Okay, this is my first attempt at a signature pic. Tell me what you think.

I think it really boring and way to big.. I can't see your name onit very well haha, i would say good start but its a poor start im sorry.

here is a resized one:

Very poor job. There is basically no effects that i see that you have added to the render. All i see that you have done is placed a render and added a radial background ( i think. Then possibly smudged the background a little)

In my opinion this is not a sig. Just look at tutorials and play around with say spatter effects etc.

http://www.sigtutorials.com/

Wat? I didn't understand half of that.

there are some things you want to think about while making a good sig
lighting, depth blending, colours, flow and focal.

Check out this tutorial:
http://gfxbb.deviantart.com/art/Basic-Sig-...ements-91647487

and I've got 5 psd packs of signatures if oyu want to take a look, just dont rip them
get 'em here
http://gfxbb.deviantart.com/

Thanks, what part is he talking about in the tutorial when he is talking about making the render blend?

in photoshop, there are extra tools you can use when creating siggies. i think thats what he means by render. like an effect.

Still think its too big, look at the links Hendo posted they are very helpful, and try to look for tutorials on how to do a good background and text effects etc..
Good Site
http://www.good-tutorials.com/

Oky sorry for those of you who dont know what a render is in sig creation. I know Hendo does. A render is simply an image IE Cloud from final fantasy cut out. Thats it. Go to planet render and see for your self. I usually render my own images etc. By using the pen tool. I use the pen tool in actually everything i do.

AS to L. Kaiserblazer Yes there is tools in adobe photoshop that is called Render. Which is used for clouds . etc effects. I wasnt refering to this. But yeah you are right

Ok when someone creates a sig i automatically assume they know the technical term for almost everything. NExt time i wont be so

Anyway i will be doing tutorials very soon. One of them is how to create a logo such as this

flyoy and hendo: thanks for the sites, they are useful. I will need to look into them more.

Day two of messing with gimp gives me this:



I used the advice from your tutorial, hendo and added some blurring and darkness around the corners to give it some depth.

What do you guys think?

here is one edited according to trippin's advice:



theraptor

Not bad try adding like a splater effect you know like broken glass effect

thats one hell of a logo flyboy! amazing