Heyoooo, I just learned some cool stuff from green fairy, and I tryed it out! Here's some stuff I came up with.

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All made today, give your thoughts please!

Note: You may use these pictures for signates "Exepct the one with my name, and picture 3, these 2 are NOT to be used. Others you may use but please don't claim credit for em.

Thanks!

Well, for a beginner, surely not bad

Next time, try to blend that plastic wrap filter out more so it 'erases' parts of the filter, many, many people are familiar with photoshop, and they all can see you used plastic wrap.., just try by doing more layers, start your layers small(meaning not too much effects/brushing per layer) and slowly build it up, it gives that great 'deep look' wich looks way more professional

what you could try with one of these pics, is either use gaussian blur(blur>guassian blur) and blur it a bit, you can also try a wind effect (stylize>wind), i think it would add some good effects to it.

Also try to choose and blend the font better, it looks...as it was placed on it with ducktape

Do keep trying, because you seem to pick up things quick

P.S. Love the style too

Course, I'd do that, if I knew how *cough* I used plastic wrap becuz that's what I'm learning how to do, I've been following green fairies tutorials but the things you mentions aren't tought in them.

I've love to try em though.

Thanks for your comment

HmmZ pretty much nailed it. Try for some more colour contrasts and stuff also. A popular filter which is commonly used for background is clouds... so go Filter > Render > Clouds. What you get is quite easy to change and manipulate to suit your purposes.

Gradients are good for colour variation also, so perhaps give them a try.

Those images are basically 100% clouds. I just Liquifide them. And if you remember, these are my first photoshop pieces of work, so I'm not sure how to do Gradients. I just made a new one, I did what HmmZ said and added more layers. This one is made of about 4 layers.



Comments?

Seems like you're just following tutorials, which is good, but try to get a little more familiar with Photoshop, so instead of just mimicing tutorials, you can modify the techniques you learn from them and add in some of your own flavor to produce a better looking sig.

I just recently was playing around in Photoshop, and learned how to do some interesting vector shapes, so I added those to my previous knowledge and my sigs are even better (like the one in my sig, or Cool Freakers, or HmmZ. I made all those.). It's about bringing more to the table, not just taking what's already there.

But, that said, nice attempts for a beginner. Keep trying.

Alright...I know I'm following tutorials, but if I don't know anything about it, just messing with it isn't ganna get me anywhere. I need a place to start, and tutorials seem good to me.

Thanks for your comment, just please remember, I'm not as good as you guys, I'm just starting. Hence I need a place to start AT.

There isnt really such a things as being good at photoshop, basicly anyone with some spare time and a good eye for graphics could make great things with it, if he knows how to use the renders, effects, tools etc. I dont really have an eye for graphics, hence whetever I try what comes out usally isn't as nice as I wanted it to be ...