Critique this sig in progress.

[Thorn]

I love the render. Great pic.

The colours are pretty cool.

Btw I just saw this.


That is INCREDIBLE. THat is SO good. I love it.

[Raebus]

To be honest, most of them are too big, for me anyway. Good work though, Love the renders and backgrounds.

[Thorn]

To be honest, most of them are too big, for me anyway. Good work though, Love the renders and backgrounds.

He has a point. Some people like small ones, some like big ones. I like small-medium. I only like big if its like REALLY good. Try some small ones. Say....between my current sig size, and raebus.

[ShunNakamura]

I tend to make the size based on the image. It just depends on what details I want and how spacy I want them.

This next one is going to be mucho smaller. The image I used for the render(had to cut it...I hate cuting) was like 80px tall or something. Tiny as can be. As it was I had a hard time getting it in that size of sig. I cleaned it up and tried to smooth the pixelation from size increase the best I could.

[Thorn]

Yeh thats about the size I like. That's pretty good, with some nice text to boot.

[Owen Macwere]

Hmm, you need big renders.
I like the purple one, purple is my favorite colour. and the text isn't bad, stop saying that, I like them, and about the size you are right, somertimes we can't work on larger or smaller sizes, like me I can only work on 450x150 pxl, if I make smaller or bigger, it'll look bad.
anyway, these are so nice, cool beans.

[ShunNakamura]

This one did NOT come out the way I wished it to. Not sure if that makes it bad(which is way I am posting it). I guess that is what I get for making a sig at 4AM in the morning.

Crap... that is why I don't like cutting my own renders..... looks like I missed a bit on the image on the left(the only one I cut myself in this sig).

[Owen Macwere]

Shun, this sig is cool, Hmmmm... but why don't you use only one render at a time, I like using one render it makes the sig less busy and more focused, that's just me though.
I don't think you messed cutting that image, it looks cool to me, nice work Shun.

[ShunNakamura]

Shun, this sig is cool, Hmmmm... but why don't you use only one render at a time, I like using one render it makes the sig less busy and more focused,

I am that way to much of the time. However, I have been trying to branch off and get better all around. I am the type of person that believes you should be able to do at the least a bit of everything(part of the reason why I work in 4 different programs at times for my sigs).

Anyways I think I did much better on the many images one sig deal this time.

turned out lighter than I had planned, but that isn't too bad. One thing that gots me is I am not likely the light blue border I gave it.

[Thorn]

It's quite nice, the big tiger face is great render. But theres just 2 problems. The text is impossible to read. I know everyone critizied your previous text, so you probally tried somthing different. Don't use this, I can in no way read it.

The other is that the border of the renders seems to be poorly cut. THe one you've posted here is fine, nice and smoothe. But the one if your sig looks edgy.

How'd that happen?

[ShunNakamura]

The quality difference was because I had to save it as a gif for the size req on this board. I have never been able to smooth gif's edges adequetly. And for only 1 board I am not willing to spend the time trying. For anything but animation PNG is far superior to Gif.

I think the big problem with the text is I over did it with the effects on a thin text. That and the bit under the title(the words in quotes) was a really nasty font when it comes to readibility normally... but I thought it had the anime feel, and that quote isn't 100% needed to be readable.

[Thorn]

Fair enough.

[ShunNakamura]

I decided to see what it would look like if I took the title from the title screen in the anime and used it instead of my own text in that sig. No go, no matter what I did it just didn't look right to me.

However it had given me an idea for a new sig.

Now tell me if you see any difference in quality. If you don't see any difference I'll shift this one into my sig.

[Thorn]

0 difference in quality. As for the sig itself, thats "quality". Hehe. Yeh its a nice signature. Granted the text is slightly hard to read towards the bottom, the font is quite cool.

Quite nice. I've got no complaints about you using it as your sig.

[ShunNakamura]

0 difference in quality.

Alright then. set as sig. Sometimes I can see a difference between png and jpg(particular if it isn't a 100 quality jpg). However, I didn't see any this time and just wandered if it was cause my eyes were tired at the time.

Granted the text is slightly hard to read towards the bottom, the font is quite cool.

I attempted to make it more readable a comple times, but any time I did it would detract from the overall appearance. And I really wanted to make it look similar to the text I cut from the anime.

I may play with it a bit more later(I may try to make it into a webpage banner, it doesn't look bad when stretched to 500'ish pixels wide and it would make a good banner for a fanpage I think). And one of the issues that is on my to solve list when/if I work on it is to play more with the text's readability.