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The effects are sweet and the depth is there but the focal needs sharpening. The text fails. Work with more simpler text. The text, while it could make or break a sig, it should not be the main focal unless if its a typo based sig. Increase the contrast in between the colours of the sig and add two gradient maps. I suggest black/red & a rainbow gradient. Lower the opacity and set these on soft light.
Other than that, it looks nice.
WoW i love this tag, ( Especially the one without text ) there's just 1 thing that bothers me. The reapers colors don't match the rest of the tag ( IMO )
i know reaper is supposed to be dark & Evulcookiez and stuff but it just bothers me :P love this tag man, and i would love YOU even more if you would make a tutorial on how to do that lighting:P
No need for a tutorial, here i made a ss for ye:
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/8135/82676305.png
First of all Burn a shadow/midtone areas a bit, where light wouldnt normally hit in reality
now for the lightning layer - as you can see its all about omni lights, my main lightsource is in a bright area behind him, comming from a stock (i always choose these types of stocks with natural lightsources), this omni over there got intensity of 10, its almost the biggest (as it should be for main light source), i placed other omnis in places where i think light would naturally go in reality, dot near his shoulder one in the left got 7 intensity, its a bit less than lightsources intensity, since it would naturally be darker and omni in the right got only 4, cos its required to only minimaly light this area
far away omnis (from left to right) got 9 and 12 intensity, 12 cos the right area was really dark after ive put main omnis, so i decided to lighten it a bit
its all about thinking where light would naturally hit the focal or w/e and experimenting with intensity, ohh and dont forget to convert your lightning layer into a smart filter if you got cs4, it will be WAY easier to change intensity of light as you need..
Great job !
