first attempt at a sig.

[kabodle]

with little to no experience with photoshop or any program of the like i give you these.

1. [IMG]https://lh5.googleuserconten*****m/-YQ3nFyt7cnU/Tf52dDbmuOI/AAAAAAAAABA/G5Dr9G2IT7c/s800/purple.jpg[/IMG]

2. [IMG]https://lh3.googleuserconten*****m/-6w2l0Hdo_pA/Tf-ytAqH_cI/AAAAAAAAABM/xD4n45hiLIo/s800/reaper.jpg[/IMG]

3. [IMG]https://lh5.googleuserconten*****m/-eTrau8rrHjs/TgKFzq-U27I/AAAAAAAAAB0/UQiUjseXZ3o/s800/miso.jpg[/IMG]

tell me what you think and what i could do to help improve my future ones.

also my sig is one i made aswell. i render and make my sigs myself

[Faux]

Just a little tip for the future. Try saving your images in PNG format rather than JPEG. The image quality will be greatly noticeable.

[kabodle]

oh ok thanks for that. never thought of it.

[Jacket]

Maybe smaller sig sizes?
I'm not a fan of huge sigs :/
Personal preference.
Just asking,but did you just put a background added a render and then text? ...
Looks pretty much like everything you did
Anyways save as .pngs next time like Faux said.

[kabodle]

yea thats pretty much all i did. i dont read tuts alot. i have little experience and i guess ill make them alittle smaller next time. im also looking for some help on what would make them better. i dont have alot of time to work out all the kinks i have. but some pointers from the community would help alot.

[ARHQA$Y$YW4AYG4y]

The third is cool, but too big...

[kabodle]

haha thanks. i kinda had a hard time of finding a good image for it. wish i had better experience with photoshop. but ill end up making another one in the future like that one. but abit smaller. what size do you guys think will be better for sigs?

[ARHQA$Y$YW4AYG4y]

I usually make it 420x200, maybe even smaller but in those proportions...

[kabodle]

umm... keep going haha. but anyways its about 1:22am here so i needa get some sleep. hopefully when i wake up there will be some advice for me on how to make em better

[Kyle]

@ EVERYONE

Just a little tip for the future. Try saving your images in PNG format rather than JPEG. The image quality will be greatly noticeable.

Sorry but i've heard this all too much now and it's just not true. Let me illustrate. This is not just at you faux, sorry if it looks like that :3:





One is a jpg, the other a png. Without looking at the link code its impossible to know. Why? Because Photoshop intrduced the 'difference' layer mode. This essentially highlights any differences in the layer with the one below. With the above example we get this difference:


Thats how much visable difference there is between them. Black = same pixels. Granted there is an extremely small differerence, only visable with wacked out adjustment layers. If you claim to see a difference its because you're sub-conciously trying to find it and they appear very slightly differently according to the levelm you view them on your screen.

Let us compare this to a lower quality jpeg: (this one is about 1/4 of the full quality jpeg [i.e. mostly uncompressed]



The difference is now visable, right? and it shows in the difference layer:



Conclusion: Please can everyone stop using the file type as an observation to poor quality. That is solely down to the person who made it. Stop jpeg hate. P.S. youtube this is no excuse to keep your 256kb limit. Even RSS twitter allows 800.

@kabodle Practice, practice, practice. Just keep working on stuff and you'll get better. Simple as that. There are a ridiculous amount of resources and tutorials on the internet that it would be pointless me linking you to any one of them. GL.

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[Kyle]

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Do you not agree?

[Parade]

Do you not agree?

Newp. No jk, yes. Why do people use the png format then?

[Kyle]

Newp. No jk, yes. Why do people use the png format then?

Mainly because it makes no difference which one you use. Especially since the difference in size (kb wise) is trivial with today's speeds. And obviously if you occasionally do stuff with transparency then its just a matter of personal preference. In all fairness its no big deal, but telling people to save as png isn't going to solve their issues.

[Mokou-Sama]

I Love the third one, its awesome!. Yet they are bid, use sizes around 400x150 like Splinter said.