Ireland_Rules Graphic Thread - Requests On!

[Ireland_Rule]

I started making sigs earlier on today in Photoshop and i am quite pleased at how they come out. I made the Afridi one because he's one of my faves and the Bell one for a friend, please rate/bash, any constructive criticism is welcome and if somebody wants to request (i doubt it) go for it.

Afridi Sig:

Bell Sig:

 

[Karachi Xpress]

Really nice stuff there! Do u have the Afridi cutout??

 

[Ireland_Rule]

There you go.

Credit to hassan for the cut out.

 

[Karachi Xpress]

Oh...Thanx!

 

[H0wZ4T!]

I'll give you something to do. How about a nice Lou Vincent sig?

 

[Cricketman]

TOP!
Brill start mate, absolutly awesome. Great work!

 

[thesweepmaster]

Great start mate but are you going to make any with Ireland players on

 

[Ireland_Rule]

Yes i will try Botha and Johnston a bit later on and will do the Vincent request too.

 

[hassan]

Its a decent start mate keep going... and gradually move onto a little advacned stuff.. Well done

Oh jus a lil tip... Duplicate your main pic so you have two copies then on the top copy put Gaussian Blur on it of about 5px and set the blending mode to overlay.

 

[Ireland_Rule]

That's the Vincent one, if i'm honest i don't really like it as i coudln't cut it very well and got fustrated so just used the whole pictures as a base and tried my best.

 

[H0wZ4T!]

Nice stuff for my request. Remember to stroke the text and add a border! Good try though.

 

[Ireland_Rule]

Updated Vincent sig, i stroked the text. I already had a border but because it's black you can't really see it.

 

[H0wZ4T!]

That's much better. It makes the font stand out more. Congrats.

 

[Ireland_Rule]

Thanks, do you know where i can get pre-made backgrounds from?

 

[Saltires]

I don't think that there are any pre-made backgrounds around. I would send you some of mine but a lot of sig-making is making the BGs so it would help your skill to make some of your own. A good simple BG is if you start with a white BG and put black brushes on it until its mostly black and then start putting white brushes on top of them. Then use Hue/Saturation (remember to tick the 'colourize' box) to add a colour. You could also try Filter>>Render>>clouds to get a base for a BG and brush on top of that. Basically get some good brushes (search DeviantArt) and just mess around with the filters and effects. Nice start mate, looking good

EDIT: This website is also alright: http://www.visualdesigncore.com/tutorials/photoshop/