Stokie4Life's First Sig - FMFormation.net - Football Manager

Stokie4Life · 17-03-08, 03:59 PM

My Sig's, don't forget I am still quite new to Photoshop and below sig's are different sizes and styles but for my future ones I will be sticking to doing Sig's sizes like the last one.

1st try

2nd try

3rd try

4th Try ( After alot of practice )

Feel free to use the Drogba one

Feel Free to use the Barcelona Sig

I know there is a faint black line on the Drogba sig, I may do some requests if people like the latest one.

If you want me to do a sig ( they will be similar to the last two ) follow the form below:

Latest Try

Also I will do other sports people if you do not want football sig's.

Team:
Player:
Badge:
Writing:

If you don't want a Badge on just put N/A

**oO SioS Oo** · 17-03-08, 04:38 PM

Not bad for a firt try m8 ;) keep it up

i would mayb try adding a border to it ;)

the font could need some work... try dafont.com m8i great fonts over there ;)

not sure about the brushes question, i suppose its just practice m8i, head over to deviantART for some cool brushes though :P

keep it up m8, practice makes better

**Hartynips** · 20-03-08, 07:46 AM

good ideas there mate, it will come with practice dont worry. simple ones sometimes look better, they have greater visual impact, especially with subtle touches.

Stokie4Life · 20-03-08, 08:55 PM

Hardynips, Yeah I have noticed the sig's with a single image either centered or on either side seem to make it have a better impact, but sooner or later those are the kind of Sig's I want to do eventually.Hopefully like you said with practice I might be able to do that.

SioS thank you for the info about the fonts and the Brushes it helped me out loads.

woodsy · 21-03-08, 07:28 AM

nice sigs, bit more practice and u'll be like dargo at GFX :D

**Bfc-Fan** · 21-03-08, 07:51 AM

yeh there looking pretty decent

**oO SioS Oo** · 21-03-08, 10:26 AM

Getting there m8i, just keep trying ;)

Stokie4Life · 02-04-08, 05:06 PM

I have added a fourth sig which I feel is a improvement than previous ones.Also I did it by myself from scratch.

People can use the Drogba sig if they wish to.

**liveru** · 02-04-08, 05:09 PM

Drogba one looks good mate. Probably the best one you've done.

Keep up the good work.

**oO SioS Oo** · 02-04-08, 06:05 PM

DD signature is much better m8i, could try blending in the render more if possible, personally i always find that the hardest part

overall good job, keep it up ;)

Stokie4Life · 03-04-08, 12:10 AM

Liveru cheers,Im glad that you liked it.

SioS,Yeah I tryed to blend it in a bit but when I was doing the blending it was going too transparent so I left it.But I did try again though on the Barcelona one.

apthered · 04-04-08, 12:22 AM

good going so far for your first few
the drogba and barca ones are naturally much better, good to see you experimenting more and trying different things. your getting a lot better...
kiu!

rpashley · 24-04-08, 07:54 PM

Love your Barcelona sig could I request you do a similar one to that for Aston Villa and include Laursen, Barry, Young and Carew?

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klatz · 25-04-08, 10:30 AM

nice work. keep it up

**Bozza** · 25-04-08, 11:49 AM

They do look good mate. I would suggest practice practice and practice more. And try new things... read tutorials...

Stokie4Life · 25-04-08, 03:27 PM

rpashley, yeah I can do that for you and hopefully it will be finished either tomorrow or Sunday.

Klatz,Thanks Im glad you liked it and I will do that Sig you requested via PM.

Bozza,At the moment Im practicing Sprite sigs and Smudge techniques useing various tutorials aswell on other sites with pictures/videos plus Manipulation sigs ( I think thats what there called ).I do tend to try different stlye of sigs cause Im the kind of person who gets bored easily and will go back to them after a bit but I do agree with the practice bit though and thats what Im doing, and Im happy that you like them.

EDIT: Klatz and rpashley, I was hoping to post the sigs today at the latest but it wont be untill tuesday.

TheoWalcott · 30-04-08, 04:50 PM

Awesome Drogba Sig , Love It Maybe You Should Try Make Some More Like It , If Yiu Get Time Like To See A Walcott One

KUTGW

xxxxblake · 05-05-08, 10:48 AM

They are looking good mate, keep up the good work. Definitely a lot better than what I made when I was starting out with Photoshop.

For me, the text just doesn't quite look right. When you're reasonably new to graphics, plain basic text always works the best. Even something like Times New Roman can work well and effectively. Fancy writing on signatures often ruins it - simple is better.
Some things you might want to try with your text that I did for most of my graphics - make the first name smaller and in lower case, and then create a new text box, make it in upper case and bigger and put the last name there. You can fiddle around with the move tool to get the text working nicely. You can also fiddle around with the opacity, and if you wish - sometimes making font 72 text and setting it to overlay doesn't look too shocking if you position it right.

There are quite a few simple things you can do to help your render blend in better. You've probably already heard of this but it's what I consistently use - simply duplicating the render (the main player) and then using the filter effect Blur > Gaussian Blur at 4 pixels. Then, simply move the blurred layer underneath the main one to create a simple little glow.

There is another way to do it as well, although a bit trickier, but it helps it blend in a lot better. Select the lasso tool, and draw a little circle next to the player's arm or something similar.

Example:

Then, hit right click > Feather, set it to 5-10 pixels (5 will get a more thorough blend whilst 10 is quicker) and then just keep hitting delete until you have it how you want.

Also, try to stay out of logos when you are new to graphics, it's not always the best idea.

Other than that, keep up the great work, hopefully you learned something from this.