First Photoshop Sig

[kyrr]

So I'm going to school to become a web designer/developer type person. My husband lovingly decided to scour the internet for the CS3 suite for me at the lowest cost humanly possible.My first foray into it is photoshop since I took a basic class for that already and I figure a lot of the free graphic manipulators are somewhat based on it.So below is my first sig using it. Lemme know whatcha think. My goal is to make an animated one eventually.

[Cheesyfish]

i like it very much, especially for a first time sig. one thing i found difficult about it though is i didnt see the text instantly and just saw a big open space

[[BiOHaZaRd]]

That is a nice looking sig for a first one. I studied myself in computer graphics and i aint that bad with photoshop.First thing your closecut is well executed and looks smooth, maybe a little feather around the one with less opacity would be nice (his arm looks edgy a bit but still looks nice)  The typo is nice looking, i only thing that it is too much on the edge of the pic. Maybe like move it a bit inside and leave a lil border around and maybe a little drop shadow would make it more visible. (i agree with cheesyfish's comment about visibility) Though if you want to add like your class/server/guild info on your sig u might have to change the disposition but in overall i like your sig <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[kyrr]

Thanks for the replies. I figured out how to download brushes and patterns. So I tried a sig for my dirge.<img src="http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m191/Bluberry_Cixia/kealasig.jpg" alt="" border="0" />I availed myself of a few tutorials laying around here.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Beckah]

Looks good! <img src="/smilies/283a16da79f3aa23fe1025c96295f04f.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[[BiOHaZaRd]]

Wow that 2nd sig of yours looks really nice<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/e8a506dc4ad763aca51bec4ca7dc8560.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />! The color gives a nice render.Though i think you made a typo it should be: Extraordinaire and not Extrodinaire <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />

[Seagoat]

You've got a great start here.  <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  Practice makes perfect!

[kyrr]

Bah! missed an a in there!Thanks everyone!Edit:  This stuff's addictive! I made a new toon just to play around with screenies/sigs. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/499fd50bc713bfcdf2ab5a23c00c2d62.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />Original (cut out of screenie)<img src="http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m191/Bluberry_Cixia/zoraoriginal.jpg" alt="" border="0" />Touched up:<img src="http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m191/Bluberry_Cixia/zora.jpg" alt="" border="0" />Resulting in:<img src="http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m191/Bluberry_Cixia/zorasig.jpg" alt="" border="0" />Sooooooo addictive!  My poor husband saw me searching for a graphics tablet and just rolled his eyes at me.  <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/97ada74b88049a6d50a6ed40898a03d7.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />