My first official sig

This is my first signature without following along with a tutorial. As such, I would love some CnC on this. I really dislike the text, but I honestly can't find something I like, so I would very much like any recommendations on that so I can fix it. Thank you for your time.



http://imageshack.us/m/861/1954/realsigstart1copy.png

V2:
http://imageshack.us/m/651/9725/sdjkfhjkdsaha2.png

for your first this is amazing just work on the flew it camed alil bit weird except from that amazing kiu

Thank you. Can you explain exactly what flow is for me? I think I have an understanding, but I could be wrong.

thats very good for a first timer...its clean and not messy text in not that bad...

tips:
there isnt anything happening here so as much as possible try to add some nice bg and some nice effects

This is great for a first sig, Things to work on;

Flow: Flow is pretty much what it sounds like just make everything in the tag flowing in a single direction smoothy much like a river/flowing water.

Depth: Depth can be achieved by Blurring your background and effects that you want to look to be in the background, and then sharpening your foreground and effects you want to be in the foreground. Depth can also be achieved by burning and dodge certain parts of the tag such as burning the dark parts of the tag and dodging the already light spots of the tag. Most people like to burn around the edges of their tag to give it more depth. You could also use a high pass filter set on overlay and lower the opacity of the layer a bit to get some depth. To create a high pass layer you make a new layer> Apply image> Filter> Other> High Pass.

Blending: When Blending you want to try to get the render and background to flow smoothly with each other and transition from one to the other smoothly you also want to try to keep the render and background in the same color scheme or use colors that complaint each other. Using Gradient maps set on different settings like Lighten, Hue, Multiply etc will help you balance out certain colors and give for a nice effect.

Lighting: Using a white soft brush is never a very good choice for a light source, using the burn/dodge method I mentioned in the Depth section will give you a nice light source.


Effects: Your effects are nice, but they're all in the Background, try adding some c4d's overlapping the render.


Also, try not to leave so much negative space in your tags. You've got way too much space on the right side which kind of kills the overall feel, I like to just slightly off center my focal point(To please the idiotic rule of thirds nazi's.)


That's just a basic breakdown I'm sure someone else can explain this all better. But I hope this helps.

^you should make a guide or something like that for beginners and make sticky it or something

Very nice for a first. I think your main thing to worry about now is blending in your focal/render. This could also help your flow and fill out the negative space in your tag.
Remember to keep looking at tutorials, most people on this site know what they're doing and some do an awesome job, but they still encourage tutorials so that they can learn new things. So don't just stop now that you have basic knowledge of signature making.
Overall, good job and keep practicing! :)

Thank you guys. I changed a few things and now have Version2 up.

your even better than NomNom even though its your first time GJ

this guy is going to improve his skills very quickly it seems.

Guys it's his first with out a tut T.T
Not his first haha. So yeah bit less amazing now that we know that ;)


Anyway v1 is better imo.
The light source is bleh :l
Don't use a white soft brush for your lighting! It is very unnatural and doesn't look very good.
Effects are pretty good but that smudge just to the left of the render is not needed and throws the mood off.

Also pretty empty so that can be worked on with future signatures. Don't think you can do much with this signature to fill it up



Also @ Fork
that complaint each other? Don't you mean complement?

I'm not sure who NomNom is, but thank you nonetheless. And thank you sirenzo, I hope get better constantly with the help from the amazing artists on this website.

I didn't notice your post earlier josh, sorry about that. If I shouldn't use a soft brush for lighting, what should I be using? I honestly have no idea what to do to make a light source otherwise. And is there any particular reason you prefer V1 aside from my poor light source?

Oh, well I guess that means I have some small, tiny bit of potential.

haha man well to create good lighting is with the lighting effects filter.
Go filters > render > lighting effects. Select spotlight and then try to angle it in a way so that it isn't too strong but still shows a nice definition of lighting. What I'd do it angle it with the lighting come from the top left corner and angling down to be darker towards the right.

If you need help I can show steps in this.

Also another way that is very effective is your dodge/burn tools.
The dodge tool makes things brighter so you can use that to define your light source and the burn tool makes things darker.


Also as I said I prefer v1 because of the colours. That blue is a nice calming blue and just looks better imo

I only have Filter > Render > Lens Flare. I'm assume this isn't the same thing, and I'm unable to find any Lighting Effects. I also just made this one using only dodge and burn tools for the lighting. I'd like CnC on this one too, but my main concern is the lighting right now.

http://imageshack.us/m/228/1276/flyg.png

What do you think?

The lighting is much better, tone down the dodge on the face a bit and add more effects on the left side. You need to work a bit more on your blending. Try using some gradient maps and color filters.


@Josh
It was just a simple spelling error but the message I was trying to make still made sense.

@Edwin

Why would you find it relevant to bad mouth someone to make someone else feel better? People come here to learn just because you can do a decent job in photoshop doesn't mean you're superior to everyone else, please stop bad mouthing people.

HEY NO MORE BAD MOUTHING ANYONE

we all started somewhere and this has nothing to do with poes work so shut it or i will shut it for you

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HEY NO MORE BAD MOUTHING ANYONE

we all started somewhere and this has nothing to do with poes work so shut it or i will shut it for you

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Thanks Oats.

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Can you explain exactly what flow is for me? I think I have an understanding, but I could be wrong.

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Here's a simple tut about that topic http://www.gfxvoid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59371

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Originally Posted by RadillacVIII

Here's a simple tut about that topic http://www.gfxvoid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59371

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Thanks for that, looking at it right now. Hopefully I'll be able to put up a new one today showing some improvements.

Any other CnC from anyone?

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@Edwin

Why would you find it relevant to bad mouth someone to make someone else feel better? People come here to learn just because you can do a decent job in photoshop doesn't mean you're superior to everyone else, please stop bad mouthing people.

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sorry for that..will not do it again...