Inspired by Zeeb's sig quote, and with a stock I made while bored, I made a sig, and gave it to him. CnC and other stuff.
Well, I can tell exactly what you did, and I don't even own photoshop, nor do I use gimp often. The colors are sort of odd and mismatched, and don't really do anything to compliment the image/contrast other colors. It's a cool quote, and I see what you're going for, but I feel like the quote would work better in a photographic sort of scenario, where the first part of the text is in the sunlight, the other part is in the shadows, with a person facing downwards towards the shadows, etc etc.
Well, I'm not at the stage where I can get pictures to look decent in a sig, sadly. But what you said about adding sunlight and darkness to either side, that's actually very interesting, but I'm going to need to make a better stock, more suited for that.