1st Sig - That render could be sharpen a bit. The text is tough to see, so make it a different color or move it to a more visible spot. A background like that is weird, especially the part near the render that looks like a flower or something. Remove the flower thing, and decrease the spikes; the spikes adds a great deal to the background, however, it isn't necessarilly good. Why is there a rainbow-like colors near the bottom of the sig? Really gave me a hard time to enjoy the background as a whole. On the plus side, it looks like a grunge background and you have the right ideas going. Just remember to not add so much randomness to the background, otherwise it'll completely threw a viewer's sight. I like the little grids you set up though! :D 2nd Sig - Not a whole lot of changes, other than that it's sharpened - a lot. The render is nearly perfect making it look like it's staring into the woods or something like that since you could see some trees or so. The BG itself is way too sharpened. You put it with too much details. Again, the random color of the rainbow at the bottom of the sig, ugh. Text is seeable, but it's not that clear so put it at the bottom-left since it's all white/blue there. Remember the little grids I told ya' I like? It doesn't work when it's sharpen, sorry! Comments - It looks like to me that you're going for a tree BG, look up some tuts' on making trees or download some tree brushes. Make it shine at the top near the render so it'll give the background a dark feeling (the render itself is a remininsces of darkness itself with the choice of colors you blend onto it) and a point of where the sun's at. Make it blueish, the background; work with the trees, shine it up, make it look like you, as the render at a place that's all beauty yet dark but shiny at some parts. ;) This is of course assuming you're going for some trees in the background. Don't forget to dodge the necessary parts of the sig to lighting it up like the sun hit there, whilst burn to make it look dark nearly! Even the render itself, could use a little bit of dodge since it's a tad bit dark. Some things you can do is colorize some of the parts, with the pen tool. You can stroke the selection with black or something to make it stand out more, or create some nifty stuff. Remember, anything overdo isn't always necessarilly a good thing. Since the render isn't all colorful, don't make the background all colorful! Make it fit, but you're trying to get the render to be visible, so atleast stroke it up a bit or use a brighter color to blend it (your case, dark blue? Go for sky blue). The text always need a work on, and I can't stress enough on it. Make some paths like a rectangle at the lower corner of the sig, and put your text there so atleast it'll be a bit more visible if that's what you have to do! #1 Rule - Always keep your original contents as .xcf (GIMP) or .psd (PhotoShop) so you can always go back to the layers to learn, and fix up the mistakes, if any, that you don't particuarly are fond of now.
i messed up alot and i ddint notice them until you pointed them out the rainbow colors i have no clue where they came from and i wasnt really going for a tree look but now that u mention it it kinda does look like trees and i no i sharpened it too much that was by accident i might be able to fix that
You need to work on the text. Try a diffrent font. Also, your trying to make it blend way to much. It's a bit hard to tell the focal from the background. You need to add more effects. Throw some brushes in there and lighten it up.
try and blend it a bit lighter, and try a diffrent font, it could use a few more effects to make it a bit brighter.
