Custom Made Sig and Avatar [9]

[Bongo]

Right then, prepare to be amazed. I have created a sig for Tom. I decided to make it ambitious! It didn't want to follow traditional designs so created one that is unlike any I've seen before.

So here it is. Hope you like it Tom!
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This is the 3rd or 4th revision of the sig (I've lost count). The first version was scrapped completely as I made it the wrong dimensions. So I made it again! It was originally without the background and the paintbrush was much thinner but when shrunk to 650x150, it was unreadable. So, once again, I went back to PS and tried again! The 3rd version was without the background but I thought it was lacking something so I added it. Finally I got this, the final product. I think the hardest thing was getting the text to look right but it came out OK.

Hope you like it
Stephen

P.S - Britton30, don't expect all my sigs to be this ambitious, I had lots of free time to do this one

Nice design Stephen, Only your third or fourth revisionI know the feeling by the time I get to the final one I have trashed many attempts.
Jerry

 

[Bongo]

An addition to LADYPINKtomato1's rotation

And here's the companion piece to the first "limitless love" sig. In case you're wondering who the guys in the sig are - they're the gay lovers Brian and Justin from Queer as Folk (US version - based in turn on the UK version).

One more for Tom's rotation ... Lately I had nothing to do but using photoshop to pass some time.
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You three have made some very nice signatures

 

[Bongo]

Is it a case of double reflection? The reflection of the orb reflecting off the shiny and therefore reflective surface of the rim? Can't view the PSD layer on this old rattletrap of a library computer, so I'm guessing that there are two overlay layers involved; one for the orb, and another separate one for the rim

You guessed it right, in the rim, I put two reflection layers , with two different angels . One reflection is caused by the shine of the orb, and the other is due the the original object, but with a different angle.

Just a heads up but here's a tip when it comes to reflections etc.

If You create a reflection on one object then this reflection should be visible on the other objects (unless they have no shine in which case they should absorb the light or give off very little reflection at all.
In the example below I've shown a shiny orb which reflects any light then I have a very shiny chrome border which also reflects the same image.
The orb also has a blue glow to it which means that some of this should be picked up by the high mirror like surface of the border so some of this colour should be reflected from the chrome surface, we call this light bleed.
If you want the orb to sort of bulge out of your image then you need to create some shadow below the orb (the heavier the shadow the more it bulges out)

The key to understanding reflections is "light" and the surfaces it's hitting. An "overlay" layer is the best way to achieve this...

1. Decide where the light and direction is coming from and how high/low it is (in the example it's from the top left)
2. Decide which surface the light is going to hit (the shape of the object and how shiny/dull the texture/surface might be)
3. Create multiple layers so yo can achieve the feeling of depth. ( a little glow here and a small highlight there can make it all the more believable)

And last but not least practice, practice, practice .... hope this helps a bit

Very nice tip Nick

 

[Arc]

Can somebody make me a new sig? My current sig says Power User and I have been upgraded to Seven Pro.

I will try one ... give me some time .
EDIT : Well, here it goes ... let me know if you want any changes etc
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[koolkat77]

Can somebody make me a new sig? My current sig says Power User and I have been upgraded to Seven Pro.

I will try one ... give me some time .
EDIT : Well, here it goes ... let me know if you want any changes etc
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Well done Arc

 

[Arc]

Well done Arc

An appreciation from you means a big one now

 

[koolkat77]

An appreciation from you means a big one now

Blush blush blush

 

[Arc]

An appreciation from you means a big one now

Blush blush blush

Not needed at all. I have seen the entire way you crossed with your designing abilities. From the very noobish stuff to the perfect things of these days. Your hardwork is highly appreciated by me, coz only talent cannot do it so fast.

Just keep it up.

 

[koolkat77]

Not needed at all. I have seen the entire way you crossed with your designing abilities. From the very noobish stuff to the perfect things of these days. Your hardwork is highly appreciated by me, coz only talent cannot do it so fast.

Just keep it up.

Appreciate your kind words Arc

 

[Tekno Venus]

Can somebody make me a new sig? My current sig says Power User and I have been upgraded to Seven Pro.

I will try one ... give me some time .
EDIT : Well, here it goes ... let me know if you want any changes etc
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Great job as usual Archie. You are one talented artist

 

[Arc]

Appreciate your kind words Arc

Good to know

Great job as usual Archie. You are one talented artist

Thanks Stephen If I do have some talents, nothing would be possible without my teacher PooManUK, who taught me all the details of designing

 

[Bongo]

Can somebody make me a new sig? My current sig says Power User and I have been upgraded to Seven Pro.

I will try one ... give me some time .
EDIT : Well, here it goes ... let me know if you want any changes etc
Preview :
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That is awesome Archie!

An appreciation from you means a big one now

Blush blush blush

Not needed at all. I have seen the entire way you crossed with your designing abilities. From the very noobish stuff to the perfect things of these days. Your hardwork is highly appreciated by me, coz only talent cannot do it so fast.

Just keep it up.

 

[Britton30]

My brothers and sisters in art, you all do such good work! If one day I can be half as good.....wait I am half as good. One third.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

My brothers and sisters in art, you all do such good work! If one day I can be half as good.....wait I am half as good. One third.

Gary,
Which half?
Is your cup half full or half empty?
THW

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

An addition to LADYPINKtomato1's rotation

KoolKat hi.... these are beautiful.. love it ..
I'll be changeing in a few minutes.. as soon as I can get there.
I have it saved..
Thanks so very much..

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Someone in this Forum made this lovely Sig for me awhile back.. I've saved it all wrong..
with the size showing.
If you still have this would you please post it once again for me to save correctly ?
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See the black size bar underneath it ??
My apology for living on the learning curve....

 

[Athene]

For windude99 - tried out the water drops effect for the first time after seeing it in several sigs

 

[windude99]

Thanks to everyone that have made me new sigs! I think that arc's one will be the one used for right now. Thanks to all of the amazing artists here! You all are much better than I am witht my art teacher helping me lol.

 

[Tekno Venus]

For windude99 - tried out the water drops effect for the first time after seeing it in several sigs

Great job. How did you do those water droplets though? They look really good.

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

Someone in this Forum made this lovely Sig for me awhile back.. I've saved it all wrong..
with the size showing.
If you still have this would you please post it once again for me to save correctly ?
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See the black size bar underneath it ??
My apology for living on the learning curve....

LADYPINKtomato1 I am searching for the original post too and will post a link to it if I find it.

Edit: I Just read Athenes post at #841 pointing to creator and location of LPT's Sig