10 replies to this topic

[saint-michael]

heres my next latest batcg of sigs.

[Burgin]

It looks to me you have too much spare time on your hands to create so many signatures. One thing i would say you need to improve on though would be to improve your text. Knowing to use great text effects help keep the greatness of a sig and its ability to catch the eye. Remember this as it will help alot, nice one though,
Burgin.

[twitch]

Signatures are getting a little boring and one-way now. In the beginning, it was fun and lead the way to an increase in the number of people using Photoshop and gaining skills, but now it is, as I have said before, boring.

Until touch-pad screens with super O/S are released, then I'm afraid that signatures aren't going to get any better in the future when it comes to features. I know it is a graphic, but look at the numerous features of JPEG 2000 or the full features of PNG.

[moonwitch]

I have to concur with Twitch. I mean, we (the moderating team) are working to keep this forum spam free, with decent content posts. ANd then you keep on posting a few words and more images in count than word count. Mike, on trap this is fine, you got gfxtrap. But please, not on astahost.

[randomdood]

ther really good except the second one and the bender one. i like a really busy background. try making an abstract background

[Sellaman]

I noticed that you had Saint Michael on your signatures. Is that Saint Michael the Archangel or something else?

[skedad]

Very creative, but I also think the text could be worked on... unless it is to be worked into the image and or background.

I don't think heavy shadows or embossing is needed, but maybe to make them stick out more.

But I think they seem to fit you from what I have seen earlier on. Keep up the good work and keep making more....

- skedad -

[Quatrux]

Never noticed this topic before, strange. Those are quite well done sigs saint micheal, I like most of them, only the last one could be a bit better I guess, somehow for me it's a bit as if I glue a picture on a picture without doing anything

Well done, even though some time ago

[laniczech]

I would like to see some text that matches the theme of the art, did you create the images yourself?
Ive seen some cool images done in vector

[levimage]

Yep I like them. I like the fact that you tried to make abstract textures in the backgrounds. The fonts though, they either tend to show their time or skills of the artist. Maybe you can do some vector thing, or stretch, skew, or transpose the individual letters (by fonts on separate layers/then group the words or phrase). You can even try to mask your Gaussian Blurs (GB) with gradients to induce some sort of depth of field. I wish I have the time to do such graphics. I like the those geared toward fantasy art, chicks, and old school video games. I then to think if you use to much GB it start to look like porn blur. I sometimes make that mistake too, after I find out I'm done and reviewing my edits. I think a GB with some sort of fading in an out on an animated GIF would be a cool exception but that's beyond my skills.

Some last comments would be to check out some site you do not normally visit and shoot an email as to what fonts they used. Well the best of luck to anyone following this topic and working on sigs or similar web graphics.

Edited by levimage, 30 November 2008 - 09:49 PM.