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using BrokenSaint's recent tutorial, i made this sig which i call "The Professional". focal is Jason Statham, one of my favorite British actors. this was one of my first times using clipping masks to any great extent, and i think i accomplished what i was after, though it also showed me how much room there is to improve.

c/c and ratings pl0x :)



edit: fena used the same tut and came out with something totally different. rate his as well!!

i like thisone too, but like fena's better :p it's not so messy :p

7/10

maybe i'll try making one aswell with his tut xD and comapre it to you guys

Like this one better then fenas (sorry fena) because of the colours and you have a pretty fixed focal, flow is good in this sig to.

Things you need to work on.

Text: Text effekt is not the issue here but the blending of the text is. Try to place the text near your focalpoint and maybe put it behind Jason.

Lighting: Easy, just find the spot for your lightsource brush some white and smudge (you dont have to smudge if you want but it makes it look more natural.

Depth: You have managed to give the sig some depth but there should be even more, if you put the text behind Jason it would take care some of the depth issues but still, try do some more bluring on the backround to make him stand out more.

Think im done

the only thing i don't like is the floating headpieces..

Looks nice, agree with 1211 im not keen on that piece of head above the text, but meh just my opinion.
overall nice sig.

Wow. I actually like your Sig more than mine, because, like 0l3n said, it has a clear focal point. I love the text as well, and how you worked in the crosshair along with your text.

The only slight and subtle criticism that I have is this:



The duplicated fraction head just looks a little strange to me. That's about it for me. I honestly like it, and how the blurry left side blends into the sharp, crisp colors of the right side, and the upper right hand corner.

8.5/10. The only reason why it isn't higher is because of my personal preference - I've always liked my Sigs to be a little more abstract, is all.


/Off-topic: I think that Jason Statham's a great actor too, although I didn't know his name until now. I saw him in the 2006 remake of The Italian Job, where he was Handsome Rob, and he did a sexy, sexy job, lol.

yah everyone seems to have issues w/ my headpiece lol. i'll edit it out tomorrow and see how people like it then.

<OT>Jason Statham is awesome. i loved him in Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, and in both Transporter movies. he's in incredible shape for someone pushing 40, and he does all his own stunts, which i admire. i was gonna use a screen from Snatch, my favorite movie of all time, but this one, from a recent film that i can't remember the name of, jumped out at me. if you haven't seen Snatch, DO IT. do not pass go, do not collect $200, go immediately to your local video emporium or favorite torrent site and GET IT.</OT>

sui

go watch Crank

ontopic: love the sig style, love both outcomes of BrokenSaint's tut.
i'd gp for an 8/10.

ya crank is a good movie

heyyyy that's the flick the sig image is taken from, thanks guys.

original:



edit:


no headpiece XD

improvement? i think so.


i ran into the problem i expected to run into when i started using so many "Apply Image" commands. i mentioned it in brokensaint's tut thread... once you apply image, you lose all control over those lower layers. if you wanna change something that is on one of them, you can't.

i used the clone stamp tool for the first time to take pieces of the image from elsewhere and overwrtite the head fragment. handy tool.

is the headpiece to the right also supposed to be there?

and i thought it was about the movie "The Professional" aka Leon.

no one commented on that one and said they were bothered by it, so i left it in.

...

wasnt Leon that french dude? eh.. Jean Reno or something?

<sigh>

Looking good! And yea Crank is a cool movie ^^

edit: lol, yea woops ^^

Jean Reno was Leon
Luc was the Director

Yup, Luc Besson.

Leon was a great movie too...dam. *searches on r4v3n*

War owns all his other movies.