First Sig

Just Got Adobe Photoshop well heres my first sig that i made,
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...perRKiller.jpg
what do you think?

Well, seeing that it's your first time and only using filters i think you did pretty good.

thanks, how would i not use filters so much to create my background,(totally new to this) :(

Not bad for a first try, but of course there's lots and lots of room for improvements.
First of all, the BG is very dull/boring and repetitive. It's also very flat, so add some depth to it. To add some depth, try adding "Brightness and Contrast/Curves/Levels". They help a lot.
Secondly, that lens flare doesn't really help the lighting one bit, it's just there and I don't think it looks very good.
Thirdly, I know it's your first, but try multi-coloring your signature next time, it will look better than just a dull green. Render is a bit too small, take advantage of the render and make it bigger, fill a little bit more space in.
I would also change the text to a much cleaner text so that it looks better and easier to read (Not that it&#39;s hard to read now <_<)

Overall, not bad for a first try. I suggest you read some tutorials and don&#39;t be scared and try mess around with the filters and blending modes!

ok well im working on another one ill post it as soon as im done, thanks for the help,

EDIT#1: ok heres my next one, i think its alot better then my first one,
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...KillerZone.jpg

Way better than the first one but the size is waaaay too big, make it smaller. But you&#39;re over-blending your render too much. Render looks a bit squished so next time, when you&#39;re resizing the render, hold shift while resizing so that the render will be kept in proportion.

I don&#39;t like the Bevel and Emboss effect or the font of the text, keep trying though :)

ok i will thanks you been a great help better than alot of other people, you ask on forums, or post, and they just ignore you but ill give er another try.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...llerSpyOps.jpg
ok theres my next one, but i kno that ones not that good, neways whats the best image size to go with ive been using 350x135

Don&#39;t worry, I&#39;ll help when I can, and I&#39;m sure that others will do the same too :)
To me, this 3rd signature is quite good, creative and original, well done. There isn&#39;t a definate size for a signature, so I guess the size of your first signature is okay. Try not to go over 400x150 though, otherwise it&#39;ll be too big and won&#39;t look good. This third one is definately the best out of the three, I think you should current it.
Now, for improvements, I think you should focus working on your text, try fonts like "Arial" very simple and clean. Probably a yellowy orange color would go with it too.
But the text you have now, it&#39;s black and white, doesn&#39;t really fit with the "Orange - Yellow" color theme. Nice job though, you improved a lot already :D

thanks, its hard to find ne good images to do nething with, so i was sittin there for at least 10 minutes just looking for an image and then i found that, but ill make some more, using simple fonts, and all, but once again thanks for all your help:)

you should try using some brushes to help create a background. check out the tutorials section, arsonist&#39;s tutorial is very good for beginners. as you progress you will learn to implement more tools into ps. dont worry my sigs were worse than yours when i first started.

yeh try some brushes out for the BG, if your using brushes the basic thing to o is to get a black BG and put white brushes onto it, you should just stay with basic text don&#39;t use the special effects they nearly never look good, i think for size you should go for something around 330x120 maximum

aight well heres another one, tryed messing with brushes more on this one,
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...killerHalo.jpg
this one to me is my 2nd best,

No offence, but I think this is worse than all of the signatures you made above. There are lots of empty spaces and the BG is really flat and dull. The renders are too small on the signature imo and Master Chief looks a bit squished.
You need color on the BG to make it look more interesting...Work on blending in your render as well. Keep trying though :)

yea i thought about it after i said it was the second best it does suck LoL anyways im gonna keepin working on em

hey go to pixel2life.com or good-tutorials.com or use climb-xs&#39; tutorials and they will help you improve and also teach you proper techniques

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hey go to pixel2life.com or good-tutorials.com or use climb-xs&#39; tutorials and they will help you improve and also teach you proper techniques

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aight i will thanks for the help, i really need it cuz some of my images look really crapy, thats why i havent posted no more yet trying to improve the looks first

i made this sig for another forum but its my best sig,in my opinion, Comments?http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...89/T2T6969.jpg

Pretty nice, I think you should change the colour of the background so it flows a lil more :). Keep trying :).

Your best yet :)

well i just re did it well the right side, because, a fellow Sig Maker, suggested i went back and grunged up the right side some more, and the final effect i got was this
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...9/fcd26acf.jpg

i like the 1st version of the latest sig you posted. it had good use of negative space.

well heres antoher siggy

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c3...illerNinja.jpg

You know you can open one topic a day? You don&#39;t have to put them in the same topic everytime you make a signature.

I&#39;ll just list the improvements that you can make. More depth to BG, add more to BG (make it more interesting and have less empty spaces), text and blend the render..