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Not_Maindric
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 02:32 Edited at: 7th Feb 2008 02:33
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I just made it. I like it. What you think?



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DB PROgrammer
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 04:37
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Kinda hard to read. But I don't think I should complain I can hardly even read the text on my sig, lol.


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Keo C
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 05:20
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There's text in your sig DB PROgramer?


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DB PROgrammer
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 07:36
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Yea? My name. I can't tell if thats a joke or not


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Keo C
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Posted: 7th Feb 2008 21:07
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Tehe. I was kidding.


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MonoCoder
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 00:40
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Your sig looks cheap. The spacing of the letters, blurring of said text, and the background upon which the aforementioned characters sit do nothing for it.

Ahem.

Dim the background a little, and push the text into the corner, applying a strong motion blur to the leftmost character, and a weaker blur to the others for consistency.

Narrow the image size a little and it should look nice.

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Not_Maindric
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Posted: 8th Feb 2008 22:38
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Quote: "Your sig looks cheap. The spacing of the letters, blurring of said text, and the background upon which the aforementioned characters sit do nothing for it.

Ahem.

Dim the background a little, and push the text into the corner, applying a strong motion blur to the leftmost character, and a weaker blur to the others for consistency.

Narrow the image size a little and it should look nice."



FINALLY! I real comment. Almost everyone I showed said basically all the same thing, but never gave me any real feedback.. I wasn't going for anything flashy, I just wanted better than my old, which I believe I got. Also, what else can you expect from 10-15 minutes from a relitively new to graphics person? Thanks for the feedback. (Also, I have to have it at that res for my own reasons, not about to go to detail.)

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Virtual Nomad
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Posted: 9th Feb 2008 08:00
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maindric,

the actual text is nearly "non-existant". i'm no graphics pro at all but when i look at graphics (mine or otherwise), i glance at it first. if something catches my eye, i look at it again and for longer to see what's really going on there. glancing at yours, the neon "electric clouds/smoke puff" outlines really pop and demand attention (i really like those. almost looks like "soft" magma ). at "first glance", i thought the green blurs were gaseous clouds. heh. if it wasnt for the yellow/red, i wouldn't have looked twice and noticed the green was actually text. one thing that i think would help a lot is to clean the centers of the letters out completely. make it a solid black, or atleast take any green out of it (examining the graphic, i don't see any transparency/background showing through. removing the green and either leaving solid black with crisp outlines on the inside, or allowing the background to show through, again, removing the green inside, leaving a crisp outline), would help a lot.

my 2 cents

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Not_Maindric
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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 22:22
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Honestly, I tried all black, it was allot worse than this. It is kind of an oarnageish color, which is close to red, so I chose to make green so that it would be complomentery to the oarnge part, so it is readable. If I made it black, you would not see any words what so ever. and a solid green did not look good to me. So, I did that. I just basicaly guassion blured the text uner it, and noised and motion blured it for the streaks. I was hoping people would like it. But no reall good comments yet. Also, the last comment, not sure if I should take that bad or good or both. i think both. 0.o

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BiggAdd
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Posted: 12th Feb 2008 00:34 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2008 17:16
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Using contrasting colours like you have done there can make things look tacky.
The letters are spaced way to far apart.
The blur lines make the text harder to read.
The "lava" background looks generated which again always makes things look tacky!

examples:
Bad


Good


The same colour scheme and subtle background makes the second image look better. Also adding highlights and shadows the text stands out!

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Xenocythe
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Posted: 12th Feb 2008 04:44
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I'm going to attempt a shiny sig later tomorrow.
This is some good advice.


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A Tea Spoon
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Posted: 12th Feb 2008 06:28
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i cant even see the text on DBProgramers sig and Maindrics, but im color blind so what do i know. i go for neon glowy sigs, i can make some if you want

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 19:39
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a tea spoon - don't you know about the forum's rule on Sig size? that sig you have uploaded for maindric is way too tall.


thanks to deathead for the sig! please Click on it!
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A Tea Spoon
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2008 06:54 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2008 06:55
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and it takes 3 seconds to edit it in paint to cut off the top and bottom



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Deathead
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Posted: 5th Mar 2008 23:57 Edited at: 24th Apr 2008 15:20
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I must agree with Bigadd.
I mean my sig took me acouple of minutes but I'm quite happy with it.ed

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Venge
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Posted: 8th Mar 2008 21:29
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My sig only took a few minutes also...Then again I didn't draw it

There are over 100 billion galaxies in our observable universe.

Feel small yet?
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BMacZero
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Posted: 8th Mar 2008 22:40
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I liked your old one better

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Venge
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Posted: 9th Mar 2008 15:46
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Well my old one got old. Since I haven't finished (started) working on my next model, I changed it to this 23 million-year-old image of Whirlpool M51.

There are over 100 billion galaxies in our observable universe, each containing up to a trillion stars.

Feeling small yet?
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David Gervais
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Posted: 11th Mar 2008 18:39
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Testing to see if my new sig gets shown..

Cheers!

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BMacZero
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Posted: 12th Mar 2008 04:38
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Cool sig, David. Nice to see you around

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Tinyschu
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Posted: 26th Mar 2008 06:27
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I think that you should pick another color tone than red and green because red and green are hard to see together, especially color blind people. To them the green letters would not appear to them. Other than that, I think it looks cool.

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A Tea Spoon
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Posted: 24th Apr 2008 07:15
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yep. i had to look hard to see the text

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Not_Maindric
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Posted: 12th May 2008 05:06
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I know this is pretty old, but I remade it, and I like the out come. =D

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BMacZero
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Posted: 12th May 2008 05:18
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Definitely better than the old one

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