First Try at sig making.

[Naota]

Well this was done by reading Logi's thread on beginning sig making and I thought it came out fairly well. I tried it out and this is what came out. Please be easy on me @_@

[✗Gohma✗]

For a first sig? That's awesome.

[Naota]

Thanks Goh. :3 anything you can say to help me improve XD

[✗Gohma✗]

Well, I know you gave it a color theme. Red, and black and white right? That's a good point, but it doesn't have that much dimension. The sig I made with Kisame, in my signature, has a whole city behind him and it's blended (poorly) to give it more of a three dimensional feel. Depending on if you have photoshop or not, try adding effects with C4D's and other renders. Blurs and fractal brushes also help a ton with trying to get a flow in the background. Also, try sharpening the image to get it more crisp (: Hope this helped.

[Soul]

SWEET!!! RAGNA THE BLOODEDGE!!!!

Freakin epic bro, freakin epic I say...

[Naota]

I have cs5.



also same concept as used before, different render. I'm not too good with blending what tools should I use?

Edit:

Until I'm better I'm a one trick pony. So, please don't waste anytime brooding over telling me things I should do to better myself.

[KARKAT]

OKAY!
so you're doing what a lot of beginners do.. and that's taking the render and making it the background in a very non pleasing way. Dont blur the background like that ever again <3.

Okay, so hold off on trying to add text.

If you can, try to work with an image's original background, maybe smudge here and there, use c4d's and other stuff. (hyper right now sorry i forgot what the actual word is). Using a mix of c4d's and messing around with certain things you can more or less get a tag like this:

now if we get into smudging which is like a whole other thing, you would more or less use effect c4ds to get shit like:

For you right now, i'd recommend learning to blend the render with the background and the way you size/place the image in.~ also colours as well. And soon you'll develop your own style of sigs and such.

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rule of thirds


read it. <3

[Naota]

I'll try my best to not fail so hard

[Taro. (FINISH HIM)]

What they all said.


Nah but really - your sigs are decent. The one thing you are starting out with that i like is FLOW. it could use some work but it's there.

Follow what some of the other people said about blending. Use tools like blur and smudge. And remember when blending, layers layers layers. Almost everything you blend should be in its own layer so that you can fuck around with the little layer drop down menu and select overlay or soft light or whatever the fuck. Otherwise it will just look retarded.

I'd say hold off on lighting right now, you're doing a decent enough job with the sigs and I don't want you to become too overwhelmed. Lighting looks like it'll be easy for you anyway.

Use C4Ds in their own layer and free transform to align them with the render in a way that you want. You can also resize with this. Then, fuck around with that little drop down menu again and also with opacity. Make sure render is blended nicely.

Your effects are nice, honestly. Only thing I could reccomend is maybe using stock photos and blending those in so there's less empty space. I always use stocks of space Makes for interesting tags.

Look around at tutorials and decide which elements you want to include into your OWN style and which you don't. The main thing I emphasize with sigs is having your own style - which you've already started.

Just work on blending, then once you've got that down lighting. Also, in your 1st tag there was potential for depth but you didn't really take advantage of the render. Using blur and sharpening in a smart way can make real good depth.

Text comes last. Don't be too flashy with it. And like dara said, read the rule of thirds.

One final tip: Adjustment layers. Google it. They can make or break a sig, but I think you'll do fine. Play around and decide what you like. Trial and error trial and error trial and error. People aren't born good at GFX.

[Naota]

AMEN to that.


[Trial and Error Phase]

I tried using the blur tool on certain parts of her and each rose blossom. Used a C4d, idk what to do with the background though @_@.

[✗Gohma✗]

Just wanted to say, great progress. Already in a couple days, you made a good sig. Lol with some basic fundamentals like blur and c4d's, it looks much nicer. Don't forget to mess with the filters and play with the settings like multiply and screen and what not. Also, another tip: Try putting a gradient on the whole thing and lowering the opacity. That gives it a good effect, judging on the kind of sig. Keep it up, looks awesome.

[Naota]

I fucking like this one XD

[ranging]

hey i dont know how this woreks on PS but a good tool to learn how to do is a take a render and put it in there, then make a copy behind it with a gaussian blur, which gives your character more effectover the image, nbot in all cases but i seem to think it makes your char stand out more... Good job btw..

[Naota]

I think my first few sigs use blurs as the background. I stopped because I use c4ds now. XD

[zenoske1ryu]

The guys above have the right kind of advice, if you look at a few tutorials they help you pic up tips & tricks to improving your GFX work in general.

In general I like your work, its a good starting point. One thing that bluring will help with is creating one focal point, If you blur/smuging the background slightly then it will draw the eye to your main image for example your render.

Something else I do which may work for you, is I sometimes burn around the outside of the sig but only lightly. (something I found on a tutorial) You could try giving it a go.

[Naota]

WILL DO!

[Deleted]

I can't say anything that everyone else hasn't already said. But dude. You're already better than me in some aspects. And I was sigmaking for like, a year.

Oh woops alt. This is Kaizu.

[Naota]

ilu Kaizu <3

[Naota]

Double Post.






Shits hot bro.