Is my Sig Any Good......at all?

[Roxas]

I actually made this in The Gimp.......any suggestions??

[snotskie]

give the text some drop shadow
possibly a really dark shade of red
that way the text has something behind it to make it pop from the bg

oh, and gimp FTW!

[Skillz3905™]

i like it might want to put something in the empty space but not too much the empty space almost looks good.

[Roxas]

Rebel: thanks.....ill concider it

snotskie: ok...lol...im a newb at making sigs and GIMP and all that so wut exactly do you mean by drop shadow?

[snotskie]

use shift+o to select the choose by color tool
make sure your on your text layer (that says your name)
click the transparent background
press ctrl+i to invert the selection, and make a new layer under the text layer
fill the selecion in with w/e color you want as your shadow
now press ctrl+a to select th entire layer, and blur it to your liking.
now set the opacity for that layer to 0, and slowly raise it up until it looks just right

[Roxas]

thanks.....ill take a look at it tomorrow....kinda tired here in the US lol......thanks again

EDIT:
if i wanted to do this in Photoshop cs3 could i do the same things and commands that you said?

[bobbotheclown]

annoyingish looking

[Axel]

Anacletus! Don't double post! I told you that like last week! But i do like the sig the background looks cool.

[Roxas]

ok never mind...sorry for like triple posting but i found it out on my own......tell me how it looks

[snotskie]

yeah, the name stands out now, see how it gives it that "pop" i was talkin bout

oh, and imma fix ur dp for you

[Roxas]

thanks snotskie....for both things and yes it does make it pop...good tip
ill def. remember it when i make more.