Signature Repo

[Prince LunaShy]

So, as I own a copy of photoshop, I decided to try my hand at signatures. I'm proud of a couple of these, but most of them are terrible (cough cough my sig right now.) I'll toss these here, so you guys tell me if you want them and/or have a request. I can't possibly beat Kwaurtz in skill, but I'll get yours done a lot faster. Plus, I'm getting better every day at these. Anybody who can offer tips, that would be greatly appreciated!


REPO STARTS HERE:

[Leetgrain]

- Something I was working on for TowerSheep

- Something I was working on for Scooby

- shit I was working on for me

[Kwaurtz]

A couple of things I've noticed, and heres some advice:

Size: Your signatures are way too big.
Lens flare: Isn't really serving a purpose, right now it seems you are imitating J.J. Abrams and just adding it.
Backgrounds:I'm noticing either a lot of nothing, or just pasting another image behind the actual render. Doesn't really look well, in most cases. This is something that I'm working on myself. A lot of the time some of the better signatures I've seen come from nothing but manipulating the image in various ways to generate the background.
Colors:Never mix a bold color, like the blue of your name, on a super dark background like that, not only does it strain the eye for your average person, but that text is big, and honestly, not that appealing on the eyes. While it may look cool, a secret to the art of making signatures is that you want it to be easy to look at. If someone's gotta strain to look at it because of the color contrast, they won't bother.

In general, you want to keep your signature limited to three colors at max. And here you want to keep them generally within four slivers of each other, and never mix with the color directly across unless you have a thematic reason to. IE: Red and Green clash like motherfuckers, but during Christmas, is okay.

[Prince LunaShy]

A couple of things I've noticed, and heres some advice:

Size: Your signatures are way too big.
Lens flare: Isn't really serving a purpose, right now it seems you are imitating J.J. Abrams and just adding it.
Backgrounds:I'm noticing either a lot of nothing, or just pasting another image behind the actual render. Doesn't really look well, in most cases. This is something that I'm working on myself. A lot of the time some of the better signatures I've seen come from nothing but manipulating the image in various ways to generate the background.
Colors:Never mix a bold color, like the blue of your name, on a super dark background like that, not only does it strain the eye for your average person, but that text is big, and honestly, not that appealing on the eyes. While it may look cool, a secret to the art of making signatures is that you want it to be easy to look at. If someone's gotta strain to look at it because of the color contrast, they won't bother.
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I know that I make them too big - I'm just using these to screw around with.
The lens flare there is there because I forgot to remove it from the final piece(for the first one.) For the last one, I used it to show the curved lines of.
For half those images there, the background is made with the render used. First step, Filter>Render>Clouds, then brush a bit with black and white brushes. then, I copy-paste the render or image used onto it, until the entire area is filled. Merge layers used for covering screen. Then, apply a filter - motion blur works nicely. Set the layer to overlay, and you've got a background that won't clash with your sig. Other way - cover screen with the render, like before, and ripple it. this give a kind of smooth underwater-ey theme. Works good when you set the colors to something like the color on my smallest sig. 

[Kwaurtz]

Yeah, the whole ripple thing is cool when you are first learning it, but the way you are using it doesn't take full advantage of it. Heres a tutortial to help.

[Prince LunaShy]

my new sig.

[Prince LunaShy]

For storm.

[Boxman]

WELP, I hope you don't mind Kwaurtz but I'm deconstructing your post.

Size: Your signatures are way too big.

Size is nothing more than personal preference. I made signatures vertical, horizontal, large, and small.
Personally, the larger the signature, the more in-depth you can go with it.

Lens flare: Isn't really serving a purpose, right now it seems you are imitating J.J. Abrams and just adding it.

Lens flares typically add a distinction of light to certain images, used to create flow within a signature, but you're correct. The flares in these don't serve a whole lot of purpose.

Backgrounds:I'm noticing either a lot of nothing, or just pasting another image behind the actual render. Doesn't really look well, in most cases. This is something that I'm working on myself. A lot of the time some of the better signatures I've seen come from nothing but manipulating the image in various ways to generate the background.

This is also very correct. Color correction, blending, blurring, abstract images, etc. help distort the background without ruining it and giving it a different feel in comparison to a copy-paste sort of deal.
This is solid advice and highly suggested.

I found my favorite method of blending a render's image with the background is to make multiple copies of the render, spread them out evenly, get a proper blur setting, and make something like the bottom example.

Colors:Never mix a bold color, like the blue of your name, on a super dark background like that, not only does it strain the eye for your average person, but that text is big, and honestly, not that appealing on the eyes.

This, I disagree with. While it's important to keep in mind to not overlay blue or red text against one another, vibrant colors bring out signatures sometimes. I like mixing browns & pinks seeing as the dull pink mixes well with it, but again, all personal preference.

Also, take note that overdoing brushes takes away from signatures. Oh, and you should find proper renders that don't have white marks left behind.

Also, while I'm here, here's a signature I made about 2 years ago.


Here's a helpful site for renders/tutorials:
http://www.planetrenders.net/
http://planetrenders.net/forums/

[Kwaurtz]

Another site thats helpful for tuts, and renders, is Stealthart.net, of which I'm a Administrator for, and the owner is a good irl friend of mine.

[Prince LunaShy]

WELP, I hope you don't mind Kwaurtz but I'm deconstructing your post.

Size is nothing more than personal preference. I made signatures vertical, horizontal, large, and small.
Personally, the larger the signature, the more in-depth you can go with it.

Lens flares typically add a distinction of light to certain images, used to create flow within a signature, but you're correct. The flares in these don't serve a whole lot of purpose.

This is also very correct. Color correction, blending, blurring, abstract images, etc. help distort the background without ruining it and giving it a different feel in comparison to a copy-paste sort of deal.
This is solid advice and highly suggested.

This, I disagree with. While it's important to keep in mind to not overlay blue or red text against one another, vibrant colors bring out signatures sometimes. I like mixing browns & pinks seeing as the dull pink mixes well with it, but again, all personal preference.

Also, take note that overdoing brushes takes away from signatures. Oh, and you should find proper renders that don't have white marks left behind.

Counter deconstruction - GO!

Agreed. Sometimes, I like making bigger ones just to mess around. i'm just a noob here, and practice makes slightly better.

I wanted something there for the last one, but I just messed around on the other. Mistakes were made.

Yup. I think that the background and text are the hardest to create properly.

This. Green works with black or grey well.

Depends on the brush. The background is one thing, the foreground...... Well, it's just something I need to learn.

Thank all of you people here for responding.

[Prince LunaShy]

Another site thats helpful for tuts, and renders, is Stealthart.net, of which I'm a Administrator for, and the owner is a good irl friend of mine.

Thanks man.

I really don't know why you put up with me.

[Prince LunaShy]

Another site thats helpful for tuts, and renders, is Stealthart.net, of which I'm a Administrator for, and the owner is a good irl friend of mine.

Aaaaaaaaand somehow all of my email adresses are already authorized. What.