Hey all! New to PS!

Hey all,
I'm new to using Photoshop and computer graphics, but I read up a few tutorials and manage to come up with a signature. Looking for any sorts of constructive criticism!

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9203/pikachusigi.png

New (Hopefully Improved Signatures)
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/2447/lugiasig.png
Same thing but with a bit of splattering and clipping.
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4...iasplatter.png

wow ) u need add more blending to pikachu or something else...and need read more tutorial,too bright signature here.

I won't lie. The signature is poor. Cannot see the focal as it's all the same shade of yellow, text sucks and it's overly bright.

Its not bad for one of your first, but try and get more clarity, what I mean is pikachu is a bit hard to see, so maybe make the background darker then pikachu's shade of yellow. I like how you used the pokemon font, overall its too bright so I can't really see what you've done, darken the sig up a bit.

Read some tuts. You'll get better. :D

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Originally Posted by RunningMan

Read some tuts. You'll get better. :D

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Basically what Run says, if you need some beginner and starter tuts, pm me. I got some.

Imo, the void is a bit hard to start off. Not saying you shouldn't stay, but it's a bit difficult to start off, not many basic tutorials.

Read up on some techniques and tuts somewhere else and post your work here for cnc.

Then you'll get great feedback as well, just make sure you're prepared for it, if you get offended easily then there really isn't a point in asking for criticism.

That's just what I think though.

What you should do is start off by learning the basics.

Smudging, lighting, flow and stuff like that.

Smudging is a really handy technique, try to find some tutorials on YouTube for beginners.

There might not be much tutorials on lighting, but try to look for some. If not, I can explain it to you.

Flow is just basically the direction of where your effects and signature go.

Just to point out an example, RunningMan's first signature, as you can see the flow is going downwards, that's the direction.

Or upwards? Well, you should understand what I mean.
So just try to keep flow in your signature.

I know I might sound like a hypocrite because I usually don't keep flow, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't :D!

These are just the basics though. Tbh, when I started Photoshop I let myself experiment a little bit and I watched other people making signatures on YouTube, it give's you a good idea of what to do.

Then once you develop a style and you know the basics then I suggest looking at tutorials here.

This is all in my opinion, you're free to do whatever you want :).

All right, thanks a bunch guys, I'll try work on it a bit more and hopefully come up with a new and improved signature.

Work on your blending. Also never but your text in the corners you usually want to put it close to the render, that way it does not fuck up the focal.
That is all the advice I can give you.

Well, I've looked at a few more tutorials and read your comments and now, have made a new signature. Please tell me if it's an improvement or not, and what should and can be changed.
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/2447/lugiasig.png

I also wanted to mess around with some splatter brushes and tried to make it not so plain around Lugia...
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4...iasplatter.png

The splatter is serving no purpose at all, Colour scheme of the splatter doesn't match at all and it takes away from the focal.

And to me I think there's nothing worse than a name that is like multiple words long or just a really long name. IMO keep it short, it helps you blend in with the theme, E.g Nuro. Running man is long so he uses "RUN" etc etc.Maybe shorted it to NYK or something.

Alright, so if I were to use splatter, would I use a mask that's more of a bluish/pink colour? Or not use it at all?

It's an improvement, but still. It's too white overall.

You need to darken your sigs, it brings more attention to the focal.

Also, don't place your text ON the focal. Beside it usually works.

Yeah, that green splatter totally ruins it. First of all, it doesn't coordinate with any other color within your signature, and second of all, it's too random.

Your border for the first version of your new signature looks a bit odd.

Get out your rectangular marquee tool, make a new layer and just go over the canvas. Right click and go to "Stroke" and then you can decided how many pixels you want.

I usually do 1 px for basic borders like that, 2 px is the highest I'll ever go.

Oh yeah, black borders usually work. You can use white too though. But considering your signature is practically all white, black would look better.

Alright, so if I use a Darker Render, I'd go with a brighter background, and with Brighter renders, I'd go with darker backgrounds?

I'm not sure what happened in the first one, I must've moved an entire layer accidentally without knowing showing that bit of black.

I'll try make another one today, hopefully without all the random crap all over the place :)

Thanks a bunch
~Nobody