I stumbled upon this forum through google (was looking for some tutorials) nice place ya'll got here ^_^
I'm not a TOTAL photoshop n00b, here are some sigs I've done:

http://img117.echo.cx/img117/2519/soulsig048bn.jpg

http://img117.echo.cx/img117/1408/doomsig042pb.jpg

http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/4189/jumbosig9fu.jpg

glad to be here