My Second try at Gfx. All my banners will be posted... here!

[chester]

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l182/Pokelives/Pwned.gif

What do you think? I know, it isn't anything special, but yeah, it was my second try at Gfx...

[Arielle]

You need to make sure we can read the text well; the "betcha" is hard to read on the red. :x And I don't think it needs to be so big if that's the only text. But that's just me...

[chester]

Lol, I forgot I made that already. I'm getting better, and I'll make another one soon

[chester]

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l182/Pokelives/MetagrossBanner.gif

[Arielle]

Pretty basic. Try making bigger text and maybe a background. Also, some of the areas are a bit blurry, I don't like it.

[The Smore]

The Metacross (gross ?) one isn't good.

Gradient + Render

Which program are you using?

I don't know about other programs (although this will probly transfer over) go to Layer > Layer Style > Stroke, make it one pixel and black (or other colour, black usually works (unless your text is black =0)) then fiddle with the transparency.

I'm not sure how you've made the background, but a good basic way to do it is to make your render cover a large portion of your sig, and then use filters (again this is for PS, not sure about others). Set the layer to a good style, (Overlay works a lot) then do it again, in a different place, with a different filter.

Another great tip is to use layer adjustements Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color balance is good. This'll change the color of your signature to however you want it. I'd recommend it only after you get the background sorted, as unless there's substantial background it won't have much affect.

Good luck =)
<(^.^<)

[Sylux]

They're Ok, but could use a lot of work.

[Raz]

There..ok.

[Magne]

What Smore said. But I have some things to say too.

Repeat of what Smore said:What program do you use?

First of all, learn to WBG things. Either Magic Eraser the B/W background, or you can use the Magic Wand - Click the background - Right click - Similar - Delete.

Then, your backgrounds. I suggest this:
Get your render - Copy that layer and move it until it covers the entire document
Filter - Brush Strokes - Spatter
Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur @ 0.5 px.
At least get that down.

Then get your render layer, make it visible, copy it, and move it to the top. Guassian Blur @ 3 px.

Copy your render layer once again, and then move it to the top.

There you're done. For more, read more tutorials. I just gave you a simple background and some tips on rendering your stock.