Early Christmas Sig

Opinions please

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5310/nausantaer9.png

lightning needs work.
baground is not good.
Blending needs work.
text needs work.
needs depht.
needs flow.

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lightning needs work.
baground is not good.
Blending needs work.
text needs work.
needs depht.
needs flow.

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Hey Conneccter you be from Royan Designs?

Your lighting is really only a flare, and gives no sense of it actually being a light. It just seems to be a bright spot on the sig. Might try to darker outside areas of the sig to enhance this.

Background seems to be the render taken over again and filtered. You can normally only get by with this if you have multiple filters with a focal point. At your bg is so over powering it looks cluttered with your render. Might try splatter for just around the render, then add some negative space on the outside.

For text, most strokes don't fit for sigs, and also bigger pieces as well. I would suggest taking the stroke off and adding a drop shadow behind it with 0 distance and 100% opacity. Also wouldn't seperate your text. Might try all caps to :P.

There's not much sense of depth in this sig since your colors are as strong as your render, but as I mentioned if you give negative space on the outside this will solve some of that issue. Also might try to saturate it some.

I think what Connecter means by flow is blending the render with the bg, but it's kind of hard to tell from just the word flow alone. He could also mean the flow of your text render and bg together for and overall better matching piece of work.

You have a good foot in the door, and know how to get around PS but just need to look at a few more tutorials for balance :).

y dont u add somewere else ur text and try changing it
also i agree with Nightfire u know about PS but u need to see some tuts..also i believe that it is a bit tirring to see around the centre of sig all this away too used render..try to add brushes they always help..and the colours are too tiriing...!!:p