Crysis and Half Life 2 signatures

[ohmaigawd]

I finally managed to make my Photoshop work so after a months break I made some new sigs





Ok, I don't really like the first one but it still looks decent imo.

I tried to achieve nice lightning and depth in the second one. How should I change it to make it look more natural?

Constructive criticism would be really appreciated.

[Villadsen]

The first one lacks a bit of the fundamental aspects of a signature, but you could easily correct that, if you still had the .psd.

In the second one you managed to get the lighting, focal and depth fairly good. Some reposition of the render and text would make it follow the rules of thirds better, but looking apart from that, I think it's fairly good.
One thing I just had to criticize though, is the use of topaz on the signature. Topaz can be good to some extent, but it's just so easy to overuse. So I would suggest removing the topaz completely or only have a minimum amount of it. I actually kinda like it on the background though, maybe a bit less there. But the render is just ruined by it, in my opinion.

Correct some minor things, and both signatures can turn out pretty good.

[shadowsx]

the crysis one is good but could use a few changes to the lighting otherwise good job.

keep up the work, good to see more activity in this section

[Gawdlaw]

I think that the Crysis one will look better if you made the signature's hight a little smaller. And the first one is a little emty imo, there's so much more that you can do with it to make it look better. But next to that I do like the text and I think that you're making some good progress

[ohmaigawd]

Thanks for the comments
Ok I got rid of topaz on the render but kept it on the background. I also made some minor changes to lightning.

Villadsen where should I put the render to follow rule of thirds better? I tried to reposition it but I didn't find any spots where it looked better.
Gawdlaw I made some attempts to lower it atleast to 400x140 and I somehow always failed to recreate the background - it was all to "crowded".

Ok here is my second attempt:



Lol I had to upload this sig like 10 times - every time I uploaded it I found a minor mistake and had to correct it ^^

[Villadsen]

That looks much better in my opinion. Sadly, the background still would do better with a little less topaz, especially after you removed it from the render.

[Gawdlaw]

Still looks better imo =)

[ohmaigawd]

Still looks better imo =)

I can't believe how I always complicate things - I tried several different positions but I never just cut the highest part ^^

You were right, its better now

[Reflection]

Still looks better imo =)

Definitely. Too much space above one's head is never good, whether it is in photography or digital art. It is better to trim of parts of the head than to leave too much space.