How can i improve this?

Hey everyone, how can i improve this sig?
me and a friend are having a competition and I would love to beat him.
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4...ueofshadow.png

anything i can do to improve.

Really nice job on those effects!
I would take off the clipping masks and reduce the size of the canvas on the right side.
Try that and see what it looks like. ;)

I would say remove all of the clip mask bars.

Otherwise Its a dark and nice sig with suitable colors.

Good luck with the battle ^u^

If I were you, I would change the text color to something that matches the background, and as everyone else said, get rid of the clipping mask lines.

i kinda like that cliping masks lol, maybe i would remove bars under the text, cos they ruin your flow i would leave vertical ones tho, and maybe even add some of them behind him blurred, dunno why but i like them xD

I'd crop it tighter. You have a lot of excess width and some exess in hieght. If you crop it it'll look more packed.

Also i'd add some brighter colors. Maybe one or two bright c4d's and then just milk them.

Your clipping masks and effects are on. The sig is too long though so resize it. Crop it tighter like how Papa said. I like it the way it is but if you want, that is for overkill, add some fractals in the right side.

Clipping masks look good and the effects too. Work on the text, and I would take away all or some of the clipping masks right under the text though :P