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Scrab 06-7-2009 11:00 AM

My First Signature :P.
 


I made this in gimp using a tutorial I found, this was the first time I've used GIMP other than to shrink a .GIF.

So, what do you guys think? Personally, I think the colours are too bright and they should be dimmed a little or darkened, the yellow stands out a bit. I'm not sure.

Feel free to give constructive criticism..

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Quigly 06-7-2009 11:04 AM

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For some reason I don't think the text is the greatest choice but that just might be my personal preference. Other than that, for your first time, it looks great.

Keep experimenting with different techniques (I wouldn't know any specifics, I don't use Gimp.) and post some more stuff that you come up with.

Scrab 06-7-2009 11:13 AM

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Definitely, this took suprisingly quicker than you might think, the Brush Set I used is spectacular, I'll definitely be messing around with it quite a bit.

Also, yeah I can't really find good fonts for some reason, any ideas of where I can find some?

makdaddy 06-7-2009 11:42 AM

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http://1001freefonts.com/

Scrab 06-7-2009 11:44 AM

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Ah thanks. I knew there were good font sites but I wasn't sure from a graphical designers' point of view which was actually good, if you know what I mean.

I've seen your work makdaddy, I like it ;)

chidori! 06-7-2009 12:29 PM

Re: My First Signature :P.
 
its awesome for your 1st but for the future use .png format

Scrab 06-7-2009 12:50 PM

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Ah, I will.

I haven't been sitting idle from the time I've made this thread btw, I'm in the middle of making another signature, the only thing left is the text.

But it looks horrid if I put it on, it's still something I'm learning.

Here's the current Sig without the text, I wanted to put "scrab" on



And I'm also concerned about Link, I want to put a gaussian blur on him or smoothen out his edges but I don't know how :(

Spenner 06-7-2009 01:35 PM

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I wouldn't blur him- get a selection around him and feather the edges (to about 4ish pixels).

Scrab 06-7-2009 01:51 PM

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Done, this is the result -


Spenner 06-7-2009 02:43 PM

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much better.

Syhto 06-7-2009 02:48 PM

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dafont.com

Scrab 06-7-2009 02:57 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Syhto (Post 3099071)
dafont.com

Oooh, has a much nicer layout than 1001 fonts.

I urge anyone who can't afford Photoshop or who think it's too hard to download GIMP. It's free, it's simple, it's awesome. If you can't learn it, you're doing something wrong.

Of course, you can't just expect to open it and make a masterpiece, you have to download Brushes, like the sig I just made, the background of that was made with a brush pattern and the Tech effects, like the lines and stuff were from a different brush. There are THOUSANDS of brushes, perhaps 100,000's.

:]

richyrich55 06-7-2009 03:31 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by makdaddy (Post 3098960)


Also, www.dafont.com

who_cares973 06-7-2009 03:33 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Syhto (Post 3099071)
dafont.com

Quote:

Originally Posted by richyrich55 (Post 3099104)



i got the dafont torrent 8)

mnnicol 06-7-2009 03:36 PM

Re: My First Signature :P.
 
Yeah, dafont is a great website. Lots of good looking fonts can be found there.

Also, great job for your first sig. I'm really liking the colours. As you progress, you'll learn all about blending, lighting, depth, etc. Have fun :)

Scrab 06-7-2009 04:12 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mnnicol (Post 3099108)
Also, great job for your first sig. I'm really liking the colours. As you progress, you'll learn all about blending, lighting, depth, etc. Have fun :)

Thanks, yeah this is the first time I've ever shown any enthusiasm for Graphical Design before and usually I just feel like doing something and say I'm going to commit to something but I never do :(.

Quote:

Originally Posted by who_cares973 (Post 3099106)
i got the dafont torrent 8)

I'll check it out now.

;)

P.S. : Did you know that having mass amounts of fonts is one of the top causes of Windows Slowdowns?

I've got enough ram to handle it though.

dean_machine 06-7-2009 07:06 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrab (Post 3099138)
P.S. : Did you know that having mass amounts of fonts is one of the top causes of Windows Slowdowns?

I've got enough ram to handle it though.

Is that for programs that loads fonts or just everything in windows in general?

Scrab 06-7-2009 07:15 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dean_machine (Post 3099313)
Is that for programs that loads fonts or just everything in windows in general?

I'm not sure, I read it somewhere but it didn't say anything about programs, just slowdowns.

I think it meant slowdowns in loading, since it has to load loads of fonts.

richyrich55 06-7-2009 11:41 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by who_cares973 (Post 3099106)
i got the dafont torrent 8)

Sh*t I didn't even see syhto...

At least I made my link clickable :P

-KIDTHONG- 06-7-2009 11:57 PM

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Nevermind.


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