Children of Bodom sig. Experimented a bit.

[LPKoRnA7X]

Well, what do you thing? Any suggestions on what I could improve on?

[Uprising]

How did you make the border? I can never seem to find a tutorial on how to make borders like that!

[Daemon]

One thing you could do to improve this sig is to get rid of the scanlines.
Keep a 1 px simple border or go with a cenima border.
Maybe aff some clipping mask to make the bg more interesting.
Make the render blend in some more, either with some effects or the eraser tool keep at it.

[LPKoRnA7X]

Only thing is that, well, I'm not quite sure what the clipping mask is. o.O

[Daemon]

ohh, you make a new Layer and then with a brush, splatter works good here, brush some on that layer. (any color can be used) Then hide the newly brushed layer, create a new one again. Go image>apply image. Now you go Ctrl+alt+g that will create a clipping mask. Move that layer around and you will see what it does.

[LPKoRnA7X]

Oh Thanks. Lol. I know what that is, just wasn't familiar with the name lol.

[tunafish69]

The light source you added should be for userbars, not for sigs, try a 300 px soft brush on white, then a new layer 150 px soft brush on yellow, and set it to screen.

The lines on the botton look kind of like they don't belong there.

Try in really small text, like 3-4 to put the lyrics of a few of their songs in the bg, like just to add depth to it

Other wise, add a few more clipping masks, and give the dl to those arrow shapes, I like the look of them

over all: 8/10

[Daemon]

The light source you added should be for userbars, not for sigs, try a 300 px soft brush on white, then a new layer 150 px soft brush on yellow, and set it to screen.

The lines on the botton look kind of like they don't belong there.

Try in really small text, like 3-4 to put the lyrics of a few of their songs in the bg, like just to add depth to it

Other wise, add a few more clipping masks, and give the dl to those arrow shapes, I like the look of them

over all: 8/10

Well there is something here, Tuna does you really use a 300 pc brush to make light sources? thats like OMFG big. I have like 100-200px and then at least half of the brush out of the sig then i go down to 70-90 px and make the light source. Mostly like 86.

[cC.Aleksander]

I dont think the style fits with Children of Bodom at all, but except from that, it's a good sig.