First Sig

[dante_pe]

Hi All!
This is my first Sig. First time i use Photoshop & Brushes. But i think the BG looks like boring. hope you have usefull tips.

[Nightfire]

Wow great job for your first.

The text is actually readable XD. This is done well for your first. You seem to have a concept of bordersm scanlines, placement, and basic layout.

For suggestionsm for the type of bg you have your sig is to big. If you have more detial by renders, brushes, or depth in the sig you can make it bigger.



Something you don't have in this sig is depth though. Depth brings forth a sceneray or area that your render takes place in. A simple way is just adding negative space or darker areas to your sig. But not normally random. Needs to have some idea to force people to notice your render.

For future sigs or improvments ont his one try blending your render into you sig. This can be done by adding brushes around and on top of your render.

Your colors match well but it's a bit monitone. From this I don't know if you can do multicoloring yet but that' something you might head towards.

A good idea for text is stick with basic font, or default font. I know this is hard since almost everyone who starts out using PS really wants to use something new or something they haven't used before for text, but be warned text can make or break sigs. Sticking with basic font and trying to make a logo design out of your text is a great why to incorperate it into your sig.

This might be a bit much for you to understand right now but you've done nicely. As mentioned great first, it shows a lot of potential.

If you have any questions on what I'm trying to get across here, reply here or pm me and I'll try to explain it further.

[Edit] Oh yeah, since this is your first post on our forums, welcome to gfxvoid. Hope we can help you in anyway possible.

[saben]

This is awesome for a first sig. Like toshi said, you seem to have a basic understanding of text, scanlines, placement, etc. Your colors go along with eachother, and you don't have a huge border. Personally, i think the sig is a tad bit to big as well. Sizing it down a tad would make it look better i think. However, it is a great sig for being your first, and welcome to GFXvoid!

[dante_pe]

Yes i know is a bit big. Wich height & wide do you recommend?
And would you explain me more about puting some depth in the signature? I can barelly imagine it maybe you know a good tutorial about it. I have read a tutorial here about multi-color BG and i have postet it below. (Sorry if my English is not good - I'm spanish - german spoker).
I have realized that my weakness about the sig, is the BG i hope i can master it somehow

[Nightfire]

Well size really doesn't matter unless you make it so big your start messing witht he forum layout :P.

But for most sigs mine is even considered big. Mines 400x150. I remember a good size was 350x125 or something like that.

Anyway if your just wanting to make a good sig start small. To learn to actually complement your sig and increase your skill make bigger sigs. It's kinda learning to go into bigger art.

Depth can be done by giving darker areas to your sig. You can actually literally take a brush set it to black and just go over your bg. But that can cause some problems in the process. Best way is to mess with auto levels. hit ctrl and l to bring it up. Just mess with those to darken areas and lighten other to give good contrast in your sig.

This second sig of yours is also nice, but your render isn't blended into the bg. While the colors of yoru bg look splended your render's still just on top of it.

Also font :P stick with if at all possible.

Good luck.

[saben]

well most my sigs are 300 x 100, however that doesn't leave much room for a render and text. I would say try 400x100 and see how it goes from there.