Signature Creation, Discussion and Improvement thread

[Sinfully Naomi]

Originally Posted by KiNA

Patience.. This aint like the rate your signature thread .. Maybe some peoples are quite busy with their life to post their own critic.

Anyway, the render are quite low quality .. and the BG really sort of random coloring work, the color are quite random. You seems to realised that your signature are too plain, then decided to just splash some random color to spice it up. Result is well .. a total random.

Decides whether you are going for a simplistic design, or elaborate theme (grunges vector, flowery or whatever). Plain BG will never work with multi colored. (at least I never see one yet. )

Okay, how you guessed that is beyond me. Pretty much all I can do is nod in agreeance. *nods in agreeance*[/redundancy] You're right, I didn't want a plain background, so I tried my hand at blending a few colors that mixed well for my taste. I actually didn't feel like cropping Taiga herself, so I still had the background from the art, as well as the blank space that I started with. After I started on the back ground, I had to blend them together, but then I needed to layer more and more things on to mak it look as "good" as possible, which is where that came up. I blurred the back too much, I guess. I was going to try larger patches of color, but I doubt that will be any better. I'm not really sure where to go from here. DX

[Blerghovic]

A sig I made recently. I've never got any real feedback on what I make so any comments would be nice

[Larthak]

Originally Posted by Hiraishin

A sig I made recently. I've never got any real feedback on what I make so any comments would be nice

Try playing with the font a little more...it may be better used to the left of the render (and it could be even bigger than it is now), possibly with the same color as the guys cloak. That way, it would be easily readable and usable for some kind of effect/detail that will further enhance the signature. Other than that, nothing comes to my mind right now.

Originally Posted by KiNA

Curse you Larthak! its KAMINA! AWESOME IMBA OMGWTFOWNAGE KAMINA ! Not just "the guy"

Oh, great Kamina-sama! Forgive me for my disrespectful words, for my limitless ignorance. I didn't mean any harm to your greatness! I humbly beg you, do not banish me from this existence!

Now, would you be so kind as to lift the curse, KiNA?

[KiNA]

Curse you Larthak! its KAMINA! AWESOME IMBA OMGWTFOWNAGE KAMINA ! Not just "the guy"

[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by KiNA

Some improvement.

Let see whats wrong in this.. We now have a main focus .. the BG face is still a bit distracting .. I would lower the opacity on it so its still there but barely visible to not make the BG too flat. Text is good, but I will align it to the left.. right now, it seems that you are quite reluctant to cover the BG face with text, maybe because you think it will make it harder to read? My advice is, decides the priority.. do you value the quote? or do you value the BG face more? My choice would be the quote, thus, I will lower the bg face opacity and write the quote above it ..

Yes the priority is the quote, but the bg face( the no-mask face). have is importance too. I changed the time of some verb ( text more coherent) the color of the text said/thinked by the narrator (from now, I will keep the color violet/すみれ色 for some technical element and line of text said by Amano Tooko). I hope it's better, but there room to improvement.

[Cierra]

Since this thread looks a bit of active again. I think it's time to post my new siggie fresh from the oven!

I always have probs with the background so i left it plain and simple(as always)
any comment would be grateful. thanks

[ganbaru]

Cierra, a interesting sig. A little over the limit and is it intentional than one of her side seem to got more light when the source of it seem to be at the center ( in her hand?).

[Larthak]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Cierra, a interesting sig. A little over the limit and is it intentional than one of her side seem to got more light when the source of it seem to be at the center ( in her hand?).

Look at Cierra's current signature (or avatar). Dizzy, that character has two different wings.

Originally Posted by Cierra

Since this thread looks a bit of active again. I think it's time to post my new siggie fresh from the oven!

I always have probs with the background so i left it plain and simple(as always)
any comment would be grateful. thanks

Well, it is...plain and simple.

You said it yourself. Not only that, I can see quite a number of white spots at the borders of the render. That needs fixing too.

[KiNA]

Originally Posted by ganbaru

Yes the priority is the quote, but the bg face( the no-mask face). have is importance too. I changed the time of some verb ( text more coherent) the color of the text said/thinked by the narrator (from now, I will keep the color violet/すみれ色 for some technical element and line of text said by Amano Tooko). I hope it's better, but there room to improvement.

Have you ever considered to italized some of the quote .. so they are not only separated by colors?
Also, your name is randomly placed .. I cant think of another place tho.. would consider dropping it altogether.

Originally Posted by Cierra

Since this thread looks a bit of active again. I think it's time to post my new siggie fresh from the oven!

I always have probs with the background so i left it plain and simple(as always)
any comment would be grateful. thanks

Not only the BG, as Larthak said, the render could do a makeover cleanup .. and its as flat as Taiga's chest .. no depth at all

[ganbaru]

Those two are just a insane idea than I got last night I honestly don't know if I will use of those one day,(or eve if it is usable).
Comment would be appreciated:

[felix]

What are you looking for with that post? Which is better? I prefer the one on the right... Or do you wish for criticism?

Possitive

• Its something different compared to images people use here.
• You use only 2-3 colors: paper color and solid red & blue.
• I like the non standard intentation on the quote.
• The sky in the seccond with its noise and the cirrus clouds looks good in contrast with the ground.

Neutral

• The font size used is small.
• I wish you would use more cheerful colors in your signature.

Negative

• You failed contrast on the font. Those settings on that background are taboo. The general consensus is that the way you are currently going about it is not design but "attitude" (if it can be called that), whereas you are purposely making it unreadable. This is not a good thing, do not annoy your audience its best left to jokes.
• You have - what appears to be - three vertical lines in the starting quote. I fail to see the purpose of that originality, if intentional.
• You appear to have two quotes in the first signature; if that's not the intention (ie. you are quoting different sources) then its a mistake. The ellipsis in that context is also a typo. If the 1st and 2nd part are from the same source and the ellipsis is to mean a break in content then the place everything under one set of quotes and the ellipsis which is not part of the text in brakets. Brakets (ie. "[" and "]") is what is - usually - used to symbolise inserted content in a quote, for example: "Those two [signatures] are just a insane idea than I got last night [...] Comment would be appreciated:"
• The clock has no contrast; I think placing a physical object there also ruins the symbolism.
• It doesnt feel like Poe to me. I do not really see how that small smuged polygonal area fits with the theme. The colors are a little too bold and random with the deep red somewhat cliche. (hint) The shades of red, for example, are not colors that have been associated with anything other then the generic "its red".
• Is the border necesary?
  

[Kelisidina]

*points to her sig*

[Larthak]

Originally Posted by Kelisidina

*points to her sig*

Seems pretty decent, though, of course, it can be better.

A few observations:

• The render is a bit jagged (especially visible on the left side on her hair), a subtle blending would eliminate this problem easily without reworking the render from the scratch.
• The background is nice, fits very well with the girl, still the area on the left feels a little empty, simply adding a text is another great workaround. Of course, the font could ruin everything decent so far.
• Sorry for pointing it out, but that sig is double the signature filesize limit. >_<

One more thing to praise. That 3D border is cool, good idea there.

Hope I helped.

[Kelisidina]

...lol I'll try to resize without ruining it XD And yeah the text actually ruined it.

Thanks a lot!! But I have a few questions:

What type of blending?
How can I improve the rendering?

Also, guys, what about:

Http://s694.photobucket.com/albums/v...isianthius.jpg

[ganbaru]

Originally Posted by Kelisidina

Also, guys, what about:

Http://s694.photobucket.com/albums/v...isianthius.jpg

I would remouve the light near her eye and try to make it AS safe ( the file is more than the double of the weight limit)

[Larthak]

Originally Posted by Kelisidina

...lol I'll try to resize without ruining it XD And yeah the text actually ruined it.

Thanks a lot!! But I have a few questions:

What type of blending?

Well, you can do a lot of stuff, you can smudge the edges of the girl or use a layer mask for blending, so that you hide all unwanted stuff.

Spoiler for layer mask:

Um...though I don't know if you're using Photoshop or GIMP.

Originally Posted by Kelisidina

How can I improve the rendering?

Did you cut the girl from some picture yourself or got a pre-made render from somewhere? If you did it yourself, what tool did you use for that? If not, well, nothing can be done about that.

[Kelisidina]

The layer mask seems cool I'll try it thanks =3

Tried making stuff AS safe:

[ganbaru]

Kelisidina ,is that a good idea to put that bright thing in fornt of the nose of the girl on the second sig? At first look, it look like some kind of big excrescence ( at least to me ).

[Kelisidina]

Actually I think it was because I wasn't able to clean her well enough. Buri can't edit it now because it's a JPEG file

[felix]

2nd is too big, the file size limit is 50,000 bytes (~48.8 KB).