Critique this sig in progress.

[ShunNakamura]

ok,ok. just thought to help. anyway I always like the render to be shown clearly.
and Shun, these are alot better, I like their soft edges.

Likely just a difference for style. I think I generally would aggree with you[mostly cause my eyes can't always pick them out if they aren't clear], but this sig I think works without it being shown as clearly.

The softer edges are mostly thanks to your tutorial you pointed me out to :P, I just couldn't sharpen without doing something to an extreme(either too blurry or too sharp).

The new one is better if you ask me. I like that signature a lot. Its bloody/dark, and its got a hooded guy with a sword. I like how he pops out from the background, because of the shadow behind his sword.

I like the new one to, but I will wait til all the balots come in(I use multiple forums so there are a few regulars I am waiting for comments from yet); before I set it down and clean up the extras of all the versions. My sig folder for it is huge.

The drop shadow on his sword was a last minute thing I did when I decided to see what drop shaddow would do to the text. I thought it looked better then without it so I kept it.

Thanks for what did the popping out.. I couldn't figure it out. But you are right it is the shadow doing it. Hmm... gotta love it when things come together(even if by accident[assuming you learn from it]).


Now time to play with the Ancient one abit more.

Heh, just did some quick fiddling with it.

The old one(for comparisons sake).

The newer version that was the result of my 'playing'.

---EDIT---
An individual suggested I try the Gimp.

Well I got Gimp installed, and I can say popping up all those different items on my task bar is VERY annoying. However, I got a sig I did 90% in The Gimp(I used Photoshop for the stroke(the stroke on the Gimp wasn't doing squat for me) and for the final transparancy when I decided even after stroking it still needed more).

Something real simple to just adjust to the Gimp.

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Edit---

I saw an anime with a picture I just couldn't ignore(I so wanted to make a sig from it). Anyways I tried to pull it from the movie file. But I couldn't get anything good. Colors were all blended into one another to the point where I couldn't get a clean cut. I did my best an then said screw it and black and whited the image to make the color discrepancies invisible. I had fun with this one dispite the fact that it likely isn't the best around.