Show Off yr Sigs

[Tribble]

Oh wow BG - what a busy sig

[LinkX]

@Acid. nice work on the new sig

@OTC. awesomeness on the HG:L one. the second doesn't look right though, could just be my preference. i couldn't find the subject of your picture at first, only after i started typing this did i see it. i added a Sharpen filter and it looked much better or maybe you could just sharpen the surfer dude. otherwise nice work. also i love that border on nr.2
btw could you pm me some of the gfx sites you're at, havn't been to any in quite a long while so i've lost or forgotten the addy's

my 2c

[Firestrm_ZA]

courtesy of stuart, i present my sig

[WiK1d]

WAFFLES!

[Stuart]

Lol, at least resize it before you tell everyone who did it dude!

[Tribble]

@Acid. nice work on the new sig

@OTC. awesomeness on the HG:L one. the second doesn't look right though, could just be my preference. i couldn't find the subject of your picture at first, only after i started typing this did i see it. i added a Sharpen filter and it looked much better or maybe you could just sharpen the surfer dude. otherwise nice work. also i love that border on nr.2
btw could you pm me some of the gfx sites you're at, havn't been to any in quite a long while so i've lost or forgotten the addy's

my 2c

Nooooooooooo Linky - you are making me hungry. Really hard to stick to a diet when I have to look at waffles Brilliant sig and avvie.

[LinkX]

WAFFLES!

Nooooooooooo Linky - you are making me hungry. Really hard to stick to a diet when I have to look at waffles Brilliant sig and avvie.

haha ty, just practicing some randomness before i try a real avvie and sig again - the effects of an expired WoW subscription..

[badguy]

Oh wow BG - what a busy sig

My sig turn out bad to many stuff i want in it lol

[I34z1k]

Less is more

[Stuart]

Less is more

+1

[LinkX]

Less is more

+1

+2

EDIT: first time i read your new sig Stuart Little, funny stuff

[I34z1k]

Sigh, it's only like 3 of us left Who else was real good @ sigs?

[Stuart]

So get Photoshop (or even Gimp) and get cracking, dude!

[WiK1d]

How's my avatar

Anyways, badguy, why is your name located in your sig thrice?

[LinkX]

me likes B&W images like that so for me its nice

Sigh, it's only like 3 of us left Who else was real good @ sigs?

Off-The-Chart
I34z1k
WiK1d

thats all i can remember for here
thats the list of gfx peoples who dont just slap text onto an image, but take a subject and build around it from scratch

so few, we need more

[I34z1k]

Ah, forgot about him

Ye, we gotta get some new blood in hahah

[LinkX]

yep, but first i gotta find me some waffles

[badguy]

How's my avatar

Anyways, badguy, why is your name located in your sig thrice?

I hate this to much i wane get in my sig, all of my all sig was good but yea ..........

[WiK1d]

MY SIG IS A EPIC FAIL

Spot the irony

[badguy]

Back to my old sig lol

[Off-The-Chart]

k so surfer dude was a failure...

nothing new there as I was doing something I had no idea what it was...

[LinkX]

nothing new there as I was doing something I had no idea what it was...

haha i know that feeling too
happens in irl too -_-

[Stuart]

EDIT: first time i read your new sig Stuart Little, funny stuff

Okay, so I was playing around a little. Tell me now, there seems to be a lot of talk here about blending. What method(s) of blending are generally the best, or is it entirely a case by case thing? So look at what I was playing with, and tell me how I could improve the blending of Rayne into the background.

[Tribble]

Oooh looking good Stuart - can't help you with the blending though. I would use a shadow or halo effect - but I am not good with avvies and sigs

[Off-The-Chart]

would say it is a case by case thing...

most people like not having the render "pop" out and thus do some blending...

I usually just duplicate the render a few times, setting each layer to whichever blending option looks nicest, and then eventually I might just leave the final duplicated render alone but lower the opacity quite a bit...

other methods would be to use a soft or even hard brush and erase edges here and there...

another method would be to feather the edges, though that tends to give you a more "solid" visible edge still...

here is one which I made while teaching some1 basics of smudging and yes I know, the blending is bit strong, where I used that feather technique and duplicate renders: