brand new halo

I dont remember smudging, lol, i'll have to revisit my work and give you some smudge settings

yea it said something about smudging the edges and thats wut i did and that would explain the glow. yea well i did it yet again. i got rid of the glow this time. hows it look now? im trying to do it myself without the psd. idk i guess its a pride thing. i want to be able to do it by myself. well anyway, this is wut it looks like now:
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1782/halosigi.jpg

I'm ganna say it and I will feel bad about it but here goes, I say this only because I wish for you to improve (and everyone can always improve no matter who they are)

That tutroial is only really good for teaching purposes (sry Spartan killer >.<)
He is showing some really good starting places to learn some things about photoshop and what it can do but those stocks and the outcome really need to be picked better/improved/or blended more.

Like I said there are some nice tricks you can use in some signatures but put all together the way it was is poor :(

Good for you for trying and keep it up because you as well as anyone else can make some really beauty!
The best thing I can say here is don't give up and keep playing around with that you know and don't stop learning :)

Again I'm not trying to be mean but I am trying to shed some light so you can have more than one opinion.

yea thats fine. but wut do u think of the one i just made? like the last one on the post before urs?

your learning:D /claps keep at it ^^

lol thanks. how should i improve if i should on this sig or maybe i will start making another sig and see how things look on that one

One of my favorite things to do with making sigs is clipping mask and blending

If I was you anyways I'd get rid of the boarder and settle on something simple like a solid black line because you want ppl to notice your hard work with the actual render an not a boarder :)

I would get rid of the star stock ( or at the least tone it down) and I would go for something more to work with like a dead city or a desert or a havoc on fire kind of feel.
http://yfrog.com/5mpillarsofeveiibydemosthj

or something like this

http://yfrog.com/jyruinedcitystock628j

Don't be afraid to play with these either go ahead an turn them upside down or sideways, ANYTHING goes when it's your art :D

Sry I couldn't pass you to the actual pics, I got them a while ago some place and don't remember from where >.<

And these are just some ideas to get you on your way to a cleaner more shocking sig ^^ If you don't know what clipping mask is I will link you a thread later to show you how to do it :)
KIU<3

yea i know how to do clipping masks sorta. i mean it was a bit confusing when i did them yesterday for the first time because i followed a special tutorial for clipping masks but it didnt turn out so well. but ill be giving it another try again soon because i think i know wut i messed up on. yea i had a stock image of like this thing that was hard to explain and then i added 2 star stocks along with that one stock. but yea ill hopefully improve with each sig.

thanks for ur feedback :)

I had a real hard time the first couple times I was doing clipping and what I always messed up on was I would forget to hide the "splatter" layer before making an copy image.

Also another thing that could be going against you in a clipping mask is too much splatter at once, do little splatters and than copy than do another one with a little splatter. If you try to do all the splatter at once it just comes out bad :)

haha yea thats how i was messing up i think. but yea ill be sure to make sure i dont mess it up when i do it again. and if i do, ill keep trying :)