As the title implies, this is where I will post all my signatures and other graphics I create.



Comments please?

i dont care for the part on the left as i just dont think it looks good

the little bit on the right looks better ..

the stock looks very out of place and the color scheme i dont think matches.

Hmm, I notice that green thing on the left. I never notice these things until I post them here. Perhaps I should remove that and de-blur the character a bit?

You know (this is a little side-note), I’ve never been able to get clear on what renders are. Are they the background things that are all fancy, or are they the stocks when you’ve erased all the stuff around them so that it’s just the stock?

Well anyway, the sig doesn’t look bad. =). The text fits, and the background (yellow + render thing) is pretty good, though I’d almost say the render doesn’t quite *fit*. It just seems to stand out too much and just be a big block of different colored strips, with no real “shape”. I think too, that maybe you could add more of those white rings you have on the yellow to the left?

Also, as you said, the stock is really blurred. Otherwise, I actually think the color scheme works pretty well and the sig doesn’t look too bad. Keep practicing with the renders (now I’m going into the assumption it’s the background) and soon you’ll get them to fit. But, this wasn’t a bad first try with them. =).

Renders come in both ways I think. 3d ones use in 3D max and C4D, etc, and the characters. This character was taking from a picture, though. The green render does not seem to behind the stock like the renders on the right, so tomorrow I may either try and make it fit like the rest of the renders, or remove it as there is a render behind I think.

By the white rings, do you mean more in that area? Thanks guys, comments are always useful. I tend to create something then not use Photoshop for a while after which makes no progress for me.

That sort of clears up the render thing for me, thanks. =). For the white rings, I was just thinking maybe you could add more, but to the left, not the right (keep what you have at the right and add some at the left of the sig in that empty patch of yellow).

I get you. I ill see if some smaller rings looks good there. If not, i'll just find something to fill that area, or maybe re-do the area with the other rings. I could maybe do something that adds to the text. Guess I will just have a fiddle around tomorrow as it is late ere in England now.

i think the sig is very nice. But the stock is very blur. The vibrant colour of the background is great but makes the stock's blurring look rather obvious. Nice work overall though. Nice text too.

But I think you should just stay on one thread instead of creating a new topic each time you make a new sig though. Makes it easier to see your past works at the same time able to see you achievements and improvements =)

RENDERS ARE NOT PICTURES THAT GOT CUT OUT OF A BACKGROUND!!! ;o; That is the most awful misnomer ever. A lot of people use it, to the point where it could be universal and a real word, but I've yet to ever hear a real professional use it in any way. (Real professional = someone who knows what they're doing and are getting paid. Dx)

But 3D Renders are pretty much anything created by a 3D program. It could be abstract like the one Phisx used, or it could be a render of a living room. But renders are NOT images cut out from their backgrounds. << I want to stab the person who invented the stupid meaning for that word.

Anyways, as for the sig, I would suggest getting better stock and doing more to the background than just slapping the render on and calling it a day. Since you didn't make the renders (or....did you? O_O) I think a lot more of your creative side would come out if you created a background and then added the renders in as something to compliment it, rather than dominate it.

Lol! My mistake then, my mistake. At another forum, someone opened up a “render shop” and all he seemed to do was basically erase the background from a stock. Never heard anybody else bring up render stuff, so I was under false pretenses. Oops. If it makes you feel better, you can stab people like me who spread the false meaning. xD.

OH lols I didn't mean it in an angry way towards you. It's towards everyone who insists that word is really meant for that.... <<;; /hiss

A real professional doesn't use any of the terms that common signature makers use anyway. So, to all signature makers, a render is a picture with its background cut out and a C4D render is the kind of render Phisix used in his signature.

And I know Rina, professional people don't use that term, but who cares really. In the signature community everyone uses it and as I said before, professional users don't use the terms we use anyway, so what is the point in bringing it up even?

To Phisix, what you could do is putting your C4D in a diffirent blend, usually screen works nice, so does overlay. It of course depends on your style as well.

I DO! :D

I bring it up to correct the wrong, that's all. Me and some others I knew from other places sat down and had a very hearty talk about whether it was right or not, and we researched it thoroughly and decided "render" does not correctly point to "stock - the background". So therefore, it is to tell those who think that's what it means, that it doesn't mean that at all.

It's a very direct concept, really.

As I said, professional user use their terms and the non professional users use their terms. I mean, the word "sig" or "signature" isn't even used by professional users and so are many other words.
The whole point is, we're not in the professional field of work and we have our own words that have been accepted for years, apart from the people that get paid to work with Photoshop.
And it really doesn't matter. As you said it yourself, it is used globally, so good luck changing the entire world xD.

I don't think getting it right or wrong is what this thread meant for lol. I know render as "the render I know" if its wrong and someone corrected me. Just apologise accept it? lol???

How about now guys?



Also, can an admin change the title of this thread to: Phisix's Graphics and Art showcase please. Thanks.

You can actually edit your first post and change the title / subtitle. =).

As for the sig, I think it looks a lot better. Though, the background almost looks messy because of all the ribbon things (the red you added in the background, plus the render-things you've had). I mean, I do think it looks better, it just seems kind of sloppy, if you'll forgive me for saying so...I think instead of adding more of those "ribbons" (red lines) in the background, you'd have wanted to use different shaped brushes that weren't lines (if that even made sense. >.o.).

Though...Maybe if the background weren't yellow, but a dark / navy blue, it would look less "sloppy" and instead more textured. The red brushing you added to the yellow probably wouldn't be as dominant and would instead come off as a subtle texture-ish thing. Then again, by now I'm sure it'd be impossible for you to change the background anyway, unless you haven't merged all the layers or anything.

Ah, never mind, I'm babbling. I guess I don't really have any more advice.

def. better on the background, though i still think the image stock does not fit at all in the sig.

Ah, I did not know you could re-name your own thread. Thanks.

I thought the new background work better as it sort of matches the red render on the back right. Yeah, I don't think I can edit the background anymore, I might just start work on a new or different sig. Heh.

To VS:

You don't? Oh, I thought as the character had red eyes and a red cape it would and does match the reddish background.

Thanks for the comments anyway guys.

I wanted a new signature and liked the character from my first render sig, so I created a new one with him in. I like it.

Awesome background dude. Like the render and think it fits in quite nice, though it took me a while to notice the text, still I really like it.

Yeah, I really like that one. The background is pretty nifty, and the text goes well with it. Your stock is much clearer in this one as opposed to the blur in the other one, so that helps.

The only thing I'd suggest though, is to maybe make slightly smaller sigs. You have this vast portion of it dedicated to the background, and while it's appealing to look at, it makes the sig look very big and slightly empty. Maybe that's just me though. I think it'd look better if you cut some of the width and length off. It's good to have a great background, but you don't want too much of it unless you're going to add stuff to it without making it really crowded.

But yeah, maybe that's just me. Either way, I still think it looks great. =).

Thanks guys. Someone from this forum gave me the idea to put my text where it is. Somewhere different from where I usually put it.

Thanks and noted, DB. I was thinking of putting something in to the right area, but I could not think of anything. I will try something new and different next time I create something. I have an idea of what I want inside my head, but creating it would be hard. I will still give it a crack though.

I'm not really sure if it's the stock itself, or the fact there are diagonal scanlines over it, but it still seems a bit blurry to me. @___@ Personally, I wouldn't put scanlines over stock like that. It's subtle, but I think it plays around with how the eyes view the overall image.

This latest sig you have is better than the one you experimented on at the top of the page. It seems like your stock/background interactions are getting better, and the background itself looks very cool. Hmm, some slight contrasting for your stock maybe? It might be overkill, but I'm a stickler for contrast so you might be able to get something more dynamic from it. (Design tip; Diagonal compositions and high light-and-dark contrasting make for the idea of "action" and "intensity".)

Cheers.

I'll mess with the contrast tomorrow and see if it looks any better, and I will just keep the lines for the background bit if I can.

Was bored so I came up with this? What do you think?

I dunno...The brick wall seems a bit too...outlandish in comparison to the image of the galaxy beyond. Maybe if you had windows or something it would work better, but the wall (or at least the particular one you’ve got) + the galaxy doesn’t really seem to fit. Maybe that’s just me. I do like the text though. You give it the graffiti look on the wall.

I dunno. I’m not too fond of it, personally. It just doesn’t seem to fit. >.>.

It was only a quick muck around, but it didnt go the way I wanted. I wanted there to be a different dimensions behind the wall as it was knocked through. The imagination part is what counts.

Ooh...I can kind of see that now. From what you have, it’s a little too two-dimensional. You’d have wanted to do quite a bit of layering/brushwork to get a more dimensional feel, I think...That’s actually a pretty cool idea though. I’ve never tried doing something like that in Photoshop. I imagine it’d be pretty difficult to do properly, honestly. *shrugs*. Oh well. You tried. It's the creativity that counts. =).

It looks very flat, which is caused by the wall. I think if you give the wall some 3D look, it would look much better.
Or maybe even better, if you can pull it off, is to have the wall crumble, instead of just taking a bit out.

I will continue to improve or restart from scratch in to I get it the way it should be, or close. Heh. Keep the ideas coming.

I actually did a quicky sig earlier to try and pull off the "knocked out wall" effect just to see how it could be done, but I don't think I did it any justice. Basically what I did was put bricks in the center (different sizes for perspective, though I think I bombed on that) and erased some in the center to make it look like dust. Added a few other effects on the sig to make the wall look like it was seeing some wear, instead of looking too whole.



Maybe that will help somewhat with trying to get your sig more dimensional? Mine's really not that good, but it shows more or less what I was trying to say before. It would be good to try and show something happening with the bricks to make the wall itself seem more dimensional.

Nice. That will help towards the final product. I was thinking maybe brushing the edges of the hole to show the galaxy behind trying to come out sort of thing. I want to keep the real look of the wall.

TBH, I have not worked on it yet, so it may be a while until it is finished.

Just spent the last hour and so creating my newest eddition: A newcastle united sig, with Michael Owen.



I didnt design this for a black back ground, so dont worry about the border. Comments please?

Looks nice. =o

I'd almost say the background is getting too plain though. The effects and color scheme are great, but it's losing that dimensional feel and looking more like a flat surface (even on a different color background color than the black of the forum). Maybe you could add some other effect over it (more to the right, where nothing is) or something. Otherwise I do like how you do backgrounds. =).

The stock looks great on it too. But, since the background is a little "flat", the stock seems too contrasted and doesn't quite seem to blend in with the sig.

That's just my opinion. I really think it looks nice though, the placement of everything is good and I love the text, but the background just falls a little short.

Good work though, and keep it up. ^^

Thanks. I was actually going for a blander background this time around, but I see what you mean. I wonder what I shall try next time..

By not going into too much detail, this one looks pretty neat.
I have seen many football themed signatures like these and this one looks just as good as the other ones.

You know what would make that sig absolutely awesome??? (At least the way I picture it).

The stock image? Do some filter effects to it. Like throw a few pastel layers, colored pencil, etc and change the opacities and what not. Maybe smudge it a lil or blur it around so it flows more with the background. Great job tho