Calintz's Graphic Designs

[G_G]

Those are all excellent. Still love the pointless the most

acutally I love the Submit one the most its freaking awesome!!!!!

Way to go Calintz love them all.

[Calintz]

Thank you very much Game_Guy ...
Any suggestions on how I can improve anything anyone??

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New signature up. 'Day at the Beach'
As it is the rough copy, I need some tips now . There are a couple noticeable errors right from the start though, like the cut-off. I will work on these issues asap, but in the meantime, let me know what you think XD.

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In case you didn't know ... the same style was incorporated into 'Day at the Beach' as was originally introduced by 'Pointless.'
The new signature is actually taking the old's place.

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I have posted the 1st update to 'Day at the Beach'

[King Munkey]

Day at the Beach is hot.

Yea great stuff though. I need to try some signatures of my own. I think I may just go do that now.

[Landith]

I agree with Munkey!

"Day at the Beach" is looking really... well 

I can't wait to see the finished product.
Good work Cal :3
Your starting to get better!

[Calintz]

Haha thanks guys ... I live for the support.
Now I have a question ... Which of these two is better??

** Nevermind XD - It's already been decided ... Thanks WcW

[fugibo]

Second. Might be better if you gave it some flame-like stuff, similar to in the first one. But other than that, very much better.

[Calintz]

Alright, thank you WcW ... I have an idea .

[Starrodkirby86]

Oh? You're finally deciding to merge the text in with the picture?

Good for you. Now that you have done something like that, you should try creating very different effects to match the atmosphere you are aiming it for. This can include blending the text within the picture, such as what you are doing.

[Calintz]

i've been trying hard to do that, but i cant fully blend text yet ... I haven't figured out how to ... I am working on it though

[Starrodkirby86]

I finally decided to see your One-Shot signature. It's way better than before; your skill is increasing tremendously. The text however is way too hard to read. Please change it in future versions~.

[Calintz]

Thank you Starrod ...
I will see what I can do about the text ...

Do you have any suggestions??

[Starrodkirby86]

Don't just leave it as a gradient with similar colors. Add some outside border with it more. Don't hesitate to duplicate the layer and play with some layer blending effects.

Those are some basic suggestions on my end.

[Calintz]

What exactly do you mean by border on text!!??

[King Munkey]

The outline of it.

[Calintz]

Well, I normally add a stroke, but in this case, I just used a glow.

[Starrodkirby86]

Use the Stroke Blending Effect for a border-like look. Some cool effect you can do with the Stroke is have it Embossed with the Emboss effect there (Just set it to Stroke Emboss). :3

Don't limit yourself to just Blending Options with your text. I don't have any uploaded image that shows me going beyond with the text except for this one (Which was uploaded around mid 2008):

Spoiler: ShowHide

By this, be creative with your duplicates. Notice on the background here, I rotated them like heck while adding some opacity changes.

[Calintz]

Hmm ...
I will give it a shot.

In the meantime, I was working on a remaster of the one shot.
By now, it should be up

[King Munkey]

The text is still kinda hard to see. I think a stroke may make it look a little easier to read.

[Calintz]

But the stroke removes the gradient...

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EUREKA!! I have found a viable solution

[Starrodkirby86]

Make it 1-2 points big. Make it transparent by a bit or change the layer effects. You don't need to go all cookie cutter now, just choose whatever variety of choices would work.

Or...

You can take my advice for that text and duplicate it, then work around with that. Just do what you can with tools you have. Go for it.