This is my first original sig attempt, (discounting tutorials) using a FF render.


Waddayah think? I wasn't sure on teh pixel size...

It's 50 pixels too tall, the text is probably the better point of the sig, but you need to work on colour coordination. Try using colours sampled from the main focal point for the background, rather than just a similar-ish colour. Follow more tutorials, and keep making them.

What program do you use?

Gimp.

And I think your right. Although there isn't much I can do to change that, since I merged all the layers down (trying to get the right amount of shadow) a silly mistake I know. For the pixel size, I'm sure I can just resize the one layer. Which is probably the only good thing that came out of merging all.

So your saying use more colours, specifically, ones from the render? Will work on another sig, this time with more colours (from the render).

Man, yesterday it took me about two and a half hours, just to make that pic. And it's not even decent. Damn. Oh well, font took about half an hour of messing around with.

It's not bad for your first attempt. Mine was much worse and mine are still pretty bad. You'll get better, and don't merge layers unless you have to, haha.

I forgot to mention that for your first attempt without a tut it's quite impresive. Don't worry about how long they're taking you, the time taken to make them is irrelevant, some of mine take 20 mins, some take 3 hours, it depends entirely upon what i'm trying to make and if I know how to make it beforehand, or if I have to improvise during creation.

Incidentally, regardin resizing, you don't have to merge all the layers to resize the image. Image > Adjust image size. then if need be Image > Fit canvas to layers.

The names might be slightly wrong, i's been a while since I used GIMP (Still on v. 2.4.1, I believe the latest version is 2.6.3).

I kinda semi-lied in the fashion of the elves when I say I didn't follow a tut. I didn't follow any tutorials, but rather, had about five open at once, and just used a bit here, and a bit there. (Although no tutorials for font, I chose that font out of a website, and only help I needed was to find the 'text' button lol).

Originally I was going to create my own render, but I thought that the result I produced wasn't quite right for the colour scheme.

Thanks for the image resizing tip, while you gave me the wrong buttons , it still helped me realize my resizing mistake earlier (I somehow linked height to width, so it would keep the same shape it had before, just make it smaller so the hxw ratio was the same).

Hmm.

Ok, now imma go create another sig, and work on manipulating different layers and colour schemes...that fit with the render .