Infamous sig

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Originally Posted by ilostmyname666

I did hold shift, maybe its the render? or your eyes?:p

@adam, what font would you recomend then?;)

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First of all, how annoying - my browser crash after I'd written loads :mad:
RAH RAH RAH

Anyway, back on topic.

Firstly the scanlines - in my opinion are interfering with the text, they make it look messy. You have 3 options here.
1, Remove them all together - though I do kinda like them
2, Lower the opacity of them
3, Erase more of them - outwards so they don't cover the text.

Secondly, I don't think you need a different font because default fonts are actually quite nice, placement is fine, though I'd perhaps move it depending on how the next outcome looks.
Don't worry about the font, worry about the text itself. Just because when you type a word and it appears in that text box, you have to leave it like that. Mess around with spacing, colour, bold or normal...

For example.

Infamous
Ilostmyname

That is what you have at the moment, correct?
Look at what you can do with that text to make it look more interesting.

INFAMOUS
ilostmyname

I N F A M O U S
i l o s t m y n a m e

I N F A M O U S
I L O S T M Y N A M E

I N F A M O U S
i l o s t m y n a m e

That is like, the best I can really do in this text edit box - but there is so much more you can do in photoshop. See how those look more interesting?
Use of colours you can use the eye drop tool to gather the right colours that match from you image, make one darker than the other so it doesn't look bland.
Make one word stand out more by bolding it.
Use spacing and make sure the words are even. If one word is really long and the other word is short, don't let it hide in the first few letters space it out

BIGLONGWORD
imakesigs

Looks kinda messy - though it can work.

BIGLONGWORD
i m a k e s i g s

looks alot better imo.

Also don't rely on using a contrasting colour to make your signature stand out. Always consider what colours go together
Blues, Purples and Pinks
Reds Oranges and Yellows
Nothing looks worse than making text stand out by using a nasty colour
Pink, Green, Purple, Grey

Hard to show on here, but I hope you understand. Doing my best to help you understand here. Need anymore information just ask I'd be happy to help.

This concludes Kans, post text tutorial XD

Better? ill keep playing around with the font but this IMO is better
http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o...InfamousV3.png

Better but play around with spacing and size.
IMO

INFAMOUS or infamous
looks more tidy than
InFamous

Better?
http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o...InfamousV4.png
Its the little bits that count now :D

It looks a lot better now, the guy looks a bit stretched though :P
also maybe you should lower the opacity of the scanlines.

Infamous looks fine
Make the ilostmyname capital letters
and try and center is as best as you can under infamous

like

Infamous
ILOSTMYNAME

Try and make it so both the top word and bottom word are level or centered as best as possible. Should look really neat then.

Or even Try

Infamous
I L O S T M Y N A M E

With spaces.

There, but i couldnt get the text to go in the place i wanted it, every time i got close, it snapped into place below the InFamous bit :S http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o...InfamousV5.png

Use the arrow keys to slowly nudge it pixel by pixel.

kk

Text wise
http://i341.photobucket.com/albums/o...InfamousV5.png

Is the best one imo.