending. None of the renders blend in to the bg. Remember, when making a sig, you are trying to make it look like the render belongs in the bg. Also, your bg's are really plain, you might try and add some c4ds, clipping masks, etc. And most of your renders seem really blurry or low quality. And alot of times your renders dont match your bg either. But you do very good text, (Better than me). And I noticed that are (As most people do when they start sig making) you are saving your sigs as jpg. Try saving then as png.
Hope I dont sound mean or anything, but this is all the advice I got when I started.

[Wolley]

Not mean at all!!! it's all stuff I really need to know ^-^

Aweeeee thankies
So are you, dear<333


New stuff, I tried taking advice
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[Tatty Bojangles]

overall

beautiful typography good use of effects, you blend well and have a good use of colours

~nice work

[Wolley]

Thanks dear!


New sets:

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[Tatty Bojangles]

Of the latest batch the first is the best

Beautifully blended and gorgeous typography,
wouldent look too shabby bas a new set

i dont know what it is about set 2 but its abit plain to me, typography in the right top corner is solid though =D

Set 3

the effe cts really distract you from the main focal and it doesnt really blend aswell as previous sigs ive seen from you

From what i see from this lot, your typography is one of your strongest area's

great work keep it up

[Wolley]

Thank you very very much!!!!!!!!!


Btw! I'm taking requests I really need the practice!!!!!


Sets for ZenErik:
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Random Signature:


More.
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REDONE:

[Angelic~]

Hm... I think you still don't have enough blending yet...
Choose some colours from the stock and just use those, and maybe put something INFRONT of the stock so it blends >_<
Btw I've realized that all your sig has almost the same bg now... you should try different effects, C4D's, brushes, etc. ^^
But the text is pretty good ^^ I think you put too much text imo >__<
Keep practicing and you'll get better ^^

[Tatty Bojangles]

What Angelic said ^_^

i mean yeah these are decent pieces wolley fase :3

You seem to have fallen into a trap of making sigs in a generic way and they all turn out the same, thats not always a bad thing but you know what they say "variety's the spice of life"

What i'd says is go check out some tuts to help with your blending and image placement. Typography is definitely your strongest area.

Anywho keep the good work up :3

[Des]

Ok since you asked for my opinion in a pm I`ll write a comment here.

The Bg and the extract doesn`t fit with eachother.
You need to learn how to blend the extract in with the bg, but not so much that the extract is the bg :P
It need to look like the sig is ONE image not 2 or more.
The bg should have colours that is on the extract
You need to find extract with much better quality then the ones you`ve used to now, and the same goes for the stocks you use.
Try out some tuts that you`ll find on deviantart or the forum I`m advertising, there are alot of awesome tuts that probably NO ONE one here have seen ;D

[Wolley]

Thanks everyone
here's my lastest:
(ALONG WITH MY CURRENT SETs)


I like a lot of text, it might not be for everyone, but I like it :/

[Tatty Bojangles]

from what ive seen your current 2 sigs are by far your best work

nice, simple, clean, what more could a man ask for O:

anywho keep making sigs like them

mmmkay wolley face? C:

[Xombii]

first sig on post 35 looks pretty well done, the sigs ur using the renders seem a bit small for the canvas, it make it seem like there's some empty space, also the 2 bottom sigs the BG's still dont really match IMO, #1 look good, #2 looks ok, #3 ehhhh, try using colors off the renders to make the BG's maybe?

[Paain]

i really like your FF works the one with tidus and yuna looks peaceful,and the cloud and misc FF cgarcters one looka great

[Des]

Originally Posted by Tatty Bojangles

nice, simple, clean, what more could a man ask for O:

Blending of the extracts.
Using extractions with way better quality.
You can find good quality extractions on planetrender.

[Angelic~]

The background is getting better ^^
For the first one, it still looks plain... how many layers did you use? You can add a bit yellow in it too =]
And for the last two, the background is not as plain as the others [yay!] but the blending isn't that good... i think you should pick colours from the stock to work with.
Maybe you should look at some tutorials?

[bayamesa]

what i do sometimes for a bg that matches the render, is before resizing the render, place it on your image, & idk, do something like wave or distort,
or smudge it.

[Wolley]

I've got new stuff, and I'm open for criticism, please make it constructive though and thanks everyone<3




the numbers on this are from Donnie Darko.
It's the date the world "ends"

[Des]

You need to learn how to blend an extraction into the sig.
Read this tutorial thing by Serated http://www.animeforum.com/attachment...7&d=1229137743

And check out the other tips here: http://www.animeforum.com/showthread.php?t=81418

[Angelic~]

Well, the stocks are blurry and bad quality imo.
I think you should make your stocks bigger [like just put the upper body part of the person in the sig and center it if you like] and put more focus on them.
You're improving with the background but the blending isn't that good still >___<

[Wolley]

A set for Lavos, two avvies to choose from.









New set for Erik

[Hyphen]

I love the Peach set! The sig looks a little blurry though.

[Xombii]

are u putting a blurred layer on top? i think the proper way to use a blur layer is to erase the layer on top of the render so the background is blurry, that way it ads depth but it looks like you just slap it on there. Well im just guessing.

[Wolley]

Actually, the blur is completely unintentional, I'm not sure what I'm doing that makes it blur that way, but yeah..

[Xombii]

maybe u could email me a PSD of one of ur sigs and i could take a look at it.

[Wolley]

The thing is I use Gimp not photoshop :{

Thank you for offering your help though, it's really sweet of you!! ^-^