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u cant se the border well because of the light BG of the forum :P you would see it better on a dark forum (like planet renders)

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it does have a border - white. about 2 px. how do the colours not match? O.o the only ones i see are reds and whites. (and greys and blacks for shadows) i was trying someting diff for the text and its better than the other attempt i made focal point is the middlish? idk. i wasnt really caring too much about a focal point. i wanted people to look ati t and say 'thats a nice tag' next time whne u give C.C, please explain WHY 'the colours dont match' etc, and how i can make them so, otherwise its not constructive :thumbsup:

would you say its an abstract? hmm... id just call it a tag. abstract is a term thrown about in here for brushed tags and things that arent grunge / photomanip

no replies >.> jesus nobody seems to want to reply to this one. must be compelete bollocks. only got 2 replies on PR

id defo buy a tablet if i was u. and its jean gray not just pheonix btw ;O

very nice! sleek and professional looking. keep it up.

whats with the scratch white lines on her collar? and the hairs nice, then theres a big solid block of colour running right round it. EW! :thumbsup: fix them and it will be so much better

who cares! its a userbar. its fine :thumbsup:

oversatured means too colourful, its hard to explain. do a hue/saturation layer and put saturation full. then copy and paste the layer 10 times :P youll get an idea. glass filter - Filter > Distort > Glass the colours depend on what your looking for. if your going for reds i wouldnt have used that render as its a skin coloured / blue render. i suggest doing all your work, then choosing 2 colours ud like ur sig to have, make them into a gradient map and set it on Hue. lol :P its hard to explain what i mean 'lack of body' well... lets see.... in my tags i try to give it a feeling that its there, like... its in a room. hard to explain again. urs just looks like its sitting in the middle of random red stuff :P like i said its hard to explain.

only 1 version. not sure if im happy with this or not - i know the text is a bit hard to read but its staying :harhar: V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 comments?

i can see the glass filter in there ;O good at least u dont brush spam. the text is bad. the colours arent the best. oversaturated IMO. lack of body.

tell me a font ill change it :$ the boarder is fine 2 pxl top and bottom 1 pxle both sides im not good with text either so i cant advise :P id remove the illegible text - it doesnt suit more grungy/brushed sigs like this IMO. maybe add something around it, like... an ecplise going round it. i dont know - be creative. zoid, you might not like me because i say your tags are 'decent' and 'ok'. i rarely say a tag is good - i think you CAN be very very good, your just not exploring enough. be creative - try to make 4 or 5 tags a day, and try all sorts of new styles. C4D, smuding, typography, stock, render, w.e untill u find a style you know you are good at and confident with - but dont just do it all the time xD sadly i dont make that many tags anymore. i seem to have lost my 'artistic edge' and inspiration =( btw, i suggest leaving the text on for this forum, but try taking it off on a respectable GFX one - and get their 2 cents on both versions. and regarding the border, i suggest u try 2 solid black lines across the top and bottom. its a dark sig so it shuld be nice. like you have just now but without the sides - try it if nothing else, and if you dont like it thats your choice :

nah. unless theres lots of neg space in it like in this case i would put it away from the focal point and hide it somewhere in the BG. if its like this id leave ie textless (which is how i wear my sprite tag) but i dont trust this forum not to have rippers. on PR where i wear it, im confident in them that they WILL find a ripper if there is one. it depends on the forum as to if you can use text or not. sometimes not is the better looking option.

the contrast between the blurred effects round the sprite, and then the sharp sparkly bits around the focal area. the text is horrible btw. dont place it in the middle of the focal area! circled borders should be rounded up and shot. other than that its nice :P

text doesnt suit it at all. very dark and grungy. is it brushed? looks it. border isnt nice. i sugg doing something like the 1 with the border w/ the 3 circles xD tht was nice.

if i understand that right u made a program with a tut, and have no idea how to job, and are getting decent paY? grats :thumbsup:

explain more about what u mean by 'shapes' like arrows and sht? like on ur tag? it would make it look silly imo - its not tht kind of tag.. and why would i put more clipping masks on? O.o

and what do u mean by texture? it looks rather gritty and textured to me.

2 and 4 are the best IMO. but the text ruins them.

id say 1, maybe 2/10 for some of them. the rest are 0. whether u use paint.net or gimp or PS, it shouldnt matter. ive seen a guy with gimp out-do a guy with CS3.

not bad actually. the B,WnR go well together. a random dot has been considered abstract - get ur facts right. abstract is something that isnt normal, or something that is strange.

Ty btw i want comments - ive got decent ones on PR, but most of them are by complete newbs. if u think its bad tell me - and tell me how to improve it.

save it as a png - no quality loss and low file size.