First attempt

I created an avatar and signature. First time using photoshop, so, be kind, but...


and


The original rendition created by Steven Scougall, and can be seen (in all its B&W glory) at this site.

Your thoughts?

Well, I always thought the truth makes you a better and wiser man

so

I think it sucks. It's just a picture with text. Theres no special effects, no brushes, nothing. I could give you some recommendations.

What program are you using? Gimp or Photoshop? Or maybe something else?

Don't worry, we were all new once

Kaination said:

Well, I always thought the truth makes you a better and wiser man

so

I think it sucks. It's just a picture with text. Theres no special effects, no brushes, nothing. I could give you some recommendations.

What program are you using? Gimp or Photoshop? Or maybe something else?

Don't worry, we were all new once

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Photoshop 7

You say that it's "just a picture with text." Did you not notice the aura I endowed to the sword and knife? Took me an hour to figure out how to get those aura effects to work...

mf29 said:

Ditto.1234567890

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Pleas be constructive or don't post at all.

Sandstorm said:

You say that it's "just a picture with text." Did you not notice the aura I endowed to the sword and knife? Took me an hour to figure out how to get those aura effects to work...

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Honestly, stop trying to learn it yourself. Find some tutorials. In that hour it took you to figure out how to do that rediculously easy effect, you could have found a tut online showing you how to do that, found another tut on how to make a cool background, found yet another tut on how to blend it together, and had a decent first sig.

Google + Photoshop Tutorials = Friend.

http://www.tutorio.com/signature-tutorials3.html

theres a good site.

edit: Message me on AIM/MSN, or PM me and I'll try to show you the 'typical brush' sig, to make something easy. Eventually you will pick up your own strageties and create your own sigs.

www.good-tutorials.com

That's a good place to learn. Also, if you want a creative signature, don't just reduce the size of the stock and place it in there; instead cut out a portion, for example her head and place it there. The stock is rediculously small and hard to see in that sig. Also, generally a blank BG is never nice to look at. You want to find something appealing to the eyes.

If you need help you can PM me and I'll see what I can do to help. But remember, it doesn't have to be complex to look good. Simplicity is always good as well.

Regarding my avatar/signature, as of today.

People still seem to think it's just "two pictures fused together," which it isn't. I completely redrew Moriah in photoshop last night. The backdrop is a picture, but the foreground is not.

Still, it's amazing how rude people can be regardless.