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The only reason that i post this, is that i'll like to have my 1000'th post in my beloved thread. about 30% of my posts is in here, two years of sig-making happiness is lying inside. I have changed a lot in my style of sigs, since my first post on page 11, or so. But the two main reasons to my sigmaking are Wander and Astra, who both encouraged me, and tought me about Photoshop.

And this post also goes to the kind-hearted persons, who took time to rate my sigs, and i know, i sometimes get frenzy, and post 40 sigs at a time, (whitch made it even harder to rate due the heavy load).

But before i push the send button, i'll like to thank Astra again. Thanks a lot, dude! you actually gave me a future job.

~Daichi

Daichi wrote:The only reason that i post this, is that i'll like to have my 1000'th post in my beloved thread. about 30% of my posts is in here, two years of sig-making happiness is lying inside. I have changed a lot in my style of sigs, since my first post on page 11, or so. But the two main reasons to my sigmaking are Wander and Astra, who both encouraged me, and tought me about Photoshop.

And this post also goes to the kind-hearted persons, who took time to rate my sigs, and i know, i sometimes get frenzy, and post 40 sigs at a time, (whitch made it even harder to rate due the heavy load).

But before i push the send button, i'll like to thank Astra again. Thanks a lot, dude! you actually gave me a future job.

~Daichi

Quite the 1000th post Daichi. But the thanks isn't necessary. I'm here to help any one who needs it. You improved quite a lot, so great job Daichi.

Anywho, back to the rating.

ToD:
sig: Very nice sig Alkaid...She improving quite a lot as well. 9/10 the blur on his side is very fitting for the atmosphere.

avi:
9/10 a bit monochromatic, but points for Sora, and the pose is awesome.

i'd like this old one rated...i haven't made much since i started tutorials.



it's just a quick remake of one i made a while ago. this one's fairly old as well though.

Avatar: 9/10 I really like it. It's got that clear effect I like. The only thing keeping it away from a 10/10 is a decent border and it being square. Still I like it.
Sig: 9/10 again. I like that type of style for sigs. You have pure black border. I believe a lighter 1 pixel border with some opacity might do better. That's just me. I also think more should be happening on the right side of the sig. You have so much space for something.

Cruel Ruin wrote:Avatar: 9/10 I really like it. It's got that clear effect I like. The only thing keeping it away from a 10/10 is a decent border and it being square. Still I like it.
Sig: 9/10 again. I like that type of style for sigs. You have pure black border. I believe a lighter 1 pixel border with some opacity might do better. That's just me. I also think more should be happening on the right side of the sig. You have so much space for something.

Cruel Ruin...i haven't seen you in forever...the very creator of this topic. where have you been? nice to see you back anyways.

Sig: 9/10 looks good, i like the colors, and Tsubasa was aweosme. though it seems like mainly brushes and a render, try some C4Ds ^_~
Avi: 8/10 Same as the signature for the most part, but i don't like the white. try taking a color from the render, lightening it up a bit, then using a grad map set to color at about 30-45% opacity.

Thanks for your input...my old avi, was the same picture, but it was a square border, and i didn't like the looks, so i decided to take a piece out XD

anywho, the sig you rated was a remake of:



less contrasted colors was my main goal. and my borders are a 1 px black line on top, and a 1 px black line on the bottom. - always. i'm not a fan of the full -all the way around the sig- border.

anywho...i'd also like this signature rated, though disregard the crappy text...i fixed it when i made the tutorial for it (click the link in my signature)

Astra wrote:Cruel Ruin...i haven't seen you in forever...the very creator of this topic. where have you been? nice to see you back anyways.

Yeah, I've been stalking the forums every now and then. I haven't been up to much. Been watching tons of anime and going to college. Thanks for remembering me and the advice also. I liked the avatar, but I did want to try something different on it. Tsubasa was awesome! You kept up with Tokyo Revelations?

First sig: 9.5/10. Anyways, I like that sig you started with much better. The text makes it feel more complete. The colors I like still. Only thing I really say improve on is the text just a bit.

Second sig: 10/10. Saber wins it for me. I also like the blue in it. Good job!

Cruel Rain:
Sig - 8/10
avatar - 5/10
The signature is good, but...hmm..seems to be missing something.

I'm back because I want to know what people think of my new one :3 I used Astra's tutorial for this one.
Again - don't rate the avatar ;3 it's not mine.

well.....

sig: 8.5/10

a tad too big, and overcontrasted..... well... i can't see what of the tuts is used... anyways. the font/Text is superb, and the render itself...

Just much empty space, snt small stuff....

EDIT: OMG!? why is .PNG soooooo jumpy on Ie.....

Daichi:
Avi: I can't see anything wrong with it. 10/10
Sig: Maybe a little less lighting on his face? 9/10

New sig. Please go easy I plated with thi one most I just make it but I played around so please be easy. I'm still one of the beginners.

Adept wrote:Daichi:
Avi: I can't see anything wrong with it. 10/10
Sig: Maybe a little less lighting on his face? 9/10

New sig. Please go easy I plated with thi one most I just make it but I played around so please be easy. I'm still one of the beginners.

well, because you're a beginner, we shal jugde harder. the mre qritiqe, the better outcome, right?

awy: aww..... try with matching colours..... 4/10
Sig: too much void areas. the C4D is supossed to be a SFX, not the background itself. and the font is crappy. 5/10

oh. and both is suffering from major grainniness

randomly jumpin' in~~~

Adept, save your work as a .PNG, you're saving them as .Jpg, and it's killing the quality...literally, killing it, not to mention it's grainy from the start. also, aside from the fact that you need to find good quality renders, you should place them as an actual focal, that sig isn't very good mainly because the focal the the messed up C4D, you want the render to be the focal, to place the render in the middle...also try a smaller canvas size.

Daichi, you can use a C4D as a background, but it's recommended you put your render over it, and using some clipping masks. i've made a few sigs in that style.

daichi:
avi: a bit dark for my tastes, and the scanlines need their opacity lowered...8/10
sig: Gaara's face is much to bright, but your backgrounds are looking better...9/10

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on a side note...i haven't made a signature in ages, so i've got nothing of mine for anyone to rate, i've moved on to a different field of graphics, so for the next person who posts, either rate Daichi's signature and avi, or if you rate mine, all sig credit goes to A_L_H, and my avi, i know is horrible, it was a half-fast one i threw together in about 3 minutes because i was bored.

Daichi wrote:

Adept wrote:Daichi:
Avi: I can't see anything wrong with it. 10/10
Sig: Maybe a little less lighting on his face? 9/10

New sig. Please go easy I plated with thi one most I just make it but I played around so please be easy. I'm still one of the beginners.

well, because you're a beginner, we shal jugde harder. the mre qritiqe, the better outcome, right?

awy: aww..... try with matching colours..... 4/10
Sig: too much void areas. the C4D is supossed to be a SFX, not the background itself. and the font is crappy. 5/10

oh. and both is suffering from major grainniness

I see your point here I didn't really think about the Avi's background I just kinda through it together. Also I might know why its kinda grainny and thats cause I but Edge Blur on max (11/11) so that might be why.

Astra wrote:randomly jumpin' in~~~

Adept, save your work as a .PNG, you're saving them as .Jpg, and it's killing the quality...literally, killing it, not to mention it's grainy from the start. also, aside from the fact that you need to find good quality renders, you should place them as an actual focal, that sig isn't very good mainly because the focal the the messed up C4D, you want the render to be the focal, to place the render in the middle...also try a smaller canvas size.

Again C4D is not what I use I use a drawing program and I make the pictures how I want. However I am hoping to get C4D or whatever its upgrade is. Oh and I can save them as .PNG I just thought .jpg was better but ok.

Adept wrote: Again C4D is not what I use I use a drawing program and I make the pictures how I want. However I am hoping to get C4D or whatever its upgrade is. Oh and I can save them as .PNG I just thought .jpg was better but ok.

C4D is a 3D rendering program.
this is a C4D render:
okay. now i can see who is in your sig. 6.7/10 for removed grainess. i just kinda dislike colour scheme...

avy: same.-

I personally like brushes over C4Ds.

Avatar: 9/10 - a little too dark. Color burn would be nice.
Sig: 8/10 - the sig is too bright. Color burn would be nice again. The pic also is somewhat pixelated since it's an anime screenshot I believe. I would prefer you shrink the pic to make it more clearer.

What's so special about C4Ds? Like Cruely said, I prefer brushes, C4Ds stand out too much unless you blend them really well.

Avatar: 5/10 looks like a bad manga scan. Wat.
Sig: 7/10 looks nice, can't really see anything wrong with it.

Minus points for Tsubasa. CARDCAPTOR SAKURA IS SUPERIOR.

C4Ds add a lot more effects then brushes, and look a LOT less monochromatic, especially if it's a good C4D. In my opinion...i don't like renders blended by brushes, i personally like renders blending by smudging, because it looks a lot less choppy, and sharp.

anyways.

Mellow:
Avi: i like the border you used, and the style, the colors are also nice, but the white is a bit strong, and very bright - 8/10
Sig: although i usually like tech brushes, i think you overused them in this signature...also, the left seems WAY too bright...though you're one of like....4 or 5 people here that actually knows how to place a render, so points for that....like i said, i'm not a brush-blended fan, and thus the character's arm looks kinda strange and not fitting, mainly because your sig's lack of depth. sorry if this is offensive to you, but i think you should expand on your style, since it hasn't changed much since i first started making signatures about a year ago. 8/10

Cruel Ruin wrote:I personally like brushes over C4Ds.

Avatar: 9/10 - a little too dark. Color burn would be nice.
Sig: 8/10 - the sig is too bright. Color burn would be nice again. The pic also is somewhat pixelated since it's an anime screenshot I believe. I would prefer you shrink the pic to make it more clearer.

Pixelated? PIXELATED?! PIXELATED?! PIXELATED?! i have a full-HDmonitor? dont'ca think i would notice?
If you mean the scanlines, maybe. try go on a higher screen ressolution....

and that pic is a high-quality dvd screenshot. cut down to 30% of original size!?

astra: voted
Cruel-Ruin: voted
Mellow: Didn't vote yet.
Adept: voted like 5 times


Mellow:

Astra's right. the sig is waaaaaaaay to bright. but looks good to me.
8.5/10

awy: 7/10. it just dosen't look good to my eyes.

Daichi wrote: Adept: voted like 5 times

Huh?

What do you think I made it awhile ago..