I believe you can discuss things such as graphics in this forum so here it goes: What do you think of my newest signature? SHOWN BELOW: || || || || \/
Pretty cool, I especially like the glowing white lines around the spartan, I need to find out how to do that lol
interesting I'll give it that not really to my personal tastes but all things considered I give it 9.8/10.
How "atomic" of you =] This looks pretty nice, only things I would suggest is not to go overboard with the glowing lines and and to use a less "fancy" font, something more subtle would compliment the signature more I think =]
Thanks for your comments. To make the lines like that merely follow these steps if workng in photoshop: First step is to create a new layer on top of whatever you are working with. Then merely: 1. Select the brush tool and a size. (Hard, 5 is what I used. ) 2. Click the pen tool. *Make sure you have the brush set and have "stimulate pressure" clicked. 3. click and then click in another point while still holding down to make a curve. 4. Right click and select "make path". 5. Right click and select "delete path". There you have it... a nice glowing line. There are more steps to finish it off. 6. Go to "layer styles" and right click. 7. Select "blending options". 8. Select "outer glow" and select a color of your choice. 9. Set the blending mode to "color dodge" to ampliphy color. 10. Just make as many you want and in whatever pattern to get the desired result. *To bring the lines behind your image, drag that layer behind your image layer." Hope that helps. Also, I went with the spartan because it is one of my most recent screenshots and my favorite. I went with the font because it is also my favorite and I thought accented the entirety of the image. Thanks... p.s. besides the brushes used for the lines, I did not use any downloaded or preset brushes to create this.
the background was the most difficult part. The background is a watercolor painting I took off google, then I just added a gradient map fading from green to black. Then I added multiple layers of circles with that green color at different opacities on each layer. Then I added in some lens flares and white dots with the green glow for added effect. I made it sound very simple in this thread but believe me it was the hardest thing i've done yet in photoshop because I never messed with multiple layer opacity, transparency, and gradient maps until this one. Also there was a lot of layer style blending options that are added in. The main blending option used was "color dodge" to enhance glow.
Oh ok but why didnt you add the glow effectto your name? thats what i usually do but your name is kinda hard to read.
no there is definitely a glow there. It is just a different shade of green at a different opacity and color style. I didn't want to accent it that much. I went for a very stylish font and color effect to somewhat blend into the sig and I feel I did a good job of it.